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 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 plugin, which can fetch information from sources including ClinicalTrials.gov, CMS Coverage, RxNorm, DailyMed, and PubMed, helping 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, saying that people ask 300 million health-related queries to ChatGPT every week. Despite deep integrations with medical systems, the company has maintained that AI is not suitable for diagnosis or treatment.

OpenAI said 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 — though even a few unsafe answers could matter in a clinical setting.

The Epic integration gives OpenAI a foothold in the largest U.S. EHR network and signals that health systems are willing to put AI assistants beside patient charts, as long as access stays read-only and compliance frameworks like Business Associate Agreements are respected. What to watch next: how quickly hospitals enable the integration, whether read-only access expands over time, and how OpenAI's safety record holds up under real clinical use.