Anthropic Joins OpenAI's Push Into Health Care With New Claude Tools

Anthropic has launched a new suite of healthcare and life sciences features for its Claude AI platform, allowing users to securely share and analyze their health records to better understand their medical information. The rollout follows OpenAI’s recent introduction of ChatGPT Health, signaling an intensifying push by major AI companies into healthcare—a sector viewed as both a major opportunity and a high-stakes test for generative AI. Both platforms aim to personalize health conversations by integrating data from sources such as electronic health records and fitness apps, including Apple Health.

Claude’s new health record capabilities are available in beta for Pro and Max users in the U.S., with integrations for Apple Health and Android Health Connect also rolling out this week. Anthropic’s head of life sciences, Eric Kauderer-Abrams, said the tools are designed to help users navigate fragmented healthcare systems by consolidating medical, insurance, and personal health data into one interface, with Claude acting as a central “orchestrator.” The goal is to reduce the burden on individuals who often must piece together information from multiple providers and platforms on their own.

As AI tools increasingly enter healthcare, safety and privacy remain top concerns. Like OpenAI, Anthropic stressed that its health features are not intended for diagnosis or treatment but to help users understand information and identify patterns over time. The company said health data shared with Claude is not stored in long-term memory, not used for model training, and can be disconnected or edited by users at any time. Anthropic positions these safeguards as essential to building trust as AI becomes more deeply embedded in health-related decision support.

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