Launching Health in ChatGPT

Launching Health in ChatGPT | OpenAI

July 23, 2026

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Launching Health in ChatGPT

Rolling out to U.S. users, you can securely connect your health information to help you better understand and navigate your health.

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Health in ChatGPT is launching to U.S. users. You can choose to securely connect Apple Health and supported medical records so ChatGPT can help you understand your information in context, keep track of what has changed, and have more informed, personalized conversations. The experience builds on feedback from early testers and gives you control over what you connect and when ChatGPT can use it.

Every week, more than 300 million people turn to ChatGPT with health-related questions—from understanding a lab result and preparing for an appointment to making sense of what a doctor said and building a healthier routine. But the context behind those questions is often scattered across patient portals, medical records, apps, and wearables, making it difficult to see and act on the complete picture.

With your permission, ChatGPT can now draw on relevant information you’ve connected in Health to help you compare a new result with prior tests, summarize changes since your last appointment, or explore how sleep, activity, and workouts relate to your routine. This can reduce the need to repeatedly gather, upload, or explain the same details, helping you feel more informed, ask better questions, and take a more active role in your health while supporting, not replacing, the care you receive from medical professionals.

We’re continuing to improve the models behind health conversations so ChatGPT can reason more carefully across complex details, explain health information clearly, ask for missing context, and recognize when professional care may be needed. GPT‑5.5 Instant brought frontier health intelligence to all free users. GPT‑5.6 Sol builds on that progress with even stronger performance on more complex questions.

Health is built with layered privacy and security safeguards. Connected medical records and Apple Health information, and conversations that use it, are not used to train our foundation models or target ads. We’re beginning to roll out Health to logged-in ChatGPT users 18 and older in the U.S. on web and iOS across Free, Go, Plus, and Pro plans today. Open Health from the sidebar in ChatGPT to get started. Health is not yet available in Codex.

What early users are saying

“The most useful part has been turning scattered medical history into something I can actually understand and explain. I have multiple overlapping issues and ChatGPT helped connect those pieces into a clear timeline, explain the medical terms in plain English, and create summaries I could share with a physical therapist or trainer.

This has helped me feel less lost in my own health history. Instead of just seeing disconnected diagnoses, imaging results, and surgery notes, I could understand the bigger pattern. It made the information more usable and gave me better language to advocate for myself with providers and trainers.”

—Blake, technical program manager

Health conversations grounded in your information

Earlier this year, we introduced a dedicated health experience⁠ to a limited group of users that required visiting a separate space in ChatGPT to get the full benefit. Early testing showed that health questions often arose naturally in the course of conversations. For example, while planning meals or looking for recipes, someone might want ChatGPT to take a food allergy or dietary restriction into account. Among people with access, more than 70% of health-related conversations took place outside the dedicated health experience. Moving to a separate space added an unnecessary step.

Based on that feedback, you can now choose to let ChatGPT draw on relevant information you’ve connected in Health across your conversations, without needing to start within Health. With your permission, ChatGPT can consider relevant information you have connected, such as medications, lab results, recent visits, sleep, and activity, alongside the goals and context you share. This added context can make everyday conversations more useful. For example, ChatGPT can consider a dietary restriction when helping you choose a restaurant, or a recent injury when planning lower-impact weekend activities with your family. You can ask follow-up questions, add context, or correct information that is incomplete or out of date.

Health, in the left sidebar, remains your home base for connecting and managing your information, seeing recent data and trends, exploring suggested prompts, browsing synced records, and returning to past health conversations.

Improving health intelligence with physicians

We use dedicated training to improve the models behind health conversations in ChatGPT. GPT‑5.5 Instant, available to users on the Free plan, has made meaningful gains in recognizing when urgent care may be needed, asking for relevant context, explaining uncertainty, and making complex information easier to understand. On our most challenging health evaluations, it performed at a level comparable to our frontier Thinking models at the time of evaluation. Learn more about those results and our work with physicians⁠.

GPT‑5.6 Sol⁠, available to paid users, is our strongest model yet for health. It builds on our progress with stronger performance on tasks that require reasoning across complex details, clear communication, and careful judgment. It can help explain a visit note in plain language, understand how lab results have changed over time, consider the factors across options a doctor discussed, or prepare questions for a follow-up appointment.

To measure progress, we work with hundreds of physicians around the world to develop realistic health scenarios and detailed rubrics that define what a strong response should do. These evaluations assess qualities including accuracy, safety, communication, context awareness, completeness, and appropriate escalation. Every GPT‑5.6 model outperformed GPT‑5.5 on

HealthBench Professional⁠(opens in a new window), an evaluation of AI performance on challenging health tasks.

Finally, physicians extensively tested Health in ChatGPT before release, helping us measure and improve real-world model performance and safety with connected health data. While these results represent meaningful progress and we are continuously improving our models, ChatGPT can still...