OpenAI Launches ChatGPT Health With b.well to Connect Medical Records and Wellness Apps

OpenAI has announced the launch of ChatGPT Health, a new experience within its chatbot designed to let users securely connect their medical records and wellness applications. The company has positioned the product as a support tool for navigating everyday health and wellness questions, rather than a replacement for professional medical care.

According to OpenAI, ChatGPT Health is not intended for diagnosis or treatment. Instead, it aims to make responses more relevant by grounding them in a user’s own health information while maintaining strict boundaries around clinical decision-making. Fidji Simo, CEO of applications at OpenAI, wrote that, “ChatGPT Health is another step toward turning ChatGPT into a personal super-assistant that can support you with information and tools to achieve your goals across any part of your life.”

The company has emphasized data separation and privacy as core design principles. ChatGPT Health operates in a dedicated space within the chatbot, where files, conversations, and connected apps are stored separately from other interactions. OpenAI has stated that information and memories from ChatGPT Health will not flow outside of that space and that conversations within it will not be used to train the company’s foundation models.

To enable secure access to clinical data, OpenAI has partnered with b.well, which provides the health data connectivity infrastructure required for users to share medical records. In addition, users will be able to connect data from Apple Health, MyFitnessPal, Weight Watchers, the lab testing startup Function, and other wellness services through tools or app settings.

ChatGPT Health has been developed in what OpenAI described as “close collaboration” with physicians. The launch reflects a broader expansion of the company’s healthcare efforts over the past year. Following the release of its GPT-5 model in August, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said health care was “maybe the area where there’s the strongest improvement of any category.” In May, the company also introduced Health Bench, a benchmark designed to assess how well AI models perform in realistic health scenarios.

OpenAI has noted the scale of demand for such tools, stating that “hundreds of millions” of people ask health and wellness questions each week. ChatGPT Health will initially be available to a small group of early users who will provide feedback, with broader access expected to roll out in the coming weeks.

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