Healthcare AI News 1/14/26

News

Anthropic announces Claude for Healthcare, a HIPAA-ready set of AI tools that can support prior authorizations, claims processing, care coordination, and medical data interpretation by connecting to data sources such as the CMS Coverage Database, ICD-10, and the National Provider Identifier Registry. The company also added new Agent Skills for FHIR development and prior authorization.

OpenAI announces ChatGPT Health, which supports health conversations with encryption, isolation from model training, and connectivity to wellness and medical records applications such as Apple Health and MyFitnessPal.The company also acquires the year-old, four-employee medical records startup Torch Health, which was working on AI tools to summarize health data, for a reported $100 million.

Penn Medicine develops Chart Hero, an AI-powered sidebar in Epic that summarizes chart information and can suggest next steps to physicians. The health system plans to expand it so that patients can enter their concerns and goals ahead of visits.

Kaiser Permanente develops TimEHR, and EHR-embedded AI tool that predicts the optimal length of appointment for a patient’s pre-op visit. The system, which uses Epic’s audit log as a data source, also suggests whether their appointment should be in-person or virtual.

The FDA and European Medicines Agency issue a set of 10 common principles for using AI to generate and monitor evidence in drug development.

Research

Cedars-Sinai will use up to $5 million from HHS’s ARPA-H to build KronosRx, an AI platform that uses stem-cell-based patient avatars and electronic health records to predict drug toxicity before trials.

Other

The CEO of Shopify uses Claude to create an HTML-based viewer of the exported data from his annual MRI scan. Healthcare followers pondered why he bothered to write an application rather than use a free DICOM viewer.

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