ChatGPT Health Launches in the US with Apple Health and Medical Records Integration
Launching Health in ChatGPT to US Users
We are launching Health in ChatGPT to US users, allowing secure connections to Apple Health and medical records for personalized insights. This feature helps users understand scattered health data, track changes, and have informed conversations without replacing professional care. With advanced models like GPT-5.6 Sol and strict privacy safeguards, you control when your data is used, ensuring it never trains our foundation models or targets ads.
The most useful part has been turning scattered medical history into something I can actually understand and explain, helping me feel less lost in my own health history.
- skilled
I think doctors are going to lose their minds or at the very least get extremely agitated/frustrated as patients increasingly use AI tools to do self-research for symptoms and diagnosis. And I know this because I am guilty of this myself and recently had a dentist tell me to not do that. And this applies to so many health workers, your GP as well as your physical therapist, etc.
Recently I had Claude analyze an MRI of my knee and it gave me five different potential problems, but once I got the radiologist report - none of those problems were present, it did not detect that it was chondromalacia that I found out from the radiologist report.
Health and the current iteration of LLM's just doesn't seem like a great match.
- powerpcmac
Specific tools for MDs to record patient notes were found to hallucinate patient details in 45% of cases. They were especially bad on patient mental health. I am against AI in healthcare in most cases, but anything other than augmentation is probably never going to be happening.
https://www.auditor.on.ca/en/content/specialreports/specialr...
- trymas
Americans will do everything but not have socialised health care even though they are already leading the world on taxes spent per capita for health care.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_total_hea...
Also, what is HIPPA?
- robot_jesus
I’m intrigued by the power of these models to help me take more control of my healthcare.
Sure, doctors’ advice is best, but sometimes I wait 6 months to get to see a specialist who seems hell bent on getting through our appt as quickly as possible.
Models are infinitely patient and can see a lot more context about my health.
But, the privacy is a big question mark. The page extensively reassures on privacy (no model training, encrypted, no ads, can be deleted). There’s only one part that stands out to me:
> Memory remains in your control. To personalize future chats, memories can be created from your Health conversations. Memories are not created directly from connected medical records and Apple Health information. If you’d like to have a conversation without creating memories, you can use Temporary Chat (opens in a new window) or turn memory off in Settings > Memory.
Great that you can turn it off in settings but I wonder how many people will do that and how much sensitive context leakage will come out of your conversations and suddenly you’ll get ads for rashes and whatnot.
- openasocket
Searching in vain for any mention of HIPAA compliance…