In October, we announced Claude for Life-Challenging Sciences, our latest step in making Claude a productive research partner for scientists and clinicians, and in helping Claude support those in industry who are bringing new scientific advancements to the public.
Now we are expanding that feature set in two ways:
- Claude for Health offers tools for healthcare providers, payers, and consumers to use Claude for medical purposes in a HIPAA-compliant manner.
- We are enhancing support for the life sciences by connecting Claude to more scientific platforms and helping in areas including clinical trial management and regulatory operations.
These features leverage recent improvements in Claude’s intelligence. These advancements are shown in medical and scientific task simulations. Claude Opus 4.5, our latest model, marks progress in real-world usefulness.
In addition to Opus 4.5, which extends thinking, it improves on earlier cloud models in producing correct answers on our suite of honesty evaluations, reflecting the progress we have made on factual hallucinations with these model improvements and our new tools. Any motor cloud is now dramatically more useful for real-world healthcare and life sciences tasks. Ultimately, it’s those real-world outcomes that have motivated our work. These tools can speed up prior authorization requests, enabling patients to receive life-saving care more quickly. Support patient care coordination to reduce pressure on clinicians’ time and expedite regulatory submissions so that more life-saving drugs can reach the market faster. We discuss the practical ways that CLOD can be used across these industries in more detail below.
Anthropic Healthcare AI is a suite of AI-based tools. These tools are designed to assist healthcare providers, payers, and patients. The launch coincides with the start of this year’s JPMorgan Health Care Conference.
The company’s HIPAA-compliant toolkit connects the Claude for Health AI Assistant to various repositories, making healthcare information easier to find, access, and understand.
The core of the new offering is Connectors. This tool links Claude for Health to data repositories such as the CMS coverage database and ICD-10.
Cloud for Health Cases launch follows OpenAI’s recent announcement of ChatGPT for Healthcare on 8th January. This similar toolkit is already being used at institutions such as Boston Children’s Hospital and Cedars Sinai Medical Center.
According to Anthropic’s platform announcement, the CMS Database Connector enables the cloud to verify local coverage requirements and support prior authorization checks. It is also designed to strengthen claims appeals. This aims to help Revenue Cycle Compliance and Patient-Facing Teams work more efficiently with Medicare Policy.
Connecting to ICD-10 lets the Claude for Health Assistant look up codes to support claim accuracy and billing.
Anthropic says linking Claude for Health to large databases speeds up reviews for payers and providers and supports claims appeals.
Cloud is designed to collate data, such as claims and reviews, to provide guidance on specific measures. For example, by connecting to the CMS coverage database, Claude can retrieve coverage requirements from CMS. Or, custom policies, check clinical criteria against patient records, and propose determinations with supporting materials for payer review.
Linking CLOD To Patient Health Records And Laboratory Results
Another tool in Anthropic’s Claude for Health Care Toolkit integrates the AI with patients’ supported health data records. Electronic health records provide them with insights from their health data through natural language conversations.
HealthX announced during JPM 2026 that it is the first consumer health tech code integration for Claude. Apple Health and Android Health Connect integrations will launch in beta this week. They will be available through the Claude iOS and Android apps.
Amol Awasare, Anthropic’s Product Lead, explained, “HealthX lets people bring their health records into a conversation with Claude. They can ask questions in simple language: What does this lab result mean? What should I bring up with my doctor? How has this number changed over time? They get answers based on their health history.”
Anthropic noted that this tool aligns with CMS’s initiatives to develop a more user-friendly healthcare ecosystem by linking the federal interoperability infrastructure directly to Claude for Health capabilities.
The leading marketing technology association (AdvaMed) expressed support for the initiative outlined by US Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., with CEO Scott Whitaker asserting that greater access to patients’ protected health information (PHI) would promote personalized, precise MedTech design, utilization, and care that patients deserve.
However, some observers have raised concerns about potential security risks if the CMS initiative is implemented too quickly, Life Sciences announced in October. The prior toolkit aims to increase cloud adoption among life sciences users. End-users include researchers, clinical coordinators, and regulatory affairs managers.
