OpenAI has unveiled ChatGPT Health, a dedicated health experience designed to securely integrate users’ medical information and wellness data with ChatGPT’s AI capabilities. Developed over two years in collaboration with more than 260 physicians from 60 countries, ChatGPT Health draws on clinical expertise to ensure clear and accurate responses. The model is evaluated using HealthBench, an OpenAI framework built around physician-led standards for safety and clarity.
Health is already one of ChatGPT’s most common uses, with more than 230m people globally asking about symptoms and treatments every week. Personal health information today is fragmented across different platforms, often leaving people piecing together incomplete pictures of their own wellbeing. ChatGPT Health addresses this challenge by letting users securely connect their medical records and wellness apps like Apple Health and MyFitnessPal so conversations are grounded in their own personal data. Users can ask questions like “How’s my cholesterol trending?” or request summaries of recent bloodwork before appointments. OpenAI stresses that the service is designed to only support professional medical care, not replace it.
Privacy and security is integral to the software’s functioning. ChatGPT Health operates in a separate digital space with its own storage, encryption, and memory. Conversations and files in Health are isolated from other chats and are not used to train OpenAI’s foundation models. Additional protections, such as purpose-built encryption and multi-factor authentication, help safeguard sensitive data. Users will remain in control, with the ability to view, delete or disconnect app integrations at any time.
In the United States, OpenAI has partnered with data network b.well to facilitate secure medical record integration, so that apps connected within Health must meet strict privacy criteria and undergo additional review. For now, medical record integration and certain app features are only available in the U.S., with Apple Health sync limited to iOS devices. The rollout begins with a limited group of early users outside the European Economic Area, Switzerland, and the U.K., with plans to expand access to all users on web and iOS in the coming weeks.