Anthropic expands Claude tools within Microsoft Foundry for healthcare and life sciences

catalogueAnthropic has added new tools, connectors and capabilities that allow its Claude models to operate more deeply within Microsoft Foundry, with a focus on healthcare and life sciences workflows.

Microsoft said in a blog post that the expanded integration brings advanced reasoning, agentic workflows and model intelligence purpose-built for clinical, regulatory and scientific use cases. Microsoft Foundry runs on Microsoft Azure, which the company described as a secure, enterprise-grade foundation suitable for regulated industries.

For healthcare, Microsoft said Claude now offers domain-specific intelligence tailored to providers, payers and healthcare organisations. Use cases include prior authorisation review, claims appeals processing, care coordination and patient message triage. The models also support clinical documentation tasks such as ambient scribing and chart review, areas where automation is increasingly being adopted to reduce administrative burden on clinicians.

In life sciences, the integration enables Claude to connect directly to scientific and research platforms. Microsoft said this allows the model to support preclinical research and development, bioinformatics workflows, protocol and experimental design, literature synthesis, clinical trial operations and preparation of regulatory submissions. The aim is to embed AI reasoning directly into the tools researchers already use, rather than treating models as standalone assistants.

Anthropic said the latest release, Claude Opus 4.5, delivers a marked improvement in scientific performance compared with earlier versions. According to the company, the model substantially outperforms prior releases on benchmarks covering scientific figure interpretation, computational biology and protein understanding, capabilities that are particularly relevant to drug discovery and biomedical research.

The companies said these new capabilities are available immediately through Claude within Microsoft Foundry. Customers can access the tools via the Foundry Models catalogue or engage their Microsoft account teams to explore deployment options.

The expansion reflects growing demand for AI systems that are not only powerful, but also adapted to the specific regulatory, data and workflow requirements of healthcare and life sciences. By combining Anthropic’s model development with Microsoft’s enterprise cloud and tooling, the partnership is positioning Claude as a production-ready AI for some of the most complex and highly regulated sectors.

The Recap

• Anthropic added tools to run Claude in Microsoft Foundry
• Claude Opus 4.5 outperforms earlier releases on scientific benchmarks
• Capabilities available today through Claude in Microsoft Foundry