OpenAI CEO Sam Altman attended an enterprise AI sales event held in Tokyo on February 3, 2025.
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OpenAI on Wednesday announced ChatGPT Health, which allows users to securely connect their medical records and wellness apps to artificial intelligence chatbots.
According to OpenAI, ChatGPT Health is not intended for diagnosis or treatment, and is not a substitute for medical care. Rather, this experience is supposed to help users address everyday questions, and aims to make ChatGPT’s answers more relevant based on users’ own health information.
“ChatGPT Health is another step in turning ChatGPT into a personal super assistant that can support you with the information and tools to achieve your goals in every aspect of your life,” said Fidji Simo, CEO of OpenAI Applications, in a post on Substack.
OpenAI says ChatGPT Health has its own dedicated space within the chatbot, so all these files, conversations, and connected apps are stored separately from other chats. Information and memories from ChatGPT Health do not flow outside of that space, and those conversations are not used to train OpenAI’s underlying models, the company said.
The startup has partnered with b.well, which provides health data connectivity infrastructure that allows users to share their medical records with ChatGPT Health.
Users will also be able to connect to apple Health, MyFitnessPal, Weight Watchers, Lab Test Startup Function and other data. You can connect to the service through the Settings tool or the app.
OpenAI says ChatGPT Health was developed in “close collaboration” with doctors.
OpenAI has deepened its focus on healthcare in recent months.
After the company announced its GPT-5 model in August, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman told CNBC that healthcare is “probably the area where we’re seeing the most improvement of any category.”
In May, it released a benchmark called Health Bench designed to measure how well its AI models perform in realistic health scenarios.
The company announced 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 initial users who will provide feedback and refine the experience. OpenAI said it will expand access in the coming weeks.
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