ChatGPT Health adds Epic integration for clinicians to import patient data
OpenAI is integrating ChatGPT Health with Epic's electronic health record system to assist clinicians in summarizing patient data and building clinical timelines. The tool is designed for read-only access and is not intended for medical diagnosis or treatment.
Why it matters
This integration represents a major step in bringing generative AI into clinical workflows, potentially increasing efficiency for healthcare providers.
OpenAI said today that it is integrating ChatGPT Health with Epic’s electronic health record (EHR) system, which holds data for over 325 million patients , to let clinicians import patient data and use AI to ask questions. The company said that in certain systems, it will also integrate ChatGPT directly within EHR workflows.
With ChatGPT, clinicians can now access information like appointment notes, laboratory results, medications, and specialist documentation and summarize them easily. They can also look at patient history, identify changes, and prepare for future appointments. OpenAI said that in some deployments, clinicians can directly access ChatGPT for getting pre-visit review and building clinical timelines without leaving a patient chart. The company specified that the integration allows only read-only access to health records, and AI doesn’t write anything back.
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