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OpenAI makes ChatGPT Health available to all US users
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Key Points:
- OpenAI has made ChatGPT Health, a feature for health-related queries, available to all U.S. users over 18 across all plans, following a lawsuit over a near-fatal medical suggestion.
- The feature allows users to integrate personal health data from services like Apple Health, MyFitnessPal, and medical records from hospital systems such as Epic and Oracle Health.
- OpenAI reported an increase in health-related queries from 230 million to 300 million per week, noting that 70% of these queries occur outside the dedicated health hub.
- The company highlighted improvements in its latest model, GPT 5.6-Luna, which outperforms previous versions on health benchmarks, but emphasized its services are not intended for medical diagnosis or treatment.
- Despite concerns about AI reliability in healthcare, OpenAI and other companies like Anthropic and Google continue to expand AI health features, with ChatGPT Health rolling out this week to U.S. users on web and iOS platforms.
