OpenAI launches ChatGPT Health to connect user medical records, wellness apps

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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman attends an lawsuit to transportation AI for businesses successful Tokyo, Feb. 3, 2025.

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OpenAI connected Wednesday announced ChatGPT Health, which volition let users to securely link their aesculapian records and wellness apps to the artificial intelligence chatbot.

ChatGPT Health is not intended for diagnosis and treatment, and it's not expected to regenerate aesculapian care, OpenAI said. Rather, the acquisition is expected to assistance users navigate mundane questions, and it aims marque ChatGPT's responses much applicable by grounding them successful a user's ain wellness information.

"ChatGPT Health is different measurement toward turning ChatGPT into a idiosyncratic super-assistant that tin enactment you with accusation and tools to execute your goals crossed immoderate portion of your life," Fidji Simo, CEO of applications astatine OpenAI, wrote successful a post connected Substack.

OpenAI said ChatGPT Health has its ain dedicated abstraction wrong the chatbot, truthful each of those files, conversations and connected apps are stored separately from different chats. Information and memories from ChatGPT Health volition not travel extracurricular of that space, and those conversations volition not beryllium utilized to bid OpenAI's instauration models, the institution said.

The startup has partnered with b.well, which provides the wellness information connectivity infrastructure that volition let users to stock their aesculapian records with ChatGPT Health.

Users volition besides beryllium capable to link to Apple Health, MyFitnessPal, Weight Watchers, the laboratory investigating startup Function and different data. Services tin beryllium connected from tools oregon apps successful settings.

ChatGPT Health was developed successful "close collaboration" with physicians, OpenAI said.

OpenAI has deepened its propulsion into wellness attraction successful caller months.

After the institution launched its GPT-5 model successful August, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman told CNBC that wellness attraction was "maybe the country wherever there's the strongest betterment of immoderate category."

In May, it released a benchmark called Health Bench that is designed to measurement however good AI models execute successful realistic wellness scenarios.

The startup said Wednesday that "hundreds of millions" of radical inquire wellness and wellness questions each week.

ChatGPT Health volition initially beryllium made disposable to a tiny radical of aboriginal users that volition connection feedback and refine the experience. OpenAI said it volition grow entree successful the coming weeks.

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