OpenAI Unveils ChatGPT Health: A Tool for Personalized Wellness or a Riskscape Waiting to Happen?

OpenAI’s ChatGPT Health enters a space where millions already turn to AI for health advice late at night, raising questions about trust, accuracy, and the future of patient-doctor dynamics.

OpenAI has launched ChatGPT Health, a tool allowing users to link medical records and wellness data to ask health-related questions. Hundreds of millions of people globally already use ChatGPT weekly for health inquiries, including symptom interpretation and insurance language assistance.

The tool emphasizes preparation for clinical visits rather than replacing clinicians, enabling users to upload lab results, visit summaries, and link wellness apps like Apple Health.

OpenAI positions the product as informational, coinciding with new FDA guidance that excludes low-risk wellness tools from strict medical device regulation. Privacy measures include compartmentalized data storage, encryption, and user control over health-specific memories; training data for the tool will not use ChatGPT Health conversations.

Risks highlighted include AI-generated clinical harm, automation bias, and potential delays in seeking professional care.

Rollout begins in the US with phased expansion; medical record integrations will remain limited to the US initially. No independent expert commentary was included in the source.