Anthropic launches Claude for Healthcare with connectors for providers and payers

On the heels of OpenAI’s ChatGPT Health reveal, Anthropic announced on Sunday that it is introducing Claude for Healthcare, a set of tools aimed at providers, payers and patients. Like ChatGPT Health, Claude for Healthcare will allow users to sync health data from phones, smartwatches and other platforms, and both OpenAI and Anthropic have said their models won’t use this data for training.

Anthropic’s product promises more sophistication than ChatGPT Health, which the outlet said seems as though it will be more focused on a patient-side chat experience as it rolls out gradually. Anthropic has added “agent skills” and what it calls “connectors” to give Claude access to platforms and databases that can speed research and report generation for payers and providers, including the CMS Coverage Database; ICD-10; the National Provider Identifier Standard; and PubMed.

Anthropic explained in a blog post that Claude for Health could use its connectors to speed up prior authorization review. “Clinicians often report spending more time on documentation and paperwork than actually seeing patients,” Anthropic CPO Mike Krieger said in a presentation about the product.

The piece added that submitting prior authorization documents is often an administrative task that makes more sense to automate, though Claude will offer medical advice as well. Some industry professionals are concerned about hallucination-prone large language models offering medical advice.

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