Health in ChatGPT
If you (18 or over) want ChatGPT's help making sense of your own health information, you can now securely connect health records or Apple Health data to it. OpenAI states this data isn't used to train its models — worth knowing before connecting anything personal.
What changed
Source summary
OpenAI launched a health feature letting users 18 and over securely connect health records and Apple Health data to ChatGPT; OpenAI states this data is not used to train its foundation models.
Why it matters to your work
Practical interpretation
If you (18 or over) want ChatGPT's help making sense of your own health information, you can now securely connect health records or Apple Health data to it. OpenAI states this data isn't used to train its models — worth knowing before connecting anything personal.
When this could help
Useful if you want ChatGPT to have health context on hand for questions about your own results, symptoms or routine — always alongside, not instead of, advice from a qualified healthcare provider.
Health in ChatGPT lets you optionally connect Apple Health and supported medical records (from U.S. hospital systems, One Medical, and Function Health) so ChatGPT can compare new test results against earlier ones, summarise what's changed since a past appointment, relate sleep/activity/workouts to your routine, and give health-aware answers during ordinary chats — not just in a separate Health space. You control what's connected and when ChatGPT can access it, and can review or correct the conditions, medications and family history it has on file.
How to get started
Connect Apple Health and/or a supported medical records source (from a participating U.S. hospital system, One Medical, or Function Health) — you choose what to connect.
Provider guidance ↗Ask ChatGPT a health-related question in an ordinary chat — it can draw on your connected information across conversations, not just in a dedicated Health space.
Provider guidance ↗Review and correct the conditions, medications and family history ChatGPT has stored from your connected sources.
Provider guidance ↗Adjust whether ChatGPT must ask permission before using connected health data in Settings > Plugins > Health.
Provider guidance ↗
Try this · The SCALA method
Give AI a clearer brief
- Situation
- You have Apple Health or supported medical records connected and want ChatGPT's help understanding your own health information.
- Consultant
- Act as a health-information assistant, not a medical professional.
- Action
- Using only my connected health data and what I tell you, help me understand my results, track changes over time, or summarise what's changed since a past appointment — always recommend I confirm anything medically important with my healthcare provider rather than presenting it as medical advice.
- Language
- Plain-language summary, clearly separating factual summary from anything requiring professional judgement.
- Ask
- Ask me what specific health question or comparison I want help with before answering.
SCALA suggested prompt · Adapt the context and check the result.
Learn the SCALA method →What to check
- ChatGPT 'can still make mistakes and does not replace the care and judgment of qualified medical professionals' — the source explicitly recommends verifying important information and discussing medical decisions with a healthcare provider. Source ↗
- Connected medical records, Apple Health data, and conversations using them are not used to train foundation models or target ads. Disconnecting a source deletes its synced data from OpenAI's systems within 30 days (conversation history persists until those conversations are deleted). Memories are not created directly from connected records, though they can arise from Health conversations; users can turn memory off or use Temporary Chat. Source ↗
- US-only rollout at launch, on web and iOS only, for users 18 and over — not yet available in Codex. Source ↗
Sources & provider guides
Official documentation checked 12 Oct 2026. SCALA prompts and workflows are suggestions, not claims of hands-on testing.
Source & availability
This is a summary of a published provider announcement, with practical context from SCALA’s feed.
Plan, region, workspace and rollout conditions may affect access in Australia. Check the original source for current availability.
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