OpenAI has officially unveiled ChatGPT Health, a specialized experience within ChatGPT designed specifically for health and wellness conversations. This new feature brings together your personal health information and ChatGPT’s intelligence in a secure environment, aiming to help users feel more informed, prepared, and confident when navigating their health journey.
The announcement comes at a time when health-related queries have become one of the most popular use cases for ChatGPT. According to OpenAI, over 230 million people globally ask health and wellness questions on ChatGPT every week. With ChatGPT Health, the company is taking this organic user behavior and building a dedicated, privacy-focused space around it.
What Exactly Is ChatGPT Health?
At its core, ChatGPT Health is a separate space within the ChatGPT interface where users can have health-related conversations that are informed by their actual medical data. Unlike regular ChatGPT conversations, Health allows you to connect your medical records, wellness apps, and health tracking devices to provide context-aware responses.
Think of it as having a knowledgeable health companion who actually knows your medical history, recent lab results, and fitness patterns. You can ask questions like “How’s my cholesterol trending?” or “Can you summarize my latest bloodwork before my appointment?” and get responses that are grounded in your real health data rather than generic information.
The key distinction OpenAI emphasizes is that ChatGPT Health is designed to support, not replace medical care. It’s not intended for diagnosis or treatment. Instead, it helps users navigate everyday health questions, understand patterns over time, and prepare for important conversations with their healthcare providers.
Connecting Your Health Data
One of the most powerful aspects of ChatGPT Health is its ability to integrate with various health data sources. Users in the United States can connect their medical records through a partnership with b.well, described as the largest and most secure network of live, connected health data for U.S. consumers. This gives ChatGPT access to lab results, visit summaries, and clinical history from trusted healthcare providers.
Beyond medical records, ChatGPT Health supports integration with several wellness and fitness apps. Here’s what you can connect:
New integrations launching with ChatGPT Health:
- Medical Records – Access lab results, visit summaries, and clinical history (U.S. only)
- Apple Health – Sync health and fitness data including movement, sleep, and activity patterns (requires iOS)
- Function – Get lab test insights, nutrition ideas, and actionable health recommendations
- MyFitnessPal – Receive nutrition advice, macro tracking, and recipe suggestions
- Weight Watchers – GLP-1 personalized meal ideas, recipes, and food guidance
Previously available integrations now enhanced for Health:
- AllTrails – Find your next hike based on your fitness level
- Instacart – Turn meal plans into shoppable grocery lists
- Peloton – Get suggested workout classes or guided meditations
Each app connection requires explicit permission, even if it’s already connected to regular ChatGPT. You can disconnect any app at any time, immediately revoking its access to your health data.
Privacy and Security: A Top Priority
Given the sensitive nature of health information, OpenAI has built ChatGPT Health with multiple layers of privacy and security protections that go beyond standard ChatGPT safeguards.
Dedicated Space with Isolation: Health operates as a separate space within ChatGPT. Your health conversations, connected apps, and uploaded files are stored separately from your other chats. Health has its own memory system, ensuring your health context stays contained within this dedicated space.
One-Way Information Flow: While ChatGPT may use context from your non-Health chats (like a recent move or lifestyle change) to make health conversations more relevant, the reverse is never true. Health information and memories never flow back into your regular chats. Conversations outside of Health cannot access files, conversations, or memories created within Health.
Enhanced Encryption: While all ChatGPT conversations are encrypted at rest and in transit, Health adds purpose-built encryption and isolation specifically designed for health data compartmentalization.
No Model Training: Conversations in ChatGPT Health are not used to train OpenAI’s foundation models. This is a significant commitment that addresses one of the most common concerns users have about sharing sensitive health information with AI systems.
Multi-Factor Authentication: Users can enable MFA to add an extra layer of protection against unauthorized access to their health data.
Easy Data Control: You can view or delete Health memories at any time within the Health section or through the Personalization settings. Medical record access can be removed anytime through the Apps section of Settings.
Built With Physicians, Evaluated by Clinical Standards
What sets ChatGPT Health apart from generic health chatbots is the depth of clinical expertise that has gone into its development. OpenAI worked with more than 260 physicians who have practiced in 60 countries across dozens of specialties over the course of two years.
These physicians helped shape not just what Health can do, but how it responds. They provided feedback on model outputs over 600,000 times across 30 areas of focus, helping the AI understand:
- How urgently to encourage follow-ups with a clinician
- How to communicate clearly without oversimplifying
- How to prioritize safety in critical moments
- How to respect individual context and circumstances
To evaluate the model’s performance, OpenAI created HealthBench, an assessment framework developed with input from practicing physicians. Unlike traditional AI evaluations that rely on exam-style questions or generic accuracy checks, HealthBench uses physician-written rubrics that reflect how clinicians actually judge quality in practice. The evaluation prioritizes safety, clarity, appropriate escalation of care, and respect for individual context.
This approach ensures the model performs well on real-world tasks people actually need help with, including explaining lab results in accessible language, preparing questions for appointments, interpreting data from wearables, and summarizing care instructions.
How to Get Started
ChatGPT Health is launching with a waitlist system. OpenAI is starting with a small group of early users to learn and refine the experience before broader rollout.
Who can sign up?
Users with ChatGPT Free, Go, Plus, and Pro plans outside of the European Economic Area, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom are eligible to join the waitlist. OpenAI plans to expand access and make Health available to all eligible users on web and iOS in the coming weeks.
Important limitations to note:
- Medical record integrations are available in the U.S. only
- Apple Health connection requires iOS
- Some wellness app integrations may have regional restrictions
Once you have access, getting started is straightforward:
- Select “Health” from the sidebar menu in ChatGPT
- Connect your data sources through the tools menu (+) or Apps in Settings
- Start asking health-related questions that will now be informed by your connected data
You can also add custom instructions within Health to help ChatGPT know what to focus on, avoid mentioning sensitive topics, or change how responses are framed. These instructions apply only to Health chats and can be updated or removed at any time.
A Smart Suggestion System
OpenAI has implemented a helpful feature for users who might start health-related conversations in regular ChatGPT. If you begin discussing health topics outside the Health space, ChatGPT will suggest moving into Health to take advantage of the additional privacy protections and personalized context.
This ensures users aren’t forced to remember to switch modes manually while still benefiting from the enhanced security when discussing sensitive health matters.
The Bigger Picture: AI as a Health Navigation Tool
ChatGPT Health represents a significant step in OpenAI’s broader vision of making AI more personal and contextually aware. While the company has been testing memory features and personalization throughout 2025, Health marks the first time a specialized, privacy-enhanced space has been created for a specific domain.
The timing is significant. Healthcare systems worldwide are struggling with accessibility issues, long wait times, and information fragmentation. Patients often find their health data scattered across multiple portals, apps, wearables, PDFs, and medical notes. ChatGPT Health aims to serve as a unifying layer that helps users make sense of all this information.
For healthcare providers, this could mean patients arriving at appointments better prepared, with clearer questions and a better understanding of their own health data. For patients, it means having a tireless assistant that can help translate medical jargon, track trends, and provide relevant context without the anxiety of waiting for a doctor’s appointment.
What ChatGPT Health Is Not
OpenAI has been clear about the boundaries of ChatGPT Health. It is not:
- A diagnostic tool – It won’t tell you what illness you have
- A treatment recommendation system – It won’t prescribe medications or treatment plans
- A replacement for medical care – It’s designed to complement, not substitute, professional healthcare
- A substitute for emergency services – Urgent health situations should always be directed to appropriate medical professionals
This careful positioning helps manage expectations while still delivering significant value for everyday health navigation, wellness tracking, and appointment preparation.
Looking Ahead
OpenAI has indicated that ChatGPT Health is “just the start.” The company plans to continue expanding what users can connect and the insights Health can support. This suggests we may see additional app integrations, more sophisticated health analysis capabilities, and potentially expanded availability in more regions over time.
As AI continues to evolve in the healthcare space, ChatGPT Health represents one of the most comprehensive consumer-facing implementations we’ve seen. Its emphasis on privacy, physician input, and clinical evaluation standards sets a high bar for AI health assistants.
For users who have been using ChatGPT for health questions already, this dedicated experience promises to transform those interactions from generic Q&A sessions into personalized, context-aware conversations that actually know your health story.
Source: https://openai.com/index/introducing-chatgpt-health/