Anthropic Chases OpenAI Into the AI Heath Arena
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Key Points:
- Anthropic has launched Claude for Healthcare, a HIPAA-compliant AI product designed to assist healthcare providers, insurers, and consumers by integrating large language models into regulated medical workflows.
- The new offering builds on Claude for Life Sciences and aims to reduce administrative burdens, improve understanding of medical information, and enhance clinical and patient support using the advanced Claude Opus 4.5 model.
- Claude now connects to key healthcare databases such as the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Coverage Database, ICD-10 coding data, and PubMed, enabling efficient information retrieval and support for prior authorization and reporting tasks.
- The company introduced customizable "Agent Skills" to streamline prior authorization and facilitate application development using FHIR, while also enabling US consumers to securely link their
