U.S. artificial intelligence (AI) corporations Anthropic said on the 11th (local time) it will launch "Claude for Healthcare," specialized in health care. Following OpenAI, Anthropic is also throwing its hat into the ring in health care.
Anthropic added a feature to its AI chatbot Claude that can access health records, helping medical institutions and users themselves easily understand medical information. It meets the U.S. Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), enabling it to handle sensitive medical data.
Users can gather their health data and medical records stored in Apple and Android smartphone health apps and share them with doctors and others, and medical staff can automatically generate clinical notes or reports based on that.
Mike Krieger, Anthropic chief product officer (CPO), said, "The new feature is designed to help users gain more knowledge through their own data as well as conversations with medical staff."
Earlier, OpenAI also unveiled "ChatGPT Health" to help users manage their health. ChatGPT Health is designed to help users understand recent test results based on their own health data and prepare necessary questions before a visit. Health-related data had been scattered across multiple places—apps, wearable devices, PDF files of medical records—making it hard to grasp the full context, but OpenAI said ChatGPT Health can help provide an integrated understanding of such information.
Bloomberg said the move by OpenAI and Anthropic into health care is a strategy to demonstrate AI's broad utility and secure new revenue streams. According to OpenAI's analysis of anonymized conversations, more than 230 million users each week asked ChatGPT health-related questions.