Launching Health in ChatGPT
OpenAI is launching Health in ChatGPT for eligible U.S. users, allowing them to securely connect Apple Health and supported medical records. The feature integrates health data across everyday conversations to provide personalized insights and help users understand their health information. The launch introduces two models, GPT-5.5 Instant and GPT-5.6 Sol, while incorporating strict privacy safeguards that exclude health data from foundation model training and ad targeting.
The Core Development
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.
Real-World Use Cases & Applications
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 make mistakes and does not replace the care and judgment of qualified medical professionals. We encourage people to verify important information and discuss medical decisions with their healthcare provider.
Strategic Perspective & Ecosystem Impact
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.
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.
Why it matters
This release demonstrates how generative AI platforms are integrating deeply personal biometric and medical data into everyday assistants. By coupling advanced reasoning models with explicit privacy guarantees and user permission controls, OpenAI sets a precedent for handling sensitive vertical data in conversational AI.