SourceAdvancing Claude in healthcare and the life sciences \ Anthropic
Anthropic is expanding Claude's capabilities in healthcare and life sciences through the launch of Claude for Healthcare and new clinical trial and regulatory tools. These updates are supported by the Opus 4.5 model, which features improved performance in medical and scientific tasks.
Why it matters
These tools can reduce administrative burdens for clinicians and speed up prior authorization and regulatory processes, potentially getting patients access to care and new drugs faster. Additionally, individuals can use these features to better understand their personal health records.
The details
Life sciences expansions include connectors for Medidata, ClinicalTrials.gov, and the bioRxiv and medRxiv preprint servers. New Agent Skills support FHIR development and clinical trial protocol draft generation. Claude is available on AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft cloud services, and personal health data integrations are opt-in and not used for model training.
What's next
Apple Health and Android Health Connect integrations are rolling out in beta this week via Claude's iOS and Android apps.
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