AI That Reads Medical Records and Apple Health Data
OpenAI has just launched something that sounds like science fiction. Your AI chatbot can now read your medical records, connect to your Apple Health data, and give you health advice. It’s called ChatGPT Health. Today, let’s explore what it plans to do. Over 230 million people already ask ChatGPT health questions every week. But until now, the answers were generic. ChatGPT Health plans to change that. You can securely connect your medical records through a partner called b.well, the largest network of U.S. healthcare data. You can even link your account from Apple Health, MyFitnessPal, Function Labs, or even Peloton.
Now ChatGPT can even access your lab results. Your fitness data. Your medication history. It gives you answers tailored specifically to you. Here’s what you can actually use it for. It explains your lab results simply, so you’re not constantly Googling medical jargon at midnight. It can even help you prepare questions before your doctor’s appointment. It interprets the data from your wearables, like why your sleep score dropped or what your heart rate patterns mean. It can even help you understand your discharge instructions after a hospital visit.
Even the CEO of OpenAI Applications shared her own story. She was prescribed an antibiotic after a kidney stone. ChatGPT flagged that it could reactivate a life-threatening infection she’d had years before. Her doctor thanked her for speaking up. Your health data lives in a separate, encrypted space. It’s isolated from your regular ChatGPT chats. OpenAI says your health data will live in a separate space. They won’t be able to use your medical conversations to train their AI models. And you can delete your health data at any time.
But here’s the important part: ChatGPT Health is not for diagnosis or treatment. It’s not replacing your doctor. It’s designed to help you understand and navigate your health between appointments.
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