OpenAI on Tuesday announced the launch of ChatGPT Health, a dedicated experience designed to help users better understand and manage their health by securely integrating personal medical information with the company’s artificial intelligence tools.
The company said ChatGPT Health builds on the growing use of its chatbot for health-related questions, noting that more than 230 million people worldwide ask about health and wellness on ChatGPT each week. The new feature allows users to connect electronic health records and fitness applications, such as Apple Health and MyFitnessPal, so conversations can be grounded in individual health data while remaining private and secure.
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“ChatGPT Health is built on a foundation of strong privacy, security and data control,” OpenAI said in its announcement, adding that conversations within the Health experience are encrypted, isolated from other chats and “not used to train our base models.” The company stressed that the tool is intended to support, not replace, medical care, and does not provide diagnoses or treatment.
ChatGPT Health introduces a separate space within the platform where health-related conversations, files and connected apps are stored independently. According to OpenAI, this structure ensures that sensitive information remains confined to the Health environment, even if limited context from non-health chats is used to make responses more relevant.
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The company said the feature was developed in close collaboration with more than 260 doctors across 60 countries, whose input helped shape safety standards and response quality. OpenAI plans to begin with a small group of early users and expand access to all users on the web and iOS in the coming weeks, with some integrations initially limited to the United States.
Source: OpenAI