What is Claude for Healthcare? Anthropic launches new AI tool to take on ChatGPT Health
Posted on: Jan 12, 2026 08:52 IST | Posted by: Livemint
anthropical has launched a young serve called Claude for health care which testament allow customers and healthcare providers to use Claude for medical purposes. The company has also launched new capabilities to Claude for life sciences, allowing the chatot to connect to more scientific platforms and provide support in areas like clinical trial management and regulatory operations.
The new features by Anthropic comes as there is a growing use of AI tools for healthcare while rival OpenAI also last week launched ChatGPT Health feature.
What is Anthropic offering?
Anthropic says it is adding several connectors to Claue in order to make healthcare information easier to find, access and understand. These connectors will allow users to pull information from ‘industry-standard systems and databases’.
Claude will be able to connect to Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Coverage Database, International Classification of Diseases, 10th Revision (ICD-10), National Provider Identifier Registry among other databases.
What can Claude for healthcare do?
Anthropic says Claude for healthcare can help provide meaninful support to healthcare startups building new products along with large enterprises to integrate AI more deeply into their products.
As for individuals, Anthropic says it is making it ‘easier for individuals to understand their health information and prepare for important medical conversations with clinicians.’ The new feature will allow Claude access to the lab results and health records of the users.
“When connected, Claude can summarize users’ medical history, explain test results in plain language, detect patterns across fitness and health metrics, and prepare questions for appointments. The aim is to make patients' conversations with doctors more productive, and to help users stay well-informed about their health.” the company said in a blogpost
The feature, however, is limited to users in the US and only to Claude Pro and Max plan subscribers. The company says New HealthEx and Function connectors are available to users in beta today and Apple Health and Android Health connectors will be rolling out to users in beta this week on both Claude iOS and Android apps.
"These integrations are private by design. Users can choose exactly the information they share with Claude, must explicitly opt-in to enable access, and can disconnect or edit Claude’s permissions at any time. We do not use users’ health data to train models." it added
The company also said that th
Claude is designed to include contextual disclaimers, acknowledge its uncertainty, and direct users to healthcare professionals for personalized guidance.
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