Blank Metal Partners with Anthropic to Advance Healthcare & Life Sciences

Today, we’re thrilled to announce that Blank Metal is joining Anthropic as a partner in their Healthcare & Life Sciences efforts, launching January 12, 2026. This partnership gives us the tools to scale solutions faster and bring them to market more safely across the entire healthcare spectrum; from multi-billion dollar health systems to startups focused on building better care pathways.

The Problems We Keep Seeing

We keep watching healthcare organizations struggle with the same issues: fragmented patient communications, provider burnout from administrative work, and the impossibility of delivering personalized care at scale. Whether it’s a major insurer trying to fix prior authorization or a cancer navigation startup helping patients understand their treatment journey, everyone needs AI that actually works, and that they can trust.

Anthropic’s new HIPAA-ready infrastructure and domain-specific model intelligence in healthcare and life sciences should let the ecosystem move faster and companies like us (and our clients) deploy more confidently. Not generic experiences dressed up as health solutions. Purpose-built capabilities that understand the actual complexity of regulated industry workflows, and the human experience.

What This Looks Like in Practice

There are a lot of complex operational challenges in healthcare—claims appeals, care coordination, prior authorization—where AI can help alleviate the burden on payers, providers, and patients to get back to what matters most: focusing on care.

With Anthropic’s new MCP Connectors and sample Agent Skills for healthcare and life sciences, it should be easier and faster to build intelligent support systems that quickly and effectively understand medical complexity and individual patient needs at scale. Problems like prior authorization or care coordination (simple to describe, massive to solve) have never felt more in reach.

Looking at care coordination as a specific example: Claude can support care teams in navigating a large volume of patient portal messages, referrals, and handoffs. It can sort through these to identify what needs immediate attention and ensure that nothing gets inadvertently forgotten.

From Health Systems to Startups

We’ve worked in healthcare longer than we’d care to admit sometimes. And, our work spans the entire health ecosystem. From multi-billion dollar health systems working to simplify what should be simple, and ensure it feels human, to a cancer treatment platform that’s diligently balancing clinical accuracy with compassion and support, to wellness companies working to personalize health journeys for millions of members.

What connects these cases: the need for AI that understands not just clinical terminology, but the human experience of navigating illness, wellness, and everything in between. The moments that matter; understanding a medical bill, processing a new diagnosis, finding the right specialist when you need one most.

Building This Right

Healthcare AI demands foundations of trust, privacy, and clinical accuracy. That’s why we’re excited about Anthropic’s push into healthcare (and we’re thrilled to be in the partner cohort).

These aren’t just technical features. They’re a step forward in the building blocks of AI that can improve patient outcomes/experience and help eliminate clinical burden at a pace we’ve yet to see.

What’s Next

We’re excited to bring this next generation of Anthropic capabilities to our healthcare clients and partners. The technology is ready. The problems are clear. Now it’s about building better solutions that make a bigger (and more real) impact for more people.

Healthcare transformation takes time. But with the right tools and partners, we can accelerate it. We’re proud to partner with Anthropic in advancing Healthcare & Life Sciences.