Making ChatGPT better for clinicians

Built for clinical work, ChatGPT for Clinicians is now available for free to verified individual clinicians in the U.S.

We’re introducing ChatGPT for Clinicians, a version of ChatGPT designed to support clinical tasks like documentation and medical research so clinicians can focus on delivering high-quality patient care. We’re making it free for any verified physician, NP, PA, or pharmacist, starting in the U.S.

The U.S. healthcare system today is under extraordinary strain. Clinicians are being asked to care for more patients while managing growing administrative demands and a rapidly expanding body of medical research. Many are already turning to AI tools like ChatGPT for support. According to a 2026 survey by the American Medical Association ⁠ (opens in a new window) , physician use of AI is now at an all-time high, with 72% of physicians reporting they now use AI in clinical practice, up from 48% last year. Today, millions of clinicians worldwide use ChatGPT to support their clinical care every week, for applications like care consult, writing and documentation, and medical research. Clinician usage of ChatGPT has more than doubled over the past year.

As demand for AI in clinical settings grows, so does the responsibility to continuously improve our model’s performance and safety on clinical use cases and offer solutions that can safely and effectively support healthcare workflows. Earlier this year, we introduced ChatGPT for Healthcare, ⁠ which allows organizations to deploy ChatGPT to clinicians, administrators, and researchers with the compliance and controls they need at scale. Clinicians across leading U.S. health systems are now using it to move faster through administrative work like medical research and documentation, and get time back for patient care.

ChatGPT for Clinicians builds on our foundation of continual model evaluation and improvement in health in partnership with clinicians. With its release, we are also introducing HealthBench Professional ⁠ (opens in a new window) , an open benchmark for real clinician chat tasks across three use cases: care consult, writing and documentation, and medical research, building on HealthBench’s ⁠ broader evaluation of health conversations.

Our team worked with hundreds of physician advisors to inform and improve capabilities for ChatGPT for Clinicians, and ensure they support key clinician use cases.

Enabling free access to ChatGPT for Clinicians is the next step, in support of our mission to ensure AGI benefits all of humanity. Learn more on our website ⁠ (opens in a new window) or get started ⁠ (opens in a new window) .

Optional support for HIPAA compliance: Many clinical tasks don’t require PHI, but if needed, HIPAA support is available through a Business Associate Agreement (BAA) for eligible accounts.

That rigor also shaped the development of ChatGPT for Clinicians. Before release, physician advisors tested 6,924 conversations in their daily work across clinical care, documentation, and research. Overall, physicians rated 99.6% of responses as safe and accurate. On a subset of 355 examples where for each, three independent physicians specified ground-truth citations, ChatGPT for Clinicians cited those sources more often than human physicians. Even so, ChatGPT for Clinicians is designed to support clinicians with information, not replace their judgment or expertise.

Skills for repeatable clinical workflows: Turn common workflows into reusable skills so ChatGPT can follow the same steps each time for tasks like referral letters, prior auth, and patient instructions.

Trusted clinical search: Reason through cases faster and with greater confidence with real-time, cited answers based on evidence from millions of reputable, peer-reviewed medical sources.

Deep research across medical journals : Delegate medical literature reviews to ChatGPT, set the sources you trust, steer the research if needed, and let it compile a comprehensive, well-cited report in minutes.