Bridging the gap between AI and medicine: Claude in Microsoft Foundry advances capabilities for healthcare and life sciences customers

Healthcare and life sciences organizations are navigating an era of unprecedented complexity. Administrative burden continues to rise, clinical workflows remain fragmented, and scientific discovery is advancing faster than traditional systems can support. At the same time, trust, safety, and regulatory compliance remain non-negotiable.

From supporting clinical research and helping teams prepare documentation to assisting teams with documentation review for prior authorization workflows, organizations need AI that does more than generate text. They need AI that is designed to support medical and scientific complexity, reasons across multi-step workflows, and can be deployed responsibly at enterprise scale.

Today, we’re excited to announce that Anthropic has added new tools, connectors, and skills that allow Claude in Microsoft Foundry to bring advanced reasoning, agentic workflows, and model intelligence purpose built for healthcare and life sciences industries. Built on Azure’s secure, enterprise-grade 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

1. Claude for healthcare
   A complementary set of domain specific model intelligence tools and resources that enable healthcare providers, payers, and organizations to use Claude for medical and operational workflows. These capabilities unlock use cases like qualifying prior authorization requests, supporting claims appeals processing, coordinating patient care and triage, and more.
2. Claude for life sciences
   New components that accelerate every stage of the research and development (R&D) lifecycle connecting Claude to more scientific platforms and enabling it to generate more consistent, high-quality experimental and clinical protocols. These capabilities unlock use cases like supporting teams in generating initial drafts of protocol materials, preparing regulatory submissions, and more.

Together, these capabilities build on major recent advances in Claude’s general intelligence bringing domain-aware AI into 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 industry use cases. These agents combine:

• Advanced model capabilities optimized for healthcare and scientific reasoning.
• Enterprise-grade deployment paths aligned to 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 burden, fragmented systems, and time-intensive workflows. Anthropic’s Claude helps address these challenges by supporting use cases such as:

• Prior authorization: Streamlining documentation review and decision support.
• Insurance claims appeal processing: Accelerating appeals with structured reasoning and evidence synthesis.
• Care coordination and patient message triage: Helping clinicians prioritize and respond more effectively.

Why it matters

• Powerful: Frontier-level reasoning across clinical, operational, and coding-related tasks.
• Tailored: Purpose-built for healthcare workflows with MCP connections.
• Committed: Part of a planned long-term evolution alongside healthcare organizations.

Accelerating life sciences from discovery to translation

In life sciences, speed and scientific rigor are critical. With intelligence and capabilities purpose built for life sciences, Claude supports end-to-end workflows across research, development, and operations.

Key life sciences use cases

• Preclinical R&D acceleration
  • Bioinformatics analysis
  • Protocol and experimental design
  • Literature synthesis and hypothesis generation
• Clinical trial operations and data management
• Regulatory affairs and submission preparation

Why it matters

• Trusted: Life sciences–specific capabilities built with biosafety guardrails.
• Powerful: Frontier AI for bioinformatics, experimental design, and synthesis.
• Tailored: Deep integrations with scientific databases, lab tools, and clinical and regulatory platforms.
• Committed: Co-developed alongside pharma and research leaders.

Powered by the latest advances in Claude intelligence

These domain-specific capabilities build on major improvements in Claude’s underlying models. According to Anthropic, when assessed on detailed simulations of real-world medical and scientific tasks, Claude Opus 4.5 substantially outperforms earlier releases across benchmarks such as:

• Scientific figure interpretation
• Computational biology
• Protein understanding

Combined with ongoing investments in safety, low hallucination rates, and responsible AI, these advances make Claude designed to provide improved support for real‑world workflows including prior authorization, care coordination, and regulatory submissions.

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 unified platform for governance, observability, deployment, and compliance.

Claude in Microsoft Foundry adds another powerful option for organizations that need:

• Domain-aware reasoning
• Enterprise-grade controls
• Flexible deployment across regulated environments

Get started

These advanced capabilities are available today using 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 workloads.

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Source: Microsoft Industry Blog