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]