Introducing ChatGPT Health

Introducing ChatGPT Health | OpenAI

January 7, 2026

Introducing ChatGPT Health

A dedicated experience in ChatGPT designed for health and wellness.

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We’re introducing ChatGPT Health, a dedicated experience that securely brings your health information and ChatGPT’s intelligence together, to help you feel more informed, prepared, and confident navigating your health.

Health is already one of the most common ways people use ChatGPT, with hundreds of millions of people asking health and wellness questions each week. ChatGPT Health builds on the strong privacy, security, and data controls across ChatGPT with additional, layered protections designed specifically for health— including purpose-built encryption and isolation to keep health conversations protected and compartmentalized. You can securely connect medical records and wellness apps to ground conversations in your own health information, so responses are more relevant and useful to you. Designed in close collaboration with physicians, ChatGPT Health helps people take a more active role in understanding and managing their health and wellness—while supporting, not replacing, care from clinicians.

A dedicated health experience

Today, health information is often scattered across portals, apps, wearables, PDFs, and medical notes—so it's hard to see the full picture, and people are left to navigate a complex healthcare system on their own. People have shared countless stories of turning to ChatGPT to help make sense of it all. In fact, health is one of the most common ways people use ChatGPT today: based on our de-identified analysis of conversations, over 230 million people globally ask health and wellness related questions on ChatGPT every week.

ChatGPT Health builds on this so responses are informed by your health information and context. You can now securely connect medical records and wellness apps—like Apple Health, Function, and MyFitnessPal—so ChatGPT can help you understand recent test results, prepare for appointments with your doctor, get advice on how to approach your diet and workout routine, or understand the tradeoffs of different insurance options based on your healthcare patterns.

Health is designed to support, not replace, medical care. It is not intended for diagnosis or treatment. Instead, it helps you navigate everyday questions and understand patterns over time—not just moments of illness—so you can feel more informed and prepared for important medical conversations. To keep your health information protected and secure, Health operates as a separate space with enhanced privacy to protect sensitive data. Conversations in Health are not used to train our foundation models. If you start a health-related conversation in ChatGPT, we’ll suggest moving into Health for these additional protections.

If you’re interested in getting access as it becomes available, you can sign up for the waitlist⁠. We’re starting by providing access to a small group of early users to learn and continue refining the experience—users with ChatGPT Free, Go, Plus, and Pro plans outside of the European Economic Area, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom are eligible. As we make improvements, we plan to expand access and make Health available to all users on web and iOS in the coming weeks.

Medical record integrations and some apps are available in the U.S. only, and connecting Apple Health requires iOS.

Designed with privacy and security at the core

Your health information is deeply personal. That’s why Health is built as a dedicated space with added protections for sensitive health information and easy-to-use controls.

A dedicated space for Health

Health lives in its own space within ChatGPT, where your conversations, connected apps, and files are stored separately from your other chats. Health has separate memories, ensuring that your health context stays contained within the space. You’ll still see health chats in your chat history so you can easily return to them, but the information itself stays within Health.

When helpful, ChatGPT may use context from your non-Health chats—like a recent move or lifestyle change—to make a health conversation more relevant. However, Health information and memories never flow back into your non-Health chats, and conversations outside of Health can’t access files, conversations, or memories created within Health. You can view or delete Health memories at any time within Health or the “Personalization” section of Settings.

Protections and controls for sensitive information

We recognize that people share personal and sensitive information with ChatGPT. That understanding shapes how we design the security, privacy, and data controls⁠ for all of our products—from the start. Even before introducing ChatGPT Health, we built foundational protections across ChatGPT to give you meaningful control over your data, including temporary chats, the ability to delete chats from OpenAI’s systems within 30 days, and training our models not to retain personal information from user chats.

Conversations and files across ChatGPT are encrypted by default at rest and in transit as part of our core security architecture. Due to the sensitive nature of health data, Health builds on this foundation with additional, layered protections—including purpose-built encryption and isolation—to keep health conversations protected and compartmentalized. Conversations in Health are not used to train our foundation models.

You can further strengthen access controls by enabling multi-factor authentication (MFA)⁠, which adds an extra layer of protection to help prevent unauthorized access.

Securely connecting your information

When you choose to connect your health data, such as medical records or wellness apps, your responses are grounded in your own health information. To enable access to trusted U.S. healthcare providers, we partner with b.well, the largest and most secure network of live, connected health data for U.S. consumers. b.well adheres to the highest industry standards in data security and privacy. You can remove access to medical records at any time in the "Apps" section of Settings.

You can also connect your Apple Health information and other wellness apps, such as Function and MyFitnessPal. Apps may only be connected to your health data with your explicit permission, even if they’re already connected to ChatGPT for conversations outside of Health. All apps available in…