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ChatGPT Health Arrives for All US Users, Reads Your Medical and Fitness Data

OpenAI launched ChatGPT Health for all signed-in US users, allowing them to share medical records and fitness data from Apple Health, MyFitnessPal, Peloton, and other providers to personalize AI responses. The company says over 300 million users ask health-related questions weekly, and the feature includes additional encryption protections with a promise not to use data for model training or ads. The rollout follows a lawsuit filed Wednesday in Florida alleging ChatGPT gave "extremely dangerous medical recommendations" that led a man to ignore symptoms of a pulmonary embolism.

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ChatGPT Health Arrives for All US Users, Reads Your Medical and Fitness Data
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ChatGPT Health is officially here for all signed-in US users, allowing users to share their medical records and health data to better inform chatbot responses.

OpenAI says over 300 million people ask ChatGPT health-related questions every week, so these tools are built to offer more informed, personalized AI-based advice by learning as much as possible about you and your health.

The brand says, “With your permission, ChatGPT can consider relevant information you have connected, such as medications, lab results, recent visits, sleep, and activity, alongside the goals and context you share."

While you can share this data to ask questions about your medical records and conditions, and to break down your latest results, OpenAI also focuses on how additional information shapes its everyday responses. One example shows how sharing a dietary restriction will then inform recipe ideas whenever you discuss what to cook. Apple Health is the primary fitness provider used, with OpenAI yet to comment on support for alternatives like Google Health. There are also integrations with MyFitnessPal, Peloton, Weight Watchers, and more. Medical records come from US hospital systems or providers like One Medical and Function Health.

You can connect a service by heading to the sidebar in ChatGPT and selecting **Health **> Get started. OpenAI says syncing data may take a few minutes, and you can then review and update your results, such as removing irrelevant medications or conditions, or adding in missing data.

The chatbot will ask for permission to use your health data in any responses, but it’s accessible through all conversations with ChatGPT. If a response may benefit from using health data, ChatGPT will suggest three options: **Allow once, Always allow, **or Deny.

OpenAI says health data is handled with “additional encryption protections," and any information uploaded won’t be used to train its foundation models or target ads. It also says you can disconnect your information at any time, and it will be deleted from OpenAI’s records within 30 days.

You can get this feature now on any ChatGPT account, as long as you’re logged in, older than 18, and based in the US.

This rollout comes at a time when ChatGPT's medical advice is under greater scrutiny than ever, with OpenAI facing lawsuits alleging incorrect information provided by its tools. On Wednesday, a man in Florida sued OpenAI for “extremely dangerous medical recommendations" when using OpenAI's earlier GPT-4o model.

According to the New York Times, the plaintiff says ChatGPT assured him he didn't need to seek medical advice when discussing the early signs of what turned out to be a pulmonary embolism. ChatGPT's response reportedly told him, "God did not design your body to endlessly fail.”

Disclosure: Ziff Davis, PCMag's parent company, filed a lawsuit against OpenAI in April 2025, alleging it infringed Ziff Davis copyrights in training and operating its AI systems.

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