{"id":501629,"date":"2026-06-19T22:58:19","date_gmt":"2026-06-19T22:58:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/501629\/"},"modified":"2026-06-19T22:58:19","modified_gmt":"2026-06-19T22:58:19","slug":"chatgpts-new-health-upgrade-beats-doctor-written-answers-openai-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/501629\/","title":{"rendered":"ChatGPT&#8217;s new health upgrade beats doctor-written answers, OpenAI says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OpenAI has upgraded ChatGPT&#8217;s healthcare capabilities with the GPT-5.5 Instant model.\u00a0The updated model matches the performance of the most expensive Thinking models on machine-based health tests like\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/pdf\/2604.27470v1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">HealthBench and HealthBench Professional<\/a>, but at a fraction of the cost. GPT-5.5 Instant is available to all free ChatGPT users, though with usage limits.<\/p>\n<p>When compared to doctors, <a href=\"https:\/\/the-decoder.com\/openai-gives-gpt-5-5-instant-a-readability-upgrade-while-phasing-out-two-older-models\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">GPT-5.5 Instant&#8217;s<\/a> responses scored higher in accuracy, clarity, and completeness. The rate of incorrect health statements has dropped by 71 percent over the past two months.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/gpt-55_instant_health_benchmark_vs_phys.png\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-36776 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/gpt-55_instant_health_benchmark_vs_phys.png\" alt=\"GPT-5.5 Instant tops both GPT-4o and physician-written answers across all five evaluation categories in OpenAI's own benchmarks, scoring up to 89.9 percent on instruction-following.\" width=\"1700\" height=\"1008\"\/><\/a>GPT-5.5 Instant tops both GPT-4o and physician-written answers across all five evaluation categories in OpenAI&#8217;s own benchmarks, scoring up to 89.9 percent on instruction following. | Image: OpenAI<\/p>\n<p>A network of over 260 doctors from 60 countries is behind these improvements. They&#8217;ve reviewed more than 700,000 model responses. According to OpenAI, more than 230 million people use ChatGPT weekly for health-related questions, things like understanding lab results, prepping for doctor&#8217;s appointments, or sorting out insurance questions. OpenAI also offers specialized tools for healthcare professionals, including ChatGPT for Clinicians and OpenAI for Healthcare.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\tAI News Without the Hype \u2013 Curated by Humans<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\tSubscribe to THE DECODER for ad-free reading, a weekly AI newsletter, our exclusive &#8220;AI Radar&#8221; frontier report six times a year, full archive access, and access to our comment section.\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/the-decoder.com\/subscription\/\" class=\"inline-block text-white bg-(--heise-primary) mt-3 hover:bg-blue-800 focus:ring-4 focus:outline-none focus:ring-blue-300 font-medium rounded-sm w-full sm:w-auto  pl-3 pr-3 py-2.5 text-center newsletter-submit-button hover:no-underline\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\tSubscribe now\t\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OpenAI has upgraded ChatGPT&#8217;s healthcare capabilities with the GPT-5.5 Instant model.\u00a0The updated model matches the performance of the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":501630,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[4193,163,521,85,46,1748],"class_list":["post-501629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-chatgpt","tag-health","tag-healthcare","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-openai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501629","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=501629"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501629\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/501630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=501629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=501629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=501629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}