ChatGPT Becomes a Health Advisor

230 million people ask ChatGPT health questions every week.¹ Now OpenAI is making it official. ChatGPT Health is a dedicated, encrypted space that can connect to fitness apps and medical records.

The demand was already there, OpenAI is just responding. What interests me is that the service isn’t launching in the EU, Switzerland, or the UK. Reports cite stricter data protection rules like GDPR, the AI Act, and the Medical Device Regulation.² It shows that “health AI” is different regulatory terrain here than in the US.

OpenAI emphasizes that ChatGPT Health doesn’t diagnose. But when someone uploads their blood test results and ChatGPT calls them “concerning”, where does information end and diagnosis begin?