{"id":245422,"date":"2026-01-15T04:17:16","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T04:17:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/245422\/"},"modified":"2026-01-15T04:17:16","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T04:17:16","slug":"anthropic-announces-claude-for-healthcare-following-openais-chatgpt-health-reveal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/245422\/","title":{"rendered":"Anthropic announces Claude for Healthcare following OpenAI’s ChatGPT Health reveal"},"content":{"rendered":"

On the heels of OpenAI\u2019s ChatGPT Health<\/a> reveal, Anthropic announced<\/a> on Sunday that it\u2019s introducing Claude for Healthcare, a set of tools for providers, payers, and patients.<\/p>\n

Like ChatGPT Health, Claude for Healthcare will allow users to sync health data from their phones, smartwatches, and other platforms (both OpenAI and Anthropic have said that their models won\u2019t use this data for training). But Anthropic\u2019s product promises more sophistication than ChatGPT Health, which seems as though it will be more focused on a patient-side chat experience as it rolls out gradually.<\/p>\n

Though some industry professionals are concerned about the role of hallucination-prone LLMs<\/a> in offering clients medical advice, Anthropic\u2019s \u201cagent skills<\/a>\u201d seem promising.<\/p>\n

Claude has added what it calls \u201cconnectors\u201d to give the AI access to platforms and databases that can speed up research processes and report generation for payers and providers, including the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Coverage Database; the International Classification of Diseases, 10th Revision (ICD-10); the National Provider Identifier Standard; and PubMed.<\/p>\n

Anthropic explained in a blog post<\/a> that Claude for Health could use its connectors to speed up prior authorization review, the process in which a doctor must submit additional information to an insurance provider to see if it will cover a medication or treatment.<\/p>\n

\u201cClinicians often report spending more time on documentation and paperwork than actually seeing patients,\u201d Anthropic CPO Mike Krieger said in a presentation about the product.<\/p>\n

For doctors, submitting prior authorization documents is more of an administrative task than something that requires their specialized training and expertise. It\u2019s something that makes more sense to automate than the actual process of administering medical advice\u00a0\u2026 though Claude will do that as well.<\/p>\n

Techcrunch event<\/p>\n

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People are already relying on LLMs for medical advice. OpenAI said that 230 million people talk about their health with ChatGPT each week, and there\u2019s no doubt that Anthropic is observing that use case as well.<\/p>\n

Of course, both Anthropic and OpenAI warn consumers that they should see healthcare professionals for more reliable, tailored guidance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On the heels of OpenAI\u2019s ChatGPT Health reveal, Anthropic announced on Sunday that it\u2019s introducing Claude for Healthcare,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":245423,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[3673,4064,123574,103,397,396,61,60],"class_list":{"0":"post-245422","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-healthcare","8":"tag-anthropic","9":"tag-claude","10":"tag-claude-for-healthcare","11":"tag-health","12":"tag-health-care","13":"tag-healthcare","14":"tag-ie","15":"tag-ireland"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=245422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245422\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/245423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}