OpenAI has introduced EHR and public data integration into ChatGPT for Healthcare, said to enable AI-assisted workflows and provide clinical teams with a variety of patient information, context, and insights from public health sources.
The EHR integration is capable of bringing authorised patient information from Epic into ChatGPT for Healthcare, OpenAI states, whilst the Healthcare Public Data plugin grants direct access to official healthcare datasets such as PubMed and DailyMed.
Connecting to Epic will mean clinicians can ask specific questions about changes since a patient’s last visit, recent lab results, medication changes, specialist recommendations, and more, according to OpenAI, preventing the need to search through appointment notes and other documentation.
“ChatGPT brings together relevant information from the authorised patient record, summarises important developments, and points back to supporting chart information,” the company notes. ChatGPT can also be integrated directly into the EHR, allowing for AI-assisted workflows without leaving the patient’s chart.
The Healthcare Public Data plugin has “dedicated connectors” to nine public health sources, with OpenAI sharing hopes this will make it easier to verify information on trial eligibility criteria, medication identifiers, and relevant research.
“OpenAI partners with hundreds of physicians across 60 countries, 49 languages, and 26 medical specialties to help us define, measure, and improve health responses in ChatGPT,” says OpenAI. “To date, these physicians have reviewed more than 700,000 model responses across examples that reflect real-world healthcare questions. Their feedback improves model behavior and strengthens healthcare-specific tools.”
A video has also been posted to the OpenAI for Business LinkedIn account, demonstrating what the use of EHR integration within ChatGPT for Healthcare might look like in action.
Earlier this year, OpenAI shared plans to develop an AI “superapp”, in order to improve usability and bring together ChatGPT, Codex, browsing, and agentic capabilities into a single experience. “This is commercial scale, and it is mission scale,” it highlighted. “The fastest way to widen the benefits of AI is to put useful intelligence in people’s hands early and let that access compound globally. AI is driving productivity gains, accelerating scientific discovery, and expanding what people and organisations can build.”
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