ChatGPT & Epic: AI Accesses Your Medical Records

Healthcare providers can now connect ChatGPT to your medical records. OpenAI has launched a new integration with Epic Health, an electronic health records company. This allows doctors and clinicians to use ChatGPT to ask questions about patient data. Clinicians can access information they already have permission for, including clinical notes, lab results, and medications. ChatGPT will also be able to look at patient history. This connection is read-only, meaning ChatGPT cannot update medical records or contact patients. Clinicians remain responsible for reviewing records and making care decisions. OpenAI is also adding a Healthcare Public Data plug-in. This will gather information from public sources like ClinicalTrials.gov and PubMed. It aims to help healthcare workers synthesize medical research. What's not clear is whether patients can opt out of having their medical records accessed by ChatGPT. Epic holds medical records for over 325 million patients. This development could change how medical information is accessed and processed.