OpenAI launches a ChatGPT Health integration with Epic's EHR system and a Healthcare Public Data plug-in that can fetch info from sources like RxNorm and PubMed
The Epic connection moves the product from user-supplied health data toward information held in clinical workflows, while the public-data plug-in pairs patient context with reference sources. OpenAI says physicians evaluated connected-EHR responses across use cases including pre-visit review, medication review and handoff summaries.
First-order effects
Healthcare organizations with supported Epic environments can connect EHR context to ChatGPT, giving clinicians a route to use patient records, lab results, medications and notes within the assistant.
ChatGPT can also retrieve reference information from sources including RxNorm and PubMed through the Healthcare Public Data plug-in, combining chart-context work with external healthcare data lookup.
Second-order effects
For Epic-using healthcare organizations, evaluation shifts from standalone medical Q&A toward whether one assistant can support chart review, medication review, clinical timelines and handoffs in established workflows.
OpenAI's clinician product gains a more complete work surface: EHR context and public reference data can be used alongside the reasoning and administrative tasks targeted by its earlier HIPAA-compliant deployment.
Third-order effects
If healthcare organizations adopt connected assistants, clinical AI competition will increasingly turn on access to core systems and trusted data sources rather than a model's conversational interface alone.
The move points toward workflow-native AI in healthcare, with the EHR becoming a key integration layer for assistants used in clinical work.
The trend: Healthcare AI is moving from patient-facing data imports and isolated clinician tools toward assistants embedded in EHR-centered workflows and connected to authoritative reference data.
Today, we're bringing ChatGPT closer to the systems, information, and workflows healthcare teams already rely on. ♥️ We're introducing a new EHR integration to connect supported Epic environments to ChatGPT and a plugin connecting to nine additional industry data sources.
We're also introducing the Healthcare Public Data plugin, connecting ChatGPT to nine additional healthcare datasets including PubMed, https://clinicaltrials.gov/, DailyMed, CMS data, openFDA, and RxNorm. We hope it makes trusted data easier to find, verify, and use in the flow of…
To understand performance with connected EHR context, physicians evaluated responses across 27 clinical use cases, including pre-visit review, clinical timelines, medication review, and handoff summaries. Across 4,363 ratings, physicians rated 99.1% of responses safe.
Refreshing to feel so clearly that physicians were 💯 involved in the design of this EHR integration and the demo shown below It's so spot-on for the ambulatory care charting workflow ... and does *exactly* the information retrieval that a doctor would be doing: looking for new la…
Example of why this is a big deal: ChatGPT reads a patient's EHR records from Epic, then finds trials for which they're eligible in ClinicalTrials_gov. A lot of trials don't get filled because it's hard to find eligible patients.
Healthcare moves at the speed of trust. AI has to meet clinicians where they already work, help them understand the patient in front of them, find the right information quickly, and enable them to make thoughtful decisions under real-world constraints.
Over the past year, I've had the privilege of working closely with some of the leading health systems in the U.S. Every conversation has reinforced for me the extraordinary opportunity ahead. …