King Hussein Cancer Center · AI & Data Intelligence
Claude Cowork in 30 minutes
Chat answers you. Cowork does the work: it reads your files, makes a plan, runs it, and hands back a finished document. Eight short blocks, every demo on synthetic data.
The real Claude Desktop home screen. Personal titles are blurred.
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Run of show
What Cowork is
Chat versus Cowork versus Claude Code. What changed in September 2026.
Set up: app, folder, project, instructions
Install Claude Desktop, give Cowork one working folder, set standing instructions.
Go deeper: CLAUDE.md, standing orders for a folder
Five clashing ward policies in, a linked wiki and a quality review out. Optional if time allows.
Your first task
Brief it, watch the plan, steer mid-task, collect a Word, Excel or PowerPoint file.
Reach out: connectors, browser, computer use
How Cowork reaches email, Drive and the web, and in which order it tries them.
Skills and plugins
Save your house style once. Install a plugin for a whole role.
Put it on a schedule
/schedule a weekly digest. Review every run.
Safe use at KHCC
Permission modes, patient data, prompt injection, what never goes in a Cowork folder.
Close: cheat sheet and one task per role
The printable handout. Pick one task and run it this week.
Watch at home: Learn 80% of Cowork in 20 minutes
Jeff Su's video, chapter by chapter, linked to each block, with KHCC versions of his examples.