{"id":222299,"date":"2026-01-07T23:53:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T23:53:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/222299\/"},"modified":"2026-01-07T23:53:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T23:53:08","slug":"chatgpt-is-launching-a-new-dedicated-health-portal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/222299\/","title":{"rendered":"ChatGPT is launching a new dedicated Health portal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"col-body mb-4 leading-7 text-[18px] md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0 charcoal-color\">OpenAI is launching a new facet for its AI chatbot called <a class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/openai.com\/index\/introducing-chatgpt-health\/\" data-i13n=\"cpos:1;pos:1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:ChatGPT Health;cpos:1;pos:1;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\">ChatGPT Health<\/a>. This new feature will allow users to connect medical records and wellness apps to ChatGPT in order to get more tailored responses to queries about their health. The company noted that there will be additional privacy safeguards for this separate space within ChatGPT, and said that it will not use conversations held in Health for training foundational models. ChatGPT Health is currently in a testing stage, and there are some regional restrictions on which health apps can be connected to the AI company&#8217;s platform.<\/p>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 leading-7 text-[18px] md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0 charcoal-color\">The announcement from OpenAI acknowledges that this new development &#8220;is not intended for diagnosis or treatment,&#8221; but it&#8217;s worth repeating. No part of ChatGPT, or any other artificial intelligence chatbot, is qualified to provide any kind of medial advice. Not only are these platforms capable of making dangerously incorrect statements, but feeding such personal and private information into a chatbot is generally not a recommended practice. It seems especially unwise to share with a company that only bothered paying <a class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/openai-forms-advisory-council-on-wellbeing-and-ai-183815365.html\" data-i13n=\"cpos:2;pos:1\" data-ylk=\"slk:even cursory lip service;cpos:2;pos:1;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">even cursory lip service<\/a> to the psychological impacts of its product after at least one teenager used the chatbot <a class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/ai\/the-first-known-ai-wrongful-death-lawsuit-accuses-openai-of-enabling-a-teens-suicide-212058548.html\" data-i13n=\"cpos:3;pos:1\" data-ylk=\"slk:to plan suicide;cpos:3;pos:1;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">to plan suicide<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OpenAI is launching a new facet for its AI chatbot called ChatGPT Health. This new feature will allow&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":204512,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[365,8266,363,364,82780,25635,111,139,69,145],"class_list":{"0":"post-222299","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-ai-company","10":"tag-artificial-intelligence","11":"tag-artificialintelligence","12":"tag-foundational-models","13":"tag-medical-records","14":"tag-new-zealand","15":"tag-newzealand","16":"tag-nz","17":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=222299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222299\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/204512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}