ChatGPT Health adds Epic integration for clinicians to import patient data

OpenAI connected ChatGPT Health to Epic's EHR system, which holds over 325 million patient records. Clinicians can now pull appointment notes, lab results, and medication lists, then ask the AI to summarize, track changes, or prep for upcoming visits. In some deployments, ChatGPT sits directly inside the EHR workflow so clinicians can do pre-visit reviews and build clinical timelines without leaving a patient chart. OpenAI specified read-only access only—the AI doesn't write anything back. A new Healthcare Public Data plug-in also pulls from ClinicalTrials.gov, PubMed, and similar sources to help synthesize information.

Why it matters: OpenAI integrates ChatGPT Health with Epic's EHR system covering 325M patients, enabling in-workflow pre-visit summaries and clinical timelines. Concrete deployment details push it into featured territory, but it's a product integration rather than a paradigm shift — capped at...