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In October, we announced Claude for Life Sciences<\/a>, our latest step in making Claude a productive research partner for scientists and clinicians, and in helping Claude to support those in industry bringing new scientific advancements to the public.<\/p>\n

Now, we\u2019re expanding that feature set in two ways. First, we\u2019re introducing Claude for Healthcare<\/a>, a complementary set of tools and resources that allow healthcare providers, payers, and consumers to use Claude for medical purposes through HIPAA-ready products. Second, we\u2019re adding new capabilities for life sciences: connecting Claude to more scientific platforms, and helping it provide greater support in areas ranging from clinical trial management to regulatory operations.<\/p>\n

These features build on top of major recent improvements we\u2019ve made to Claude\u2019s general intelligence. These improvements are best captured by evaluations of Claude\u2019s agentic performance on detailed simulations of medical and scientific tasks, since this correlates most closely to real-world usefulness. Here, Claude Opus 4.5, our latest model, represents a major forward step:<\/p>\n

In addition, Opus 4.5 with extended thinking improves on earlier Claude models in producing correct answers on our suite of honesty evaluations, reflecting the progress we\u2019ve made on factual hallucinations.1<\/sup><\/p>\n

With these model improvements and our new tools, Claude is now dramatically more useful for real-world healthcare and life sciences tasks. Ultimately, it\u2019s those real-world outcomes that have motivated our work: these tools can be used to speed up prior authorization requests so that patients can get life saving care more quickly, can help with patient care coordination to reduce the pressures on clinicians’ time, and help with regulatory submissions so that more life saving drugs can come to market faster. We discuss the practical ways that Claude can be used across these industries in more detail below.<\/p>\n

Introducing Claude for Healthcare<\/strong><\/h2>\n

What\u2019s new<\/strong><\/h4>\n

Connectors<\/a> are tools that allow users to give Claude access to other platforms directly. For payers and providers, we\u2019ve added several connectors that make healthcare information easier to find, access, and understand. These allow Claude to pull information from industry-standard systems and databases, meaning that clinicians and administrators can save significant time finding the data and generating the reports they need.<\/p>\n

Claude can now connect to:<\/p>\n