OpenAI integrates ChatGPT with Epic EHR for clinicians

openai integrated chatgpt health with epic's electronic health record system, which holds data for over 325 million patients. clinicians can now import patient data and use ai to ask questions, accessing information like appointment notes, laboratory results, medications, and specialist documentation. the integration allows only read-only access to health records and ai doesn't write anything back. openai also added a new healthcare public data plugin to fetch information from sources like clinicaltrials.gov and pubmed. this integration affects healthcare workers and patients, enabling them to synthesize data for trial eligibility criteria and medication identifiers.