Health leaves its tab and integrates everywhere in ChatGPT

ChatGPT Health accesses US medical records and Apple Health. The impact of this direct integration on daily health queries.

Health questions asked to ChatGPT can now rely on the medical data of the person asking them, at least in the United States. Health is opening up to connected accounts of users over eighteen, on the web and iOS, for the Free, Go, Plus, and Pro plans. Three families of sources connect to it: Apple Health, medical records from supported US hospital systems, and the One Medical and Function Health services. Codex remains excluded.

The real change lies in a shift. A first version, restricted to a limited group, required going to a dedicated space. Testing showed that over 70% of health-related exchanges took place elsewhere, such as a food allergy coming up during a recipe search. The connected information can therefore now be mobilized in any conversation: comparing a lab result to previous ones, summarizing what has changed since the last consultation, or taking a recent injury into account to suggest a less demanding outing.

Control relies on an authorization request before each use, which can be deactivated in favor of permanent access, and on a @Health mention that forces it to be taken into account. OpenAI claims that connected records, Apple Health data, and the conversations that use them remain excluded from the training of its foundation models and from ad targeting, regardless of any other chosen setting, with an additional layer of encryption. Disconnecting a source results in the deletion of synchronized data within thirty days, without erasing what is already in the history. Memories are not built directly from connected records, and safeguards verify that the sharing matches the request before an action in a connected plugin exposes this information.

On the model side, GPT-5.5 Instant powers free accounts and GPT-5.6 Sol powers paid accounts, the latter being presented as the company's most robust model in this field, with claimed gains on HealthBench Professional. The company estimates that over three hundred million people ask it about their health each week, compared to the two hundred and thirty million put forward earlier this year. Company caveat: connected data may be incomplete or outdated, with a medication sometimes remaining listed after it has been discontinued, and the tool does not replace a professional.