In January 2026, Anthropic launched Claude for Healthcare at the J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference, introducing a HIPAA-ready product with purpose-built connectors and agent skills for healthcare providers, payers, and health tech organizations. Claude is an AI assistant built by Anthropic that can read documents, analyze data, reason through complex problems, and connect directly to external platforms and databases. The feature that makes Claude particularly useful for clinical and administrative workflows is what Anthropic calls Agent Skills, which are task-specific expertise packages that transform Claude from a general-purpose assistant into a tool calibrated for a specific type of work. Skills work across Claude.ai on the web, the Claude desktop app, and Claude Code. The HIPAA-ready infrastructure and most of the healthcare-specific connectors and agent skills are part of Claude for Healthcare for enterprise customers, which requires a Business Associate Agreement (BAA) with Anthropic. Consumer plans such as Pro and Max are not covered under Anthropic's BAA and are not intended for workflows that involve protected health information.