ChatGPT Health Arrives as OpenAI’s Biggest Step Towards AI-Powered Healthcare Yet

On Wednesday, ChatGPT Health — a new space for healthcare conversations that OpenAI has introduced to the world-wide community of health care professionals — was unveiled at Open AI. This is the San Francisco-based artificial intelligence (AI) giant that has added new features, including connecting third-party wellness apps and multilayer security for the space. For users who want a more cohesive and integrated experience when it asks the chatbots questions about their test results, appointments with doctors, diet/workout advice or health insurance queries. Now the company has pilot test, with a wider rollout expected in the next few months as it prepares to launch.

ChatGPT Health Introduced

Earlier in a blog post, the AI giant announced and detailed the new feature within ChatGPT. The feature’s features is being shared with a small number of users by OpenAI, which has early access to the service. The waitlist here is for interested people to sign up for the . The company did not share a global release date, but users can still ask healthcare-related questions in regular chats.

The upcoming experience comes amid high demand for health questions on ChatGPT, with OpenAI saying that people already ask hundreds of millions about health and wellness every week. It also says that chatGPT Health offers an independent workspace inside the site, where health conversations (connected apps and files) are’separated from normal chat history to reduce the risk of sensitive data exposure’. layered protections like purpose-built encryption and data isolation that extend beyond OpenAI’s existing security controls, such as the use of “the most effective” (e.g.

It allows users to link electronic medical records and wellness apps like Apple Health, Function (MyFitnessPal) and other responses of ChatGPT in their own health context. In addition to this data, the AI giant said that “by pulling in these data it can help users understand lab results, prepare for clinical appointments, track health trends such as activity or sleep patterns, discuss diet and exercise routines – even compare healthcare insurance options according to individual patterns of care.”

It argued the company’s focus was that ChatGPT Health is not meant to diagnose or replace care from licensed doctors, but “help people make sense of information and engage more actively with their health data.”

The other step is to turn ChatGPT Health into a personal super-assistant that can help you with information and tools so as to achieve your goals across any part of your life,’ said Fidji Simo, CEO at OpenAI.

OpenAI also outlined how it is “provising to protect sensitive health information beyond basic ChatGPT security.” In transit and when stored, health conversations and connected files are encrypted (both in transit) and remain separate from the user’s other chat memories. The company said Health ‘builds on its existing privacy architecture, which already has options to delete chats in 30 days and default protections against training models on personal data. The also has controls like multi-factor authentication to strengthen account access. The post mentioned that OpenAI’s foundation models are not trained using conversations and data within ChatGPT Health.