Episode Details

First things first - quick reminder, we have a livestream scheduled today (January 14th @11am ET to dive into the flipped food pyramid) - here is link.

Last week ChatGPT stole the show announcing ChatGPT Health - only to take the wind out of everyone’s sails by simply offering a wait list.

But alas, it’s JPM Healthcare week in San Francisco, and as is typically the case, a big announcement was timed with the event. Anthropic sent a counterstrike. The headline read "Anthropic joins OpenAI's push into health care with new Claude tools." The kicker? Claude’s healthcare features are live NOW.

Let me just say my mind is officially blown. So much so that Carter Williams and I went live last night to debrief more about what I learned when I used myself as the guinea pig and went down the rabbit hole.If it weren't for being Carter Williams' sidekick I would be blissfully ignoring all things AI and still convincing myself we could “fix healthcare” out flitting around San Francisco talking about how we could fix it. That was then, this is now and since we want to unlock the market that ends the chronic disease epidemic, I have no choice but to embrace AI and learn to code in it.

For those that don’t have time to listen to the recording or watch the video, below is a quick synopsis. We will save you from the full transcript.

Preamble & Context

-Per announcement "you can integrate all of your personal information together with your medical records and your insurance records, and have Claude as the orchestrator and be able to navigate the whole thing and simplify it for you" -You have to be a Pro or Max subscriber, thanks to Carter's recent Claude coding bonanza, I upgraded to Max last week -Once connected, Claude will "summarize your medical history across providers, explain lab results and test findings in plain language, detect patterns across fitness metrics and health data over time, help you prepare questions for doctor appointments and identify trends you might want to discuss with your provider"-The Consumer health integrations are all beta and are done through the Connector setting (you have to browse connectors to find them) some are rolling out this week - HealthEx, Function Health and Apple Health / Android Health - you have to add the connectors but it's easy. Supposedly Apple Health will be via app and as of this post it's now showing for me-I went into HealthEx separately and set things up - if I wasn't hellbent on getting through it, I probably would have stopped the setup as it was annoying to me to have to find providers in HealthEx and then provide separate login details for each portal, many of which I haven't accessed in over 5 years. Unfortunately the beta version of the connector failed to work and I’m actively troubleshooting with HealthEx to resolve.-I've tried multiple similar platforms that seek to integrate and automatically find my EHR data but it's a nightmare because my providers aren't part of big health systems so they are part of the smaller ambulatory EMRs that aren't integrated into platforms like HealthEx. But I decided Claude is here to stay so I might as well invest the time.-As for aggregating everything into HealthEx - my biggest frustration is that the majority of my recent health data isn't available, especially labs - WHY IS Labcorp STILL NOT PLAYING?! THANK GOODNESS QUEST IS!!! Talk about differentiation, Quest Diagnostics now has a loyal customer. I'm so annoyed