Anthropic Debuts HIPAA-Ready Claude for Care

Anthropic launches HIPAA-ready Claude for healthcare, adding medical database connectors and Apple Health exports as AI rivals race into clinics.

Anthropic rolls out HIPAA-ready Claude for healthcare

Anthropic is taking a bigger step into healthcare with a new Claude offering designed for HIPAA-compliant use cases involving patients and clinicians. The San Francisco-based AI company says the product is built to support hospitals, medical providers, and consumers who need to work with protected health information in regulated settings. The rollout also arrives as Anthropic is reportedly in funding discussions, putting added attention on how the company expands into high-value enterprise markets like healthcare.​

Built for clinical and life-science workflows

Alongside the healthcare push, Anthropic has added deeper life-sciences and research-oriented capabilities, including integrations that connect Claude to scientific and industry-standard reference sources. Reported connectors and databases include resources such as PubMed and the National Provider Identifier (NPI) Registry, and other healthcare reference standards used across clinical workflows. The goal is to make medical answers easier to verify and more usable in professional settings by grounding responses in recognized sources rather than generic chatbot output.​

Patient data tools: exports and record sharing

On the consumer side, Anthropic is also enabling people to export their health data from apps such as Apple Health and Function Health so information can be gathered and shared more easily with providers. This feature is positioned as a practical shortcut for patients who often struggle to compile records from multiple apps and portals when preparing for appointments or ongoing treatment. In parallel, Anthropic has highlighted privacy-related commitments around healthcare usage, including statements that health data from users isn’t used for model training.​

Competition heats up as adoption grows

Anthropic’s move underscores the fast-rising competition among major AI labs to become trusted platforms in medicine, where demand spans documentation, triage, clinical admin, and patient communication. The announcement comes amid similar momentum from OpenAI, which recently launched ChatGPT Health and described it as a dedicated experience where users can securely connect medical records and wellness-app data (including integrations like Apple Health and Function). OpenAI has also described a broader “OpenAI for Healthcare” push, including HIPAA-oriented safeguards such as the option for eligible customers to apply for a Business Associate Agreement (BAA).​

On early traction, Banner Health has reported more than 22,000 clinical providers using Claude, with 85% saying the tool helped them work faster while improving accuracy. Anthropic has also been linked with healthcare and life-sciences collaborators including Novo Nordisk and Stanford Health Care, as it attempts to expand beyond experimentation into scaled deployments. Even with these gains, the biggest long-term challenges remain the same across the sector: safeguarding sensitive health data, meeting regulatory expectations, and limiting the real-world risk of errors when AI-generated guidance influences decisions.