New Delhi: Anthropic has recently unveiled its Claude for Healthcare, a latest offering that allows healthcare providers and users to apply its Claude chatbot to medical-related tasks. Claude for Healthcare can explain test reports filled with medical jargon in simpler terms and detect patterns across fitness and health metrics. It can also help users to prepare questions to ask during a doctor’s appointment. This move follows OpenAI’s introduction of ChatGPT Health last week. ChatGPT Health is a dedicated, health-focused experience within ChatGPT that combines personal health information with AI assistance.
Claude for Healthcare is not a separate application, but a set of healthcare-focused features added to Claude. These enable the AI to securely access trusted medical and insurance databases and use that information to answer questions or help with routine healthcare tasks. For hospitals and insurers, this means Claude can assist with things like checking whether a treatment is covered by insurance or preparing documents when a claim is rejected.
Claude for Healthcare also includes new health data connections for individual users, currently available in the US. Users who subscribe to Claude’s paid plans can choose to link their lab results or health records from services such as Apple Health or Android Health Connect. Anthropic stated that the users stay in complete control of their data. Access is optional, can be turned off at any time, and personal health information is not used to train Claude’s AI models.
