Clinical Note Extract (Anthropic Healthcare Plugin)

Anthropic-published skill from the anthropics/healthcare plugin marketplace that turns unstructured clinical text into structured, validated records where every value is traced back to its source span.

   
Type Claude Skill (shipped inside the healthcare Claude Code plugin)
Supplier Anthropic
Availability GA
Pricing Free / OSS — provided under Anthropic’s terms of service
Capabilities Read/Write — reads clinical notes, writes structured records
Verified works · 2026-07-20
Security caution · 2026-07-20 — first-party Anthropic, skill dir confirmed, but repo has no LICENSE

How to install

  • Claude Code — plugin marketplace: 
    /plugin marketplace add anthropics/healthcare
/plugin install healthcare@healthcare

    The clinical-note-extract skill is bundled inside the consolidated healthcare plugin (the older standalone plugins are now deprecated in favor of healthcare@healthcare). Invoke it as /healthcare:clinical-note-extract (namespaced by the plugin — not a bare /clinical-note-extract).

  • Claude.ai / Claude Desktop — the healthcare plugin’s skills load wherever the marketplace plugin is enabled.

What it does

Processes one or many notes through a four-step pipeline — schema definition, extraction, validation, reporting — and emits per-value records with:

  • value — the extracted data.
  • span — the verbatim source text supporting it.
  • presence / temporality / experiencer — assertion metadata.
  • null_reason — an explanation whenever a field is absent (nulls are documented, not omitted).
  • unit — measurement units where applicable.

Validation is deterministic (terminology lookups, range checks, date validation) and appends verification status; any span that cannot be confirmed against the source note is explicitly flagged.

Primary use cases: Auditable chart abstraction, clinical registry building, structured EHR data extraction with provenance.

Notes

Its SKILL.md front-matter names the skill clinical-note-extract-skill, but the directory and plugin command are clinical-note-extract. Distinct from the K-Dense clinical-reports skill (report authoring) — this one is a structured-extraction/abstraction tool with span-level citations. Pairs with icd10-cm and procedure-coding for coding downstream of extraction.

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