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Anthropic has announced on its Twitter page the launch of medical data integrations for its Claude AI assistant. From now on, users can connect popular health apps to it and receive personalized advice based on their own metrics.
Access to such data allows Claude to summarize the user’s medical history and explain complex indicators such as tests, metrics, or condition dynamics in simple and understandable language without medical jargon.
Anthropic announced the new feature at the beginning of the month, but it has only now become available in beta for Claude Pro and Max subscribers in the United States. The integrations work on Android and iOS.
The connection of personal medical data opens up the possibility to receive advice and analytics based not on general recommendations but on the real indicators of a particular person. At the same time, Anthropic emphasizes that Claude’s answers do not constitute medical advice, and any serious questions should be considered by a doctor.
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Since privacy is a key fear of users when dealing with sensitive information, Anthropic emphasizes strict data protection rules. Medical apps can only be connected with the user’s explicit consent. Health-related conversations are not used to train AI models and are not stored in the chat history. At the same time, the company did not specify whether users’ medical data is processed for such purposes as service operation, security monitoring, system debugging, abuse prevention, or regulatory compliance.
Anthropic is actively investing in the adaptation of Claude to work with medical information. In the same announcement, the company introduced an even larger tool – Claude for Healthcare. This is a HIPAA-compliant version of the assistant, and it is aimed at medical professionals. It allows doctors to connect Claude to CMS insurance coverage databases, ICD-10 codes, and electronic medical records.
Initial user feedback on Claude’s medical integrations is mixed. Some are already uploading years of their own data, creating personalized health dashboards and analytics. Others remain skeptical, expressing doubts about security despite Anthropic’s promises of protection within the AI.
Recent moves by major players in the AI market indicate their desire to penetrate deeper into users’ daily lives. OpenAI has already launched its own health integrations for ChatGPT and started showing ads to users with cheaper rates. Microsoft is actively promoting Copilot in all its services and simultaneously investing billions in the development of data centers.
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