Iris Coleman
Jan 12, 2026 23:54
Anthropic unveils Claude for Healthcare with HIPAA-compliant infrastructure and new life sciences connectors to CMS, Medidata, and ClinicalTrials.gov.
Anthropic has rolled out Claude for Healthcare, a HIPAA-ready AI product suite focusing on suppliers, payers, and sufferers—marking the corporate’s most important push into regulated medical functions. The January 11, 2026 announcement additionally expands Claude’s life sciences toolkit with new integrations for medical trials and regulatory workflows.
The healthcare bundle introduces direct connectors to the Facilities for Medicare & Medicaid Providers protection database, ICD-10 coding methods, and the Nationwide Supplier Identifier Registry. For suppliers, this implies Claude can now confirm protection necessities, assist prior authorization checks, and help with claims appeals by pulling information from industry-standard sources in actual time.
Prior authorization critiques—which might take hours and delay affected person care—signify a key use case. Claude can cross-reference CMS protection necessities towards affected person data, then suggest determinations with supporting documentation for human overview. The system additionally features a template-based prior authorization talent that organizations can customise to their particular insurance policies.
Private Well being Knowledge Entry
U.S. subscribers on Professional and Max plans can now join their private well being data to Claude by means of new HealthEx and Perform integrations. Apple Well being and Android Well being Join assist is rolling out this week through cell apps. When enabled, Claude can summarize medical historical past, clarify lab leads to plain language, and assist customers put together questions for physician appointments.
Anthropic emphasizes these integrations are opt-in solely, with customers controlling precisely what information Claude can entry. The corporate states it does not use well being information for mannequin coaching.
Life Sciences Growth
Constructing on its October 2025 Life Sciences launch, Anthropic added connectors to Medidata for medical trial information entry, ClinicalTrials.gov for drug pipeline info, and ToolUniverse for a library of over 600 vetted scientific instruments. Further integrations embrace bioRxiv, medRxiv, Open Targets, and ChEMBL.
New agent abilities goal medical trial protocol drafting—incorporating FDA and NIH necessities—plus regulatory submission preparation and bioinformatics workflows utilizing scVI-tools and Nextflow.
Enterprise Companions Sign Adoption
Sanofi confirmed Claude is “utilized by most Sanofians every day,” citing effectivity positive factors throughout their worth chain. Veeva described the partnership as enabling “industry-specific agentic AI” at scale, whereas Commure famous Claude powers ambient AI documentation for “tens of hundreds of thousands of appointments.”
The brand new options can be found to all Claude subscribers together with Professional, Max, Groups, and Enterprise tiers. Claude stays the one frontier mannequin obtainable throughout Amazon Bedrock, Google Cloud’s Vertex AI, and Microsoft Foundry—a distribution benefit that would speed up enterprise healthcare adoption as organizations consider AI distributors for medical workflows.
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