# OpenAI Lets ChatGPT Draw on Connected Health Records Across Conversations

**OpenAI is rolling out Health in ChatGPT to U.S. adults, letting connected medical records and Apple Health inform any conversation.**

## What's launching

OpenAI is rolling out Health in ChatGPT to logged-in U.S. users who are 18 and older, on web and iOS, across the Free, Go, Plus, and Pro plans. With permission, users can securely connect Apple Health and supported medical records from U.S. hospital systems, One Medical, or Function Health, so ChatGPT can draw on that information to help compare a new test result with prior ones, summarize what changed since the last appointment, or connect patterns across sleep, activity, and workouts. OpenAI says Health is not yet available in Codex.

## Why OpenAI is changing how Health works

OpenAI says more than 300 million people already turn to ChatGPT with health-related questions every week. Earlier this year, the company offered a separate, dedicated Health space to a limited group of users, but found that more than 70% of health-related conversations happened outside that dedicated space, arising naturally while people were doing other things, like planning meals around a dietary restriction. Based on that, OpenAI is now letting ChatGPT use connected Health information across ordinary conversations, with permission, rather than requiring people to start inside a separate Health tab.

## Privacy and control OpenAI describes

OpenAI says connected medical records and Apple Health information, along with conversations that use that data, are not used to train its foundation models or to target ads, regardless of a user's separate model-training setting. By default, ChatGPT asks permission before using connected Health information, though users can choose to always allow access. Users can disconnect their Health information at any time, and OpenAI says synced data from a disconnected source is deleted from its systems within 30 days, though information already inside existing chat history remains until those conversations are deleted. OpenAI also says memories are not created directly from connected medical records or Apple Health data.

## What OpenAI says Health is not

OpenAI is explicit that Health is designed to support, not replace, the care people get from medical professionals, and is not intended for diagnosis or treatment. OpenAI encourages people to verify important information and discuss medical decisions with their healthcare provider. The company also says physicians extensively tested Health before release, and that it uses dedicated training, developed with input from physicians, to improve how its models handle health conversations, including on an evaluation OpenAI calls HealthBench Professional.

## Key facts

- Health in ChatGPT is rolling out to logged-in U.S. users 18 and older on web and iOS.
- Users can connect Apple Health and supported medical records from U.S. hospital systems, One Medical, or Function Health.
- OpenAI says more than 300 million people ask ChatGPT health questions weekly, and over 70% of health conversations already happened outside the dedicated Health space.
- Connected Health data and conversations that use it are excluded from foundation-model training and ad targeting.
- Disconnected Health data is deleted from OpenAI's systems within 30 days; OpenAI says Health does not replace professional medical care.

## Check your understanding

- Which health data sources can U.S. users connect to ChatGPT's Health feature?
- What does OpenAI say happens to synced health data after a user disconnects a source?

## Sources

- [OpenAI: Launching Health in ChatGPT](https://openai.com/index/health-in-chatgpt)

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- Category: know (announcement)
- Affects: US patients · Apple Health users
- Published: 2026-07-23T00:00:00.000Z
- Original: https://openai.com/index/health-in-chatgpt
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