Claude Health Data Avatar (HDA) connectorWhat Claude can do in your Health Data Avatar (HDA) account.
The Claude Health Data Avatar (HDA) connector exposes 2 tools. 2 read, 0 write, 0 left undocumented. Below: what Claude can open in your health record, what HDA's own docs promise beyond that, and how to take the access back.
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What changes when Claude can read your health record
You stop pasting lab reports into the chat. Once HDA is connected, Claude can look up which files sit in your Health Data Avatar record and open the text HDA extracted from any one of them. You ask in plain words, Claude finds the right document and answers from it, with no upload on your side.
Find the right document fast. You remember a cardiology letter from last spring but not its title. get_files_manifest returns your documents with their title, date and tags, so Claude can narrow down to the one you mean.
Read a scan without retyping it. A handwritten prescription was uploaded months ago. get_file_transcript hands Claude the plain text HDA pulled from that file, along with any notes you added to it in the app.
Prepare a doctor's visit. Claude can go through several transcripts one after another and line up what each document says before an appointment, all from the record you already built.
Now the part the directory sheet leaves out. HDA's help page describes far more than two tools: medications, wearable data, journal entries and notes. On the directory sheet read on October 1, 2026, Claude only sees the two document tools. And nothing runs on its own: no tool fires when a new file lands in your record. For background processing on an event, you want an automation tool, a different job; the Integrations hub gathers that side.
The vocabulary in one minute
Five words you will meet while connecting HDA.
- Connector
- The link you set up once between Claude and an account you already have, so Claude can work in it while answering you.
- Tool
- One named thing a connector lets Claude do. Claude picks the ones it needs by itself, and the directory lists each by name.
- Authorization
- The sign-in screen of the service itself, where you hand Claude its access. Granted once per person, and you can take it back.
- Approval
- The confirmation Claude waits for before it goes through with something that changes your account, shown right in the conversation.
- MCP
- The shared standard connectors are built on: it is what lets an assistant like Claude talk to an outside service.
Connect HDA to Claude in three steps
- 01
Find HDA in Claude
In Claude's settings, open Customize, then Connectors, and look for Health Data Avatar in the list. On a Team or Enterprise workspace, an Owner or Primary Owner has to enable the connector first, before each member can sign in.
- 02
Start the connection
Click Connect on its row, then sign in to HDA in the window HDA opens itself. If the link breaks later, use Disconnect and connect again. HDA says you can start even without an HDA account.
- 03
Read the authorization screen
Check the authorization screen before you accept. It belongs to HDA, not to Claude, and it decides what the access covers. You can withdraw that access later from your HDA account as well.
The 2 tools, sorted by what they do
Health Data Avatar (HDA) gives Claude 2 tools: 2 that read your account, 0 that change something in it.
Only one group this time: both tools read your record. Names stay as Claude shows them, in English.
- 2 read
What Claude reads (2)
2 toolsTwo tools that look into your documents without touching them.
get_files_manifest
Pulls the inventory of what your HDA record holds, uploaded files and journals alike, each with its title, date and tags.
get_file_transcript
Opens a single document as the plain text HDA extracted from it. Any notes you attached to that file in the app come first, ahead of the extracted text.
What Claude asks before acting
By default, Claude stops and asks for your go-ahead before each action it takes on an account for you. The request shows up in the conversation, when it matters.
On a Team or Enterprise workspace, owners decide whether a member may let some actions through without being asked every time. They can also cap what a connector may do for the whole organization, keeping reads open and closing writes, and nobody overrides that from their own account. Claude works with your rights and nothing more: what you cannot reach in HDA, it cannot reach either. HDA adds a choice of its own at authorization: let Claude create documents, or keep it to reading.
Which plans include it
None of the 819 sheets in the official directory shows availability by plan. That answer is published nowhere, connector by connector: a real gap in the catalogue.
The general rule is published: remote connectors are open to all users on Claude, Cowork, Claude Desktop and mobile. On Team and Enterprise, an Owner or Primary Owner enables the connector for the organization before members can connect. For the current state, check the connector's sheet in the official directory, the only place that shows it.
Where this connector stops
A connector is not an automation. Claude calls these tools while it answers you: nothing starts when a document arrives or a transcript is edited.
The tool list is an observed floor, not a promise: an administrator can open actions that appear on no public sheet. The partner badge is not a security audit either, and Anthropic says so on every sheet: it does not choose the tools a publisher exposes and does not guarantee they behave as announced. Only HDA's own documentation covers this connector; no Claude help page exists for it. The directory sheet also announces wearables and apps as coming soon, without a date.
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