Anthropic strongly develops its health and life sciences offering, AI Companies are racing to integrate large language models more deeply into regulated medical workflows.
The company on Sunday announced Claude for Healthcare, a product that allows healthcare providers, insurers and consumers to use Claude for medical purposes through HIPAA-compliant infrastructure.
The launch builds on Anthropic’s earlier release, Claude for Life Sciences, focused on research and drug discovery, and reflects the company’s broader efforts to position its AI models as practical tools for regulated industries.
The move also highlights intensifying competition in AI in healthcare. OpenAI recently unveiled a rival product, and startups like Abridge and Sword Health have attracted multibillion-dollar valuations as investors pour money into AI tools for medicine.
Anthropic said Claude for Healthcare is designed to reduce administrative work and help clinicians and patients better understand medical information. The tools are powered by recent improvements to the company’s flagship model, Claude Opus 4.5which Anthropic says performs significantly better than previous versions on simulated medical and scientific tasks while showing fewer factual errors.
As healthcare expands, Claude can now connect directly to multiple industry-standard databases. These include the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Coverage Database, ICD-10 Medical Coding Data, the National Registry of Provider Identifiers, and the PubMed Biomedical Research Library. Anthropic said these connectors allow Claude to quickly surface relevant information, support prior authorization workflows, and help clinicians and administrators generate reports more efficiently.
The company is also introducing customizable “agent skills,” including sample tools to streamline prior authorization requests and help developers build applications using FHIR, the modern standard for exchanging health data between systems.
On the consumer side, Anthropic is rolling out integrations that allow U.S. subscribers to its Pro and Max plans to give Claude secure access to their personal health records. New connectors include HealthEx and Function Health, which launched in beta on Sunday. Apple HealthKit and Android Health Connect integrations are rolling out this week in beta via Claude’s mobile apps. Anthropic said the data accessed through these integrations is not stored in Claude’s memory or used to train its models.
Anthropic also expands Claude’s capabilities for life sciences customers, adding connectors to platforms such as Medidata, ClinicalTrials.gov and bioRxiv. New agent skills support tasks such as writing clinical trial protocols that meet FDA and NIH standards or monitoring trial performance.
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