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OpenAI Connects ChatGPT to Epic Health Records, Read-Only for Clinicians

OpenAI's ChatGPT for Healthcare now integrates with Epic EHR, letting clinicians query patient data with read-only access.

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OpenAI announced on 2026-09-01 that healthcare organizations can connect their Epic environments to ChatGPT for Healthcare, allowing clinicians to pull authorized information from appointment notes, laboratory results, medications and specialist documentation. [1] OpenAI announced an integration between ChatGPT Health and Epic's electronic health record system, which holds data for over 325 million patients. [2] According to OpenAI, ChatGPT for Healthcare can identify what changed since a previous visit, surface recent lab results, track medication changes, and highlight unresolved follow-ups, pointing users back to supporting information in the chart. [3] OpenAI said that physicians evaluated the integration across 27 clinical use cases, including pre-visit reviews, medication reviews, clinical timelines and handoff summaries, and rated 99.1% of responses safe across 4,363 evaluations. [4] TechCrunch reported on 2026-09-01 that the Epic integration is read-only, allowing ChatGPT to retrieve and analyze patient information but not write information back into the record. [5] OpenAI maintains that AI is not suitable for diagnosis or treatment, despite the rollout of ChatGPT for health to all U.S. consumers last month. [6] OpenAI specified that the integration allows only read-only access to health records, and the AI does not write anything back to the system. [7]
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  1. OpenAI announced on 2026-09-01 that healthcare organizations can connect their Epic environments to ChatGPT for Healthcare, allowing clinicians to pull authorized information from appointment notes, laboratory results, medications and specialist documentation. · PYMNTS.com
  2. OpenAI announced an integration between ChatGPT Health and Epic's electronic health record system, which holds data for over 325 million patients. · TechCrunch
  3. According to OpenAI, ChatGPT for Healthcare can identify what changed since a previous visit, surface recent lab results, track medication changes, and highlight unresolved follow-ups, pointing users back to supporting information in the chart. · PYMNTS.com
  4. OpenAI said that physicians evaluated the integration across 27 clinical use cases, including pre-visit reviews, medication reviews, clinical timelines and handoff summaries, and rated 99.1% of responses safe across 4,363 evaluations. · PYMNTS.com
  5. TechCrunch reported on 2026-09-01 that the Epic integration is read-only, allowing ChatGPT to retrieve and analyze patient information but not write information back into the record. · PYMNTS.com
  6. OpenAI maintains that AI is not suitable for diagnosis or treatment, despite the rollout of ChatGPT for health to all U.S. consumers last month. · TechCrunch
  7. OpenAI specified that the integration allows only read-only access to health records, and the AI does not write anything back to the system. · TechCrunch
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