United Kingdom, Jan. 12 -- Anthropic has unveiled a new set of healthcare tools for Claude.

The announcement positions Anthropic's Claude as a personal health information hub, capable of helping users make sense of medical records, insurance paperwork and fitness data in one place.

The rollout comes just days after OpenAI launched ChatGPT Health, underlining how quickly AI heavyweights are moving into healthcare.

Claude's new features allow users to share medical documents and connect data from platforms such as Apple Health, with the AI summarising and explaining information in plain language.

Anthropic has said the tools are designed to reduce the administrative and cognitive burden of navigating healthcare, rather than replacing cl...