OpenAI Launches ChatGPT Health for 230M Weekly Users
OpenAI just launched ChatGPT Health, a dedicated health experience inside ChatGPT that lets people connect medical records, wearables, and wellness apps. Over 230 million users already ask ChatGPT Health questions each week.
OpenAI’s announcement reveals ChatGPT Health transforms the world’s most popular AI assistant into a health companion. OpenAI is targeting users who need help explaining lab results, syncing apps, and preparing for doctor visits through ChatGPT Health.
TechCrunch reports that more than 230 million people globally ask health and wellness questions on ChatGPT every week. That’s roughly 1 in 4 regular users making ChatGPT Health a natural evolution for OpenAI.
Why OpenAI Built ChatGPT Health
Health has quietly become one of the dominant use cases for ChatGPT. OpenAI says that sheer demand forced a dedicated solution through ChatGPT Health.
Fierce Healthcare notes that 230 million weekly health questions represent massive volume. That means ChatGPT was already a de facto “front door” for health information before ChatGPT Health launched.
OpenAI’s head of applications Fidji Simo frames ChatGPT Health as a response to real-world problems. High costs, short appointments, fragmented portals, and people being left to decipher lab PDFs alone drive demand for ChatGPT Health.
Instead of scattering health questions across normal chats, ChatGPT Health creates a protected, health-specific space designed with clinical input and extra safeguards.
What ChatGPT Health Actually Does
ChatGPT Health appears as a dedicated tab in the ChatGPT interface on web and iOS at launch. Health-related conversations and data live in their own silo through ChatGPT Health.
Health-Focused Chat Experience
Axios coverage shows ChatGPT Health includes a separate “Health” section. You can ask about symptoms, lab results, medications, nutrition, fitness, and mental-wellness topics through ChatGPT Health.
If you start a health conversation in a normal chat, ChatGPT gently nudges you into ChatGPT Health for extra protections.
App and Data Integration
Users can optionally connect medical records and wellness data through ChatGPT Health. Apps like Apple Health, MyFitnessPal, WeightWatchers, Function, AllTrails, Peloton, and Instacart connect to ChatGPT Health.
Once connected, ChatGPT Health can interpret step counts, heart-rate trends, weight changes, workout history, and food logs. The system provides more personalized insights through ChatGPT Health integrations.
Practical Health Tasks
Reuters reports that ChatGPT Health explains lab and test results in plain language. The system helps prepare questions for medical appointments and summarizes after-visit instructions.
ChatGPT Health interprets patterns from wearables and wellness apps. For example, “My resting heart rate went up this month” gets analyzed through ChatGPT Health with suggested questions for clinicians.
OpenAI stresses that ChatGPT Health is not a replacement for professional medical care. The system makes people more informed when interacting with real clinicians.
Privacy and Safety in ChatGPT Health
Because health is uniquely sensitive, OpenAI designed ChatGPT Health as a sandboxed environment with extra technical and policy controls.
Isolated Health Silo
The Hacker News details that ChatGPT Health conversations are stored in a separate, encrypted silo. Health-specific memory through ChatGPT Health is not shared with non-Health chats.
Non-Health conversations cannot access files or conversations from ChatGPT Health. Health memory is not used to shape general ChatGPT responses outside ChatGPT Health.
No Training on Health Data
OpenAI states that conversations within ChatGPT Health are not used to train foundation models. This tightens data-use policy beyond standard ChatGPT settings for ChatGPT Health.
App Permissions
Apps must request explicit user consent before accessing health data through ChatGPT Health. Every app in the ChatGPT Health ecosystem must meet additional privacy and security requirements.
Model Evaluation
OpenAI evaluated the model powering ChatGPT Health on HealthBench, a benchmark released in 2025. The benchmark ensures ChatGPT Health explains limits, recognizes red-flag scenarios, and recommends escalation to clinicians when appropriate.
Doctor Collaboration on ChatGPT Health
Euronews reports that OpenAI developed ChatGPT Health “in close collaboration with physicians.”
Over the last two years, more than 260 physicians across 60 countries and dozens of specialties reviewed health-related outputs. They provided over 600,000 annotations that shaped ChatGPT Health.
Their feedback focused on accuracy, safety including when to refer or escalate, readability, and how well answers matched real patient needs through ChatGPT Health.
Availability and Limitations
ChatGPT Health is starting with a limited rollout and important regional exclusions affecting OpenAI’s launch.
Platforms and Access
OpenAI’s help page shows ChatGPT Health is available on Web and iOS at launch. Android support is coming soon for ChatGPT Health.
The feature is accessible to users on ChatGPT Free, Go, Plus, and Pro with a waitlist for early access to ChatGPT Health.
Regional Restrictions
ChatGPT Health is initially not available in the European Economic Area, Switzerland, or the U.K. This likely reflects regulatory complexities around health data and AI affecting OpenAI’s rollout.
Important Limitations
ChatGPT Health is not a medical device, not FDA-cleared, and not intended for diagnosis or emergency triage. The system cannot see your full medical history unless you explicitly connect records through ChatGPT Health.
Quality of answers depends on model limitations. Hallucinations, outdated knowledge, or cultural mismatches remain risks even with HealthBench and physician-aligned tuning in ChatGPT Health.
OpenAI and external commentators stress: use ChatGPT Health to understand and prepare—not to self-diagnose or skip care.
What ChatGPT Health Means
Fortune analyzes that ChatGPT Health is OpenAI’s bid to become a central hub for personal health data.
For OpenAI, ChatGPT Health moves the company deeper into regulated, high-stakes territory. Success could mean partnerships with health systems, insurers, and device makers through ChatGPT Health.
For users, ChatGPT Health formalizes behavior already happening at scale. It adds structure, privacy, and guardrails to health questions through OpenAI’s AI system.
For the broader ecosystem, ChatGPT Health intensifies competition among Big Tech to be the AI “front door” to healthcare alongside Google and Apple.
The Bottom Line
OpenAI launched ChatGPT Health as 230 million users seek health answers each week. The dedicated health experience inside ChatGPT lets people connect medical records, wearables, and wellness apps.
ChatGPT Health transforms the AI assistant into a privacy-hardened health companion. The system explains lab results, syncs apps, and prepares users for real doctor visits through OpenAI’s platform.
ChatGPT Health includes a separate encrypted silo where health conversations and data live. OpenAI does not use ChatGPT Health conversations to train foundation models.
Over 260 physicians across 60 countries provided 600,000 annotations that shaped ChatGPT Health. The system connects Apple Health, MyFitnessPal, Peloton, and other wellness apps.
ChatGPT Health is available on web and iOS with Android coming soon. The feature is not available in the EEA, Switzerland, or U.K. affecting OpenAI’s initial rollout.
ChatGPT Health is not a medical device and not intended for diagnosis. OpenAI stresses using ChatGPT Health to understand and prepare—not to replace professional medical care.
Author: M. Huzaifa Rizwan
