Healthcare and life sciences organizations are going through an era of unprecedented complexity. Administrative burdens continue to grow, clinical workflows remain fragmented, and scientific discoveries are advancing faster than traditional systems can support. At the same time, trust, security and compliance remain non-negotiable.
From supporting clinical research and assisting teams with documentation preparation to helping teams review documentation for prior authorization workflows, organizations need AI that can do more than just generate text. They need AI it is designed to support medical and scientific complexityreasons across multi-step workflows and can be deployed responsibly at an enterprise scale.
Today, we’re excited to announce that Anthropic has added new tools, connectors, and skills that allow Claude at Microsoft Foundry to bring advanced reasoning, agent-based workflows, and model intelligence built for the healthcare and life sciences industries. Built on Azure’s secure enterprise foundation, Foundry ensures these capabilities scale responsibly while integrating with familiar Azure services for data, compliance, and workflow automation.
From general intelligence to domain expertise
- Claude for healthcare
An additional set of model-specific modeling tools and resources that enable healthcare providers, payers, and organizations to use Claude for medical and operational workflows. These features unlock use cases such as qualifying prior authorization requests, supporting claims appeals processing, patient care coordination and triage, and more. - Claude for life sciences
Accelerating each stage of the research and development (R&D) lifecycle, new components connect Claude to multiple scientific platforms and enable it to create more consistent, high-quality experimental and clinical protocols. These capabilities unlock use cases such as supporting teams in generating initial drafts of protocol materials, preparing regulatory filings, and more.
Together, these capabilities build on major recent advances in Claude’s general intelligence, bringing domain-aware AI to the workflows that matter most.
Built for regulated, real-world workflows
Claude’s advanced healthcare and life sciences capabilities enable organizations to deploy vertical specific AI agents tailored to critical industrial use cases. These resources combine:
- Advanced model options optimized for healthcare and scientific reasoning.
- Enterprise level deployment paths in accordance with industry requirements.
- Domain-specific connectors via Model Context Protocol (MCP), and skills to complete specialized tasks.
All within the trusted, unified Microsoft Foundry platform.
Transforming healthcare from insight to action
Healthcare teams are often constrained by administrative burdens, fragmented systems and time-consuming workflows. Anthropic’s Claude helps address these challenges by supporting use cases such as:
- Prior authorization: Streamlining documentation control and decision support.
- Processing appeals from insurance claims: Accelerating Appeals Using Structured Reasoning and Evidence Synthesis.
- Coordination of care and triage of patient reports: Helps doctors prioritize and respond more effectively.
Why it matters
- Strong: Boundary-level considerations across clinical, operational, and coding tasks.
- Tailor made: Purpose-built for healthcare workflows with MCP connectivity.
- Committed: Part of the planned long-term development next to healthcare organizations.
Accelerating life sciences from discovery to translation
In the life sciences, speed and scientific rigor are of the essence. With life sciences intelligence and capabilities, Claude supports complex workflows across research, development and operations.
Key Life Sciences Use Cases
- Acceleration of preclinical research and development
- Bioinformatics analysis
- Protocol and experimental design
- Literature synthesis and hypothesis generation
- Clinical trial operation and data management
- Regulatory Affairs and Submission Preparation
Why it matters
- Trustworthy: Bioscience-specific capabilities built with biosecurity guardrails.
- Strong: Frontier AI for Bioinformatics, Experimental Design and Synthesis.
- Tailor made: Deep integration with scientific databases, laboratory tools, and clinical and regulatory platforms.
- Committed: Developed together with leading pharmaceutical and research companies.
Powered by the latest advances in Cloud intelligence
These domain-specific features build on major improvements to the core Claude models. According to Anthropic, when evaluated against detailed simulations of real medical and scientific tasks, Claude Opus 4.5 substantially outperforms earlier versions across benchmarks such as:
- Interpretation of a scientific figure
- Computational biology
- Understanding proteins
Combined with ongoing investments in safety, low hallucination rate and responsible AIWith these advancements, Claude is designed to provide improved support for real-world workflows, including prior authorization, care coordination, and regulatory applications.
One platform. Many models. Built for trust.
With Microsoft Foundry, customers can choose from a growing catalog of industry-leading models—including Claude—while benefiting from a single platform for management, observability, deployment, and compliance.
Claude in Microsoft Foundry adds another powerful option for organizations that need:
- Domain-aware reasoning
- Enterprise level control
- Flexible deployment in regulated environments
Get started
These advanced features are available today with Claude in Microsoft Foundry. To learn more, explore the Foundry Models catalog or connect with your Microsoft Account team to understand how Claude can support your healthcare or life sciences workload.