OpenAI today announced that it is making ChatGPT Health, a feature that helps users with health-related questions, available to all U.S.-based users over the age of 18 on all plans. The announcement comes a day after a Florida pastor sued the company over donations an almost fatal suggestion not to consult a doctor.
The company began testing the feature through a dedicated hub in early January, allowing users to integrate data from other services and personal data from services like Apple Health, Function and MyFitnessPal.
According to OpenAI, users asked 230 million health-related queries per week. This number has already increased to 300 million.
Users can also integrate their medical records from hospital systems such as Epic and Oracle Health, and health platforms such as One Medical and Function Health.
OpenAI has previously said that users must apply the fitness hub for health-related queries. They can now draw conclusions from the combined information in the Health section in all queries. The company said that during testing it observed that 70% of health-related queries occurred outside of the dedicated center. With this up-to-date feature, users can apply their health information to obtain information about food or allergies in general chat.
The company noted that its models have made progress in answering health-related questions. The company noted that the smallest model in the latest release, GPT 5.6-Luna, outperforms GPT 5.5 in HealthBench evaluation, an open source benchmark developed by the company to evaluate large language models (LLM) for health queries. OpenAI says it doesn’t apply any user data to train its model and works with doctors to improve its models for health queries.
Despite the performance gains, the company maintains that its services are “not intended to diagnose or treat any medical condition.” The company cited these clauses in response to the above lawsuit and also informed about it New York Times that it is working to make health or medical related responses safer. In its latest implementation, OpenAI said it wants people to verify information and make medical decisions based on professional advice.
Several studies emphasized that AI bots are not reliable for medical advice. However, this hasn’t deterred companies like Anthropic and Google from launching health-related AI features.
ChatGPT Health will be available this week to signed-in users in the US on Free, Go, Plus and Pro plans on the web and iOS.