OpenAI has introduced ChatGPT Health, a dedicated experience within ChatGPT designed to help people better understand, manage, and navigate their health and wellness.
This new feature securely combines users’ personal health information with ChatGPT’s intelligence, enabling more informed, relevant, and personalized conversations while prioritizing privacy, safety, and user control.
As millions of people already turn to ChatGPT each week for health-related questions, ChatGPT Health marks a major step toward delivering more tailored, supportive, and secure wellness guidance for everyday life.
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The feature builds on users’ behavior by offering an environment specifically designed for sensitive health information, with enhanced privacy protections, purpose-built encryption, and data isolation to ensure conversations remain secure and compartmentalized.
Announcing the rollout of ChatGPT Health, the OpenAI wrote via a blogpost,
“We’re introducing ChatGPT Health, a dedicated experience that securely brings your health information and ChatGPT’s intelligence together, to help you feel more informed, prepared, and confident navigating your health.”
ChatGPT Health is currently rolling out to a limited group of early users, with plans to expand access in the coming weeks. Users on Free, Go, Plus, and Pro plans outside the EEA, Switzerland, and the UK are eligible for early access.
Today, health data is often scattered across multiple platforms apps, portals, PDFs, wearables, and medical notes making it difficult for individuals to see the full picture of their wellbeing. ChatGPT Health brings these sources together, allowing users to securely connect medical records and wellness apps such as Apple Health, Function, and MyFitnessPal.
With these connections, ChatGPT Health can help users interpret lab results, prepare for doctor appointments, understand lifestyle patterns, explore nutrition and fitness insights, and evaluate insurance options based on personal health trends. However, the experience is designed to support not replace clinical care, empowering users to feel more informed and prepared for conversations with healthcare professionals.
Privacy and Security at the Core
Recognizing the deeply personal nature of health data, OpenAI has built ChatGPT Health with multiple layers of protection. All conversations are encrypted by default, both at rest and in transit. Health adds additional safeguards, including specialized encryption and data isolation.
Health exists in its own dedicated environment, where chats, files, and connected apps are stored separately from other ChatGPT conversations. While limited non-health context such as lifestyle changes may be used to improve relevance, health data never flows into non-health chats. Users can review, manage, or delete Health memories at any time.
Users can also choose to connect their medical records and wellness apps to ChatGPT Health. In the U.S., OpenAI partners with b.well, a secure healthcare data network, to enable access to trusted medical providers. Users can revoke access at any time.
Built with Physicians
ChatGPT Health was developed in close collaboration with over 260 physicians across 60 countries and multiple specialties. Their feedback provided more than 600,000 times has shaped how the system responds to health questions, emphasizing clarity, safety, appropriate escalation, and responsible guidance.
The system is evaluated using HealthBench, a physician-informed framework that assesses responses based on real-world clinical standards rather than simple accuracy tests. This ensures ChatGPT Health is helpful for tasks such as explaining lab results, summarizing care instructions, preparing appointment questions, and interpreting wearable data.
Outlook
As ChatGPT Health expands to more users globally, it is expected to play a growing role in how individuals interact with and understand their personal health data.
By centralizing fragmented medical and wellness information into a single, intelligent interface, the platform could help users become more proactive, informed, and engaged in their care journeys.