OpenAI announced in September 2026 that it is integrating ChatGPT Health with Epic’s electronic health record (EHR) system, which holds data for over 325 million patients. The integration allows clinicians to import patient data and use AI to query it directly within their workflows.
Through the integration, clinicians can access appointment notes, laboratory results, medications, and specialist documentation, and summarize them using ChatGPT. They can also review patient history, track changes over time, and prepare for upcoming appointments. In some deployments, clinicians can access ChatGPT for pre-visit reviews and clinical timeline building without leaving a patient chart. OpenAI specified that the integration is read-only — the AI does not write anything back to health records.
OpenAI is also launching a Healthcare Public Data plugin that pulls information from sources including ClinicalTrials.gov, CMS Coverage, RxNorm, DailyMed, and PubMed. The plugin is designed to help healthcare workers synthesize data for trial eligibility criteria, medication identifiers, coverage policy versions, and provider records.
Organizations with a Business Associate Agreement will also be permitted to use ChatGPT Work, Codex, apps, and connectors within their workspace for compliant workflows.
The announcement follows OpenAI’s rollout of ChatGPT for health to all U.S. consumers last month, at which point the company reported that users submit 300 million health-related queries to ChatGPT every week. Despite the expanded medical integrations, OpenAI has maintained that AI is not suitable for diagnosis or treatment.
The company said it collected over 4,300 responses from physicians across 27 clinical use cases and found that 99.1% were rated safe. However, the rollout comes amid legal pressure: a Florida-based pastor sued OpenAI days before the announcement, alleging ChatGPT gave him a near-fatal recommendation. The company was also sued in May by family members of a user who blamed ChatGPT for wrongful dosage advice.
Source: TechCrunch