penAI wants ChatGPT to be your new personal health assistant.

On Wednesday, the company announced ChatGPT Health, a feature that gives users personalized health and wellness insights. As a separate tab inside ChatGPT, Health lets users upload medical records and sync data from apps like Apple Health, Function, and MyFitnessPal. From there, it can evaluate test results, prep users for doctor visits, and suggest tweaks to workouts or diets.

The launch comes as healthcare systems strain under pressure. Short appointments and overworked providers often lead to rushed care and missed context. Disjointed patient data makes it harder for doctors to get a full view of someone’s health. OpenAI claims Health could help ease that burden.

“With more than 230 million health-related queries per week globally, we’re starting to see how AI can help address the shortcomings of the current healthcare system,” Fidji Simo, CEO of applications at OpenAI, wrote in a recent blog post. “To make an even greater impact, we need to make it much easier for anyone to discover what’s possible with ChatGPT and get the full value out of it for their health.”

Still, the feature naturally raises serious questions about privacy. Sensitive medical data, if leaked, can pose serious risks to a person's livelihood and well-being. OpenAI says it built Health with enhanced safeguards and that users’ data won’t be used to train its models.

The rollout comes as a wave of AI tools flood the healthcare sector. Earlier this week, the state of Utah unveiled an AI system that can renew medical prescriptions for patients without a doctor's intervention. At CES 2026, companies exhibited a vast array of new health products and the organizers of CES touted health tech as one of the fastest-developing areas of this year's show.

For now, ChatGPT Health is available to a limited group of early users. Free and paid ChatGPT users outside the European Economic Area, Switzerland, and the UK can now join the waitlist.