Artificial intelligence company Anthropic has entered the healthcare technology market with the launch of a new suite of Claude-powered tools designed for patients, healthcare providers, insurers and pharmaceutical companies.
The new platform, called Claude for Healthcare, allows medical data to be analysed and used through integrations with certified health technology platforms, marking a major expansion of Anthropic’s AI offerings into clinical and life-science applications.
The platform is built on Anthropic’s latest large language model, Claude Opus 4.5, which the company says demonstrated stronger performance in real-world medical and scientific simulations compared with earlier versions. The tools are designed to support a wide range of healthcare workflows, including patient engagement, medical record analysis, claims processing, care coordination and clinical research.
The launch comes just days after rival OpenAI introduced ChatGPT for Health, highlighting growing competition among major AI developers to capture healthcare, one of the most commercially valuable and data-intensive industries. Healthcare has emerged as a key battleground for AI firms as hospitals, insurers and life-science companies increasingly turn to automation and data-driven tools to manage rising costs, staff shortages and growing patient volumes.
Under Claude for Healthcare, Anthropic has partnered with US-based HealthEx to enable patients to consolidate their medical records from more than 50,000 healthcare systems into a single interface. Using Claude’s chatbot, users can query their personal health information, test results and clinical history once their patient portals are connected. The system relies on Anthropic’s Model Context Protocol (MCP), an open standard that allows AI models to securely pull information from external medical databases in real time.
Anthropic has also introduced what it calls connectors, which allow Claude to integrate directly with healthcare platforms and databases. These connectors are designed to help providers automate prior authorisation requests, support insurance claims, triage patient messages and manage care coordination across multiple systems.
In addition to HealthEx, Anthropic has partnered with Function Health to allow users to schedule laboratory tests and receive AI-assisted interpretation of results. These services are currently available to paid Claude Pro and Max subscribers in the United States. The company has also begun rolling out beta integrations with Apple Health and Android Health Connect through its mobile applications.
To strengthen its medical and research capabilities, Claude has been connected to major healthcare and scientific databases, including the US Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Coverage Database, ICD-10, the National Provider Identifier Registry and PubMed. The AI can also access clinical trial repositories such as Medidata and ClinicalTrials.gov, preprint servers bioRxiv and medRxiv, and drug-discovery platforms including Open Targets and ChEMBL.
With Claude for Healthcare, Anthropic is positioning itself as a major player in medical AI, competing directly with OpenAI and other technology firms racing to become the foundational platforms for the next generation of digital healthcare.
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