OpenAI introduces ChatGPT Health to link users’ medical records
Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, attends an event showcasing AI for business in Tokyo on February 3, 2025.
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OpenAI announced ChatGPT Health on Wednesday, which will allow users to securely connect their medical records and wellness apps to the artificial intelligence chatbot.
ChatGPT Health is not intended for diagnosis and treatment and is not intended to replace medical care, OpenAI said. Rather, the experience is intended to help users navigate everyday questions and aims to make ChatGPT’s answers more relevant by basing them on the user’s own health information.
“ChatGPT Health is another step towards making ChatGPT a personal super assistant that can support you with information and tools to help you achieve your goals in every part of your life,” Fidji Simo, CEO of Applications at OpenAI wrote in a post on Substack.
According to OpenAI, ChatGPT Health has its own dedicated space within the chatbot, so all of these files, conversations, and connected apps are stored separately from other chats. Information and memories from ChatGPT Health are not shared outside of this scope and these conversations are not used to train OpenAI’s base models, the company said.
The startup has partnered with b.well, which provides the health data connectivity infrastructure that allows users to share their medical records with ChatGPT Health.
Users can also connect to Apple Health, MyFitnessPal, Weight Watchers, the Lab Test Startup feature and other data. Services can be connected via tools or apps in Settings.
ChatGPT Health was developed in “close collaboration” with doctors, OpenAI said.
OpenAI has deepened its push into healthcare in recent months.
After the company launched its GPT-5 model in August, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman told CNBC that healthcare is “perhaps the area where there is the most improvement of any category.”
In May, a benchmark called Health Bench was released to measure how well AI models work in realistic healthcare scenarios.
The startup said Wednesday that “hundreds of millions” of people ask questions about health and wellness every week.
ChatGPT Health will initially be made available to a small group of first-time users who will provide feedback and refine the experience. OpenAI said it would expand access in the coming weeks.
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