Claude just joined your healthcare team — and might be ready to help your doctor help you

• Anthropic's new Claude for Health platform can summarize your health data
• It can also analyze and explain medical test results in plain language
• Healthcare professionals can use Claude to speed up tasks like prior authorizations and claims appeals

Anthropic’s Claude AI chatbot is scrubbing into your medical care. The company has debuted a new initiative called Claude for Healthcare, and is inviting U.S. users to let their digital assistant peek under the hood of their personal health data. The AI can, with permission, look at lab tests, fitness metrics, and doctor appointment notes by connecting with platforms like HealthEx, Function, Apple Health, and Android Health Connect. The timing is notable, as it closely follows OpenAI's unveiling of ChatGPT Health and its somewhat similar provisions.

Essentially, Claude can act as a kind of translator for your bloodwork and medical history, as well as dive ...