ChatGPT Health adds Epic integration for clinicians to import patient data

OpenAI said today that it is integrating ChatGPT Health with Epic’s electronic health record (EHR) system, which holds data for over 325 million patients, to let clinicians import patient data and use AI to ask questions. The company said that in certain systems, it will also integrate ChatGPT…

OpenAI said today that it is integrating ChatGPT Health with Epic’s electronic health record (EHR) system, which holds data for over 325 million patients, to let clinicians import patient data and use AI to ask questions. The company said that in certain systems, it will also integrate ChatGPT directly within EHR workflows. With ChatGPT, clinicians can now access information like appointment notes, laboratory results, medications, and specialist documentation and summarize them easily. They can also look at patient history, identify changes, and prepare for future appointments. OpenAI said that in some deployments, clinicians can directly access ChatGPT for getting pre-visit review and building clinical timelines without leaving a patient chart. The company specified that the integration allows only read-only access to health records, and AI doesn’t write anything back. OpenAI is also adding a new Healthcare Public Data plug-in, which can fetch information from sources including ClinicalTrials.gov, CMS Coverage, RxNorm, DailyMed, and PubMed. The company said that the new plug-in can help healthcare workers synthesize data for trial eligibility criteria, medication identifiers, coverage policy versions, and provider records. The company said that apart from enabling these new features, it is allowing organizations with a Business Associate Agreement to use ChatGPT Work, Codex, apps, and connectors in their workspace for compliant workflows. Last month, OpenAI rolled out ChatGPT for health to all U.S. consumers. The company said at that time that people are asking 300 million health-related queries to ChatGPT every week. Despite many deep integrations with medical systems, the company has maintained that AI is not suitable for diagnosis or treatment. OpenAI said that it collected over 4,300 responses from physicians across 27 clinical use cases, including pre-visit review, clinical timelines, medication review, and handoff summaries, and found that 99.1% of responses were safe. However, even a few unsafe answers can lead to harmful results for humans. A few days before this rollout, a Florida-based pastor sued the company, alleging that ChatGPT gave him a near-fatal recommendation. The company was also sued in May by family members of a user who blamed ChatGPT for giving wrongful advice related to dosage. Topics AI, Apps, ChatGPT, OpenAI When you purchase through links in our articles, we may earn a small commission. This doesn’t affect our editorial independence. Ivan Mehta Ivan covers global consumer tech developments at TechCrunch. He is based out of India and has previously worked at publications including Huffington Post and The Next Web. You can contact or verify outreach from Ivan by emailing im@ivanmehta.com or via encrypted message at ivan.42 on Signal. View Bio October 13 – 15 San Francisco Don’t miss out. The startup community will gather to answer a pivotal question: How do you build sustainably in the AI era? REGISTER NOW Most Popular Apple shares ‘shocking evidence’ against former employee accused of stealing company data for OpenAI Amanda Silberling Microsoft tests fix for latest hours-long Outlook outage Sarah Perez MapQuest’s app surges to No. 1 in Navigation after refusing to rename Lake Ontario Sarah Perez Musk’s faster path to more gas turbines comes with pollution problem Connie Loizos Hugging Face is selling a cute $399 open source duck robot, Microduck Rebecca Bellan Nvidia closes in on Hugging Face acquisition Connie Loizos Viral AI startup Instinct has raised $350M at a $2.5B valuation Lucas Ropek

Source: TechCrunch — Published September 1, 2026 at 17:00 UTC — Category: Business