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Anthropic’s Claude tools to compete or contribute to the healthcare sector, like OpenAI’s ChatGPT Health!

Anthropic has introduced new AI healthcare tools for Claude that allow users to securely access and understand their health records, improving clarity, support, and patient experience.

Category: Technology Published Date: 14 January 2026
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Introduction

A well-recognised AI research company, Anthropic, was founded by former OpenAI engineers who are keen to offer reliable, safe, and seamless artificial general intelligence for smart individuals and the future of the new tech world. The company is popular for its well-structured AI ecosystem, AI assistant and Claude.

The huge support from Amazon and Google is bolstering the company’s developmental vision and contributing largely to the mission with strong security for future development. The famous ‘Constitutional AI’ approach (methods) introduced to train models, feeding human-centric principles and values, makes the models more relevant to the human perspective.

Announcement

Anthropic have recently introduced its new set of tech innovations covering life sciences and the healthcare space. This will allow the Claude artificial intelligence platform users to grant permission to their health records. This will help the users to achieve satisfaction and clarity of their medical information.

As observed, Anthropic made this move just after OpenAI launched ChatGPT Health. ChatGPT Health is a shift to the prominent healthcare AI industries, following the opportunity trend and providing an intensified and fragile testing space mainly for generative AI technology.

Anthropic and OpenAI’s announcement, though standing on different stages, the act of contribution remains the same for the vast healthcare sector. This purpose-built launch can be a feeling of competition or initiative internally, but these remarkable tools are strengthening the health tech field. The new technology, AI, has spotted vulnerabilities in most sectors, and so the company could meet the niche areas to bring positive change to their workflow and other operations.

Tools specification

Newly launched tools will enable users to share health details through fitness apps and health record. This helps to modify health-based chat as per one's choice. These tools are not just expansion development, but a check on AI systems' potential of capturing the right guess for medical information. Learning from the wrongful guidance and tightening scrutiny, the role of AI systems needs to be responsible enough to fix it before entering into the records.

Head of life sciences at Anthropic, Eric Kauderer-Abrams, said, “While going through the health position and systems, I sensed the users' feeling of loneliness and the attempt to collect all the data from different sources. This creates a stressful environment for the users and consumes their time more on the phone. But now I’m really thrilled to introduce Claude to the world that will be looking after all the data and users' needs regarding the same.”

Author

Chandni Pathak

Chandni Pathak

Holding M.Pharm in Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Chandni crafts cutting-edge, research-driven healthcare news for Towards Healthcare, combining scientific depth with innovative storytelling to simplify complex topics for global readers.