OpenAI’s New ChatGPT Health Wants You to Connect Your Medical Records

OpenAI has made ChatGPT Health, its wellness-focused AI tool, available to all US users on free, Go, Plus, and Pro plans.

OpenAI pitches ChatGPT Health as helping users understand their lab results, enhance their sleep or physical activity, prepare questions to ask their doctors, and more. To do so, though, users are encouraged to connect their Apple Health, MyFitnessPal, One Medical, Function, or other supported medical record sources. This data purportedly helps ChatGPT Health understand recent test results and even compare health insurance options based on previous insurance use.

That’s a pretty big ask, privacy-wise. OpenAI says it keeps health data separate from model training and advertising and claims to use additional privacy controls, including “purpose-built encryption and isolation,” for connected health information. Users can choose whether ChatGPT accesses connected data for each request or allow access by default. Still, we’d be remiss if we didn’t mention that health data reveals highly sensitive details about a person’s body and habits, and that connecting multiple health apps can increase a person’s risk of being affected by a data breach.

We’ve also all seen over the past couple of years how generative AI models can easily dish out incorrect advice. Earlier this year, a study revealed that Google’s AI Overviews used YouTube for health queries more than any other source, and AI chatbots are proving particularly dangerous for those experiencing mental health crises. OpenAI warns that ChatGPT can make mistakes and should not replace a doctor’s judgment, but research from just a few months ago suggests that health concerns fed to ChatGPT are often “undertriaged,” meaning the system doesn’t encourage users to seek urgent medical help as often as it should. That could pose a real risk to users whose queries or integrated health data indicate symptoms that require immediate medical attention.

Nevertheless, if you want to give ChatGPT Health a try, it’s now available to US adults on the web and iOS. The tool is being rolled out gradually, so some users might not see it right away. You can join the waitlist if it’s not yet visible for you.

Disclosure: Ziff Davis, ExtremeTech’s parent company, filed a lawsuit against OpenAI in April 2025, alleging it infringed Ziff Davis’s copyrights in training and operating its AI systems.