Earlier this year, OpenAI launched ChatGPT Health, a feature allowing users to incorporate data from their medical records and wellness apps to ask questions about their health and test results, and understand potential treatment options.
In this webinar, panelists covered how it works, the potential benefits and cautions for this and other ChatGPT platforms, how patients and physicians are using large language models in health care now, and what journalists and consumers need to know.
Resources
- Introducing ChatGPT Health — Open AI
- Research Identifies Blind Spots in AI Medical Triage – Mount Sinai press release
- ChatGPT Health performance in a structured test of triage recommendations — February 2026 Article in Nature Medicine co-authored by Alvira Tyagi
- Getting a Head Start with AI at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai – article about Alvira Tyagi from Mount Sinai
- Here’s What Doctors Should Know About ChatGPT Health – MedPage Today
- I let ChatGPT analyze a decade of my Apple Watch data. Then I called my doctor. – Washington Post
- After a near-death experience, ChatGPT gave me closure my doctors didn’t – Axios
- People Are Using AI Chatbots for Health Advice: Here’s What to Know – Associated Press
- Harvard AI doc on why LLMs can be ‘uncomfortable’ for physicians and IT leaders – Healthcare IT News
- OpenAI launches ChatGPT for Healthcare at several large health systems – Healthcare Finance
Karen Blum
AHCJ Health Beat Leader for AI and Patient Safety
Karen Blum is AHCJ’s health beat leader for AI and Patient Safety, guiding coverage at the intersection of emerging technology and patient protection. An independent health and science journalist based in the Baltimore area, she previously covered Health IT for AHCJ.
Blum has written for publications such as the Baltimore Sun, Pharmacy Practice News, Clinical Oncology News, Clinical Laboratory News, Cancer Today, CURE, AARP.org, General Surgery News and Infectious Disease Special Edition; has covered numerous medical conferences for trade magazines and news services; and has written many profiles and articles on medical and science research as well as trends in health care and health IT. She has been a contest judge for AHCJ’s Awards for Excellence in Health Care Journalism. Blum also is a member of the American Society of Journalists and Authors (ASJA) and chairs its Virtual Education Committee.
Henry Bair, M.D., MBA
Resident physician, Wills Eye Hospital
Henry Bair M.D., MBA, is a resident physician at Wills Eye Hospital in Philadelphia. Previously, he was a fellow at Stanford University’s Clinical Excellence Research Center, a researcher at the Stanford Center for Policy, Outcomes, and Prevention, and curriculum director of digital health courses at Stanford Medical School. His writings on health policy and digital health have appeared in JAMA Pediatrics, NEJM AI, Digital Health, Public Health Reports, and Academic Medicine, as well as SF Chronicle, The Hill, STAT News, and MedPage Today.
Rachael Robertson
Enterprise and investigative writer, MedPage Today
Rachael Robertson is a New York City-based health journalist and audio producer. She covers all things medicine as part of MedPage Today’s investigative and enterprise team, with a particular focus on pop culture, public health, and medical misinformation. Rachael is also MedPage Today’s beat leader for ob/gyn news and the creator, host, and producer of the bi-weekly health news podcast MedPod Today. In 2025, Rachael was one of AHCJ’s inaugural Uncovering Pathways to Better Health fellows. She is a proud graduate of the City University of New York’s Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism. Before pivoting careers to journalism, Rachael worked in communications for a New York City elder care organization.
Alvira Tyagi
Medical student, Mount Sinai’s Icahn School of Medicine
Alvira Tyagi is a first-year medical student at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York City. She is second author of a study on the limitations of ChatGPT Health published in Nature Medicine in February 2026.
