Appointment preparation, with Claude
Walk into your next appointment prepared.
Organize what’s been happening, understand the evidence, and find the questions you want to ask. Informed Patient guides you through it in Claude.
Free connector. Use your Claude account; Claude’s plan limits apply.
You shouldn’t have to hold it all in your head.
The symptoms that come and go. The test you’re not sure how to interpret. The question you remember on the way home. Preparing for an appointment is work—especially when you’re already unwell.
Informed Patient gives that work a structure. Start with what you know, say when you’re unsure, and come back to the rest when you have the energy.
Tell your story
Informed Patient teaches Claude a structured protocol: how to ask about your symptoms, timeline, medical history, and what you want from your appointment. You can skip a question or say “I don’t know.”
Put the evidence in perspective
The connector helps Claude retrieve public medical literature and examine what it does—and doesn’t—support. Sources, access limitations, and uncertainty belong in the conversation.
Our tools ensure Claude can access all the details, not just the summaries that come back from a default Claude web search.
Bring something useful to your doctor
Work toward a handout with your priorities, a symptom summary, relevant references, and specific questions for your medical team. Review it with Claude before you bring it along.
Start here
A little setup. Then a conversation.
Set up in Claude on the web or desktop. No download, API key, or separate Informed Patient account.
Claude supports custom connectors on Free, Pro, and Max; Free accounts have one custom-connector slot. For Informed Patient, we recommend Opus 5.5 or better, which requires a paid Claude account. On a Team or Enterprise account, an owner may need to add Informed Patient for you. Claude’s setup guide.
What are you adding to Claude?
A connector is a way to give Claude a particular set of tools and instructions. The technical name is MCP. This one gives it Informed Patient’s structured preparation method, tools for reading public evidence, and guidance for making your appointment handout.
You keep talking with Claude. Informed Patient supplies the method and evidence tools behind the conversation.
Who gets your information?
The connector is designed against ingesting any personal information about the people who use it. Instead, Informed Patient coaches Claude through a proven process, and guarantees it gets the full text it needs from medical evidence sources, not just summaries.
Here’s what Informed Patient receives to support this process.
| Information | Informed Patient | Your chat provider |
|---|---|---|
| Your conversation and medical details | Our tools request checkmarks that topics were covered, rather than your personal answers or medical records. | Handles the messages, symptoms, history, and files you share in the conversation. |
| Your appointment handout | Receives a signal that it was created, rather than the handout itself. | Creates and handles the handout within your conversation. |
| Research searches and sources | Receives medical search terms and public article links or identifiers. PubMed queries go to NCBI; we retain public source material to speed future searches. | Sends research requests and receives the returned evidence. |
| Progress and technical diagnostics | Receives completion checkmarks, tool activity, success or error status, and rough timings, linked by a random workflow ID. | Runs the preparation process in your conversation. |
| Problem reports | Receives descriptions of tool problems and public source references submitted through the reporting tool. Reports are retained for troubleshooting. | Can submit a report when an Informed Patient tool has a problem. |
| Feedback you send us | Stores the name, email address, and message you submit through the feedback form. Form contents are excluded from PostHog capture. | Feedback goes directly to us, separately from your chat. |
| Visits to this website | Records page views, setup actions, browser/device details, and a browser analytics identifier. | Website analytics are separate from your chat. |
Your chat provider’s own privacy settings and policies govern how it retains and uses your conversation. See Claude’s privacy controls.
If you send us feedback, email us, or join our email list, we receive the information you choose to send. Do not include confidential medical information in the feedback form.
Preparation, with your medical team in mind
This is an early tool for organizing information and preparing questions. It can make mistakes. Check your handout, discuss it with your clinician, and use it to support the appointment—not to diagnose yourself or choose treatment.
Built from the work of being a patient.
Research scientist Cat Hicks, PhD developed the method to help navigate her own care and support other patients. She and agent engineer Danilo Campos are making that structured support easier to use.
Read Cat’s storyLet us know how it worked for you.
Please do not use this form to send confidential medical information. Share feedback about the tool, without medical records or other personal details you wouldn't want a stranger to know.