OpenAI Launches 'Health in ChatGPT' to Securely Connect Medical Records and Apple Health

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.

Based on user 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 a dedicated health tab. With your permission, ChatGPT can consider relevant information you have connected alongside your daily goals. 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.

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.

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. Every GPT‑5.6 model outperformed GPT‑5.5 on HealthBench Professional, an evaluation of AI performance on challenging health tasks.

Health is built with layered privacy and security safeguards. All ChatGPT conversations are encrypted at rest and in transit, and information connected in Health receives additional encryption protections. The information connected in Health is not used to train our foundation models or target ads, regardless of the model-training setting you choose for ChatGPT. You decide when ChatGPT can use the information, and you can disconnect your Health information at any time.