Claude Healthcare launches today

Hey AI Enthusiast,

Anthropic just announced Claude for Healthcare.

Right after OpenAI revealed ChatGPT Health last week.

Claude for Healthcare goes deeper than ChatGPT's patient chat experience. It's built for providers, payers, and patients.

The platform connects to medical databases like CMS Coverage, ICD-10, National Provider Identifier, and PubMed. Designed to speed up prior authorization, research, and report generation.

Anthropic also launched Cowork on Monday. It's Claude Code without the code. Non-technical users can give Claude access to a folder and have it read or modify files through normal chat.

Both tools are in research preview.

But first, today's prompt and tool spotlight (then why healthcare AI is heating up...)

🔥 Prompt of the Day 🔥

White Label Client Report Builder

Act as an agency reporting specialist. Create one white-label report template for [CLIENT TYPE] that makes you look like the hero.

Essential Details:

• Client Industry: [THEIR BUSINESS]

• Reporting Frequency: [WEEKLY/MONTHLY]

• Metrics That Matter: [KEY KPIS]

• Previous Reports: [WHAT THEY'VE SEEN BEFORE]

• Your Branding: [COLORS/LOGO/FONTS]

• Client Technical Level: [SOPHISTICATION]

Create one report template including:

• Executive dashboard (1-page visual snapshot)

• Win highlighting framework (celebrate victories)

• Context-adding commentary scripts (explain the "why")

• Benchmark comparison section (industry standards)

• Challenge documentation with solutions (transparency + action)

• Strategic recommendations format (next steps)

• Next period preview (what's coming)

Make clients love opening reports.

🤖 Tool Tuesday 🤖

Cowork: Claude Code Without the Code

Most people can't use Claude Code.

It requires command-line tools. Virtual environments. Technical setup.

Anthropic just fixed that with Cowork.

What It Actually Is

Cowork is built into the Claude Desktop app. You designate a specific folder where Claude can read or modify files. Then you give instructions through normal chat.

No command-line. No coding. Just conversation.

It's a sandboxed instance of Claude Code for non-technical users.

How It Works

You point Claude at a folder. "This folder contains my expense receipts. Create a spreadsheet organizing them by date, vendor, and amount."

Claude scans the folder. Reads the files. Builds the spreadsheet.

Or: "I have a folder of podcast transcripts. Pull out the 10 best quotes from each and create a summary document."

Claude processes all the files. Extracts quotes. Assembles the summary.

Why This Matters

Claude Code users have been doing non-coding tasks with it for months. Managing media files. Scanning social media posts. Analyzing conversations.

But most people can't set up Claude Code. The technical barrier is too high.

Cowork removes that barrier.

Real Use Cases

Anthropic gives the example of assembling expense reports from receipt photos. But the possibilities are broader:

• Organizing research notes across multiple documents

• Processing customer feedback from hundreds of files

• Creating summaries from meeting transcripts

• Renaming and sorting media libraries

• Extracting data from PDFs into spreadsheets

Any task that involves reading or modifying multiple files in a folder.

The Risks

Cowork is designed to take strings of actions without user input.

That's powerful. But also dangerous if you give vague or contradictory instructions.

Anthropic explicitly warns about prompt injection and deleted files. They recommend making instructions as clear and unambiguous as possible.

"These risks aren't new with Cowork," their blog post reads, "but it might be the first time you're using a more advanced tool that moves beyond a simple conversation."

If you tell Cowork to "clean up this folder," it might delete files you didn't want deleted. Be specific.

Availability

Cowork is in research preview. Only available to Max subscribers right now. Waitlist for other plans.

It's built on the Claude Agent SDK. Same underlying model as Claude Code.

Why Anthropic Built This

Claude Code launched in November 2024 as a command-line tool. It became one of Anthropic's most successful products.

They launched a web interface in October. Then a Slack integration two months later.

Now Cowork. Each version removes technical barriers and opens the tool to more users.

The pattern: Start with the most technical version. Learn how people actually use it. Then simplify for broader audiences.

Who Should Use This

If you have repetitive file management tasks, this is worth testing.

If you're not technical but want agentic AI to handle multi-step workflows, Cowork is built for you.

If you're already using Claude Code for non-coding tasks, Cowork gives you a simpler interface.

The free trial on Max subscriptions makes it easy to test.

Did You Know?

Aquariums use AI to compose music that matches fish swimming patterns, creating soundscapes that reduce stress in marine animals and increase breeding success rates.

🗞️ Breaking AI News 🗞️

Anthropic Announces Claude for Healthcare

Days after OpenAI revealed ChatGPT Health, Anthropic announced Claude for Healthcare on Sunday.

It's a set of tools for providers, payers, and patients.

How It's Different from ChatGPT Health

ChatGPT Health focuses on patient-side chat experiences. Sync your health data. Ask questions about wellness.

Claude for Healthcare goes deeper. It's built for the entire healthcare ecosystem.

What It Actually Does

Claude for Healthcare adds "connectors" that give the AI access to medical platforms and databases:

• Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Coverage Database

• International Classification of Diseases, 10th Revision (ICD-10)

• National Provider Identifier Standard

• PubMed

These connectors speed up research, report generation, and administrative tasks.

Prior Authorization Example

Prior authorization is when a doctor submits additional information to an insurance provider to see if they'll cover a medication or treatment.

It's administrative. It's tedious. It takes doctors away from actually seeing patients.

Claude for Healthcare can automate this. Pull the relevant codes from ICD-10. Check CMS coverage. Generate the authorization request.

Anthropic CPO Mike Krieger: "Clinicians often report spending more time on documentation and paperwork than actually seeing patients."

Prior authorization is a perfect use case for automation. It doesn't require specialized medical judgment. Just data processing and form filling.

The Hallucination Problem

Here's the concern: LLMs hallucinate. They generate confident responses that are sometimes completely wrong.

That's dangerous in healthcare.

Both Anthropic and OpenAI warn that users should see healthcare professionals for reliable, tailored guidance. The AI is supplemental, not a replacement.

But people are already relying on AI for medical advice. OpenAI says 230 million people talk about their health with ChatGPT each week.

Anthropic is clearly observing the same use case.

What Makes Claude Different

Anthropic's "agent skills" and database connectors make Claude more sophisticated for clinical workflows than ChatGPT Health's patient chat interface.

Claude can:

• Research medical literature on PubMed

• Look up treatment codes in ICD-10

• Check insurance coverage in CMS databases

• Generate prior authorization documents

That's provider-level functionality, not just patient Q&A.

Data Privacy

Both OpenAI and Anthropic say they won't use health data to train their models.

Users can sync health data from phones, smartwatches, and other platforms. That data stays private.

Given healthcare regulations like HIPAA, this is non-negotiable. Any breach would be catastrophic.

Why This Is Happening Now

The healthcare industry is drowning in administrative work.

Doctors spend more time on paperwork than patients. Insurance authorization takes weeks. Research requires sifting through thousands of papers.

AI can automate the administrative layer without replacing clinical judgment.

That's the pitch. And it's compelling.

The risk is that AI starts making recommendations that sound authoritative but are medically incorrect. And users trust it because it sounds confident.

What This Means

Healthcare AI is becoming a battleground.

OpenAI launched ChatGPT Health. Anthropic responded with Claude for Healthcare. Google will likely announce something soon.

The company that wins healthcare wins massive recurring revenue from providers, payers, and patients.

But the regulatory scrutiny will be intense. One major error, and the backlash will set the entire category back.

Anthropic is positioning Claude as the safer, more transparent option. Constitutional AI. Database connectors instead of pure generation. Provider-level tools instead of just patient chat.

That's a smart positioning against OpenAI's consumer-first approach.

Over to You...

What's your biggest concern about AI in healthcare right now?

Reply and share it.

To addressing real risks,

Jeff J. Hunter 
Founder, AI Persona Method | TheTip.ai

NEW: “AI Money Group” to Learn to Make Money with AI