OpenAI CEO Sam Altman attends an event to introduce AI for enterprise in Tokyo on February 3, 2025.
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OpenAI on Wednesday announced ChatGPT Health, which will allow users to securely connect their medical records and wellness apps to the AI chatbot.
ChatGPT Health is not intended for diagnosis and treatment, and is not intended to replace medical care, OpenAI said. Rather, the experience is supposed to help users solve everyday questions and aims to make ChatGPT answers more relevant by basing them on the user's own health information.
“ChatGPT Health is another step in turning ChatGPT into a super personal assistant that can support you with information and tools to achieve your goals anywhere in your life,” Fidji Simo, CEO of applications at OpenAI, he wrote in a post on Substack.
OpenAI said that ChatGPT Health has its own dedicated space within the chatbot, so all those files, conversations, and connected apps are stored separately from other chats. ChatGPT Health information and memories will not flow outside of that space, and those conversations will not be used to train the base OpenAI models, the company said.
The startup has partnered with b.well, which provides the health data connectivity infrastructure that will allow users to share their medical records with ChatGPT Health.
Users will also be able to connect to Apple Health, MyFitnessPal, Weight Watchers, the lab test start function and other data. Services can be connected from tools or applications 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 released its GPT-5 model in August, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman told CNBC that healthcare was “perhaps the area where there is the strongest improvement of any category.”
In May, it published a benchmark called Health Bench that is designed to measure how well AI models perform in realistic health scenarios.
The startup said Wednesday that “hundreds of millions” of people ask questions about health and wellness every week.
ChatGPT Health will initially be available to a small group of early adopters who will provide feedback and refine the experience. OpenAI said it will expand access in the coming weeks.
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