OpenAI presents ChatGPT Salud, its tool to answer medical questions, analyze results and offer advice

Within this framework, in order to offer a service focused on this type of requests, OpenAI has presented ChatGPT Salud, a new experience that will allow you to answer specific medical questions, analyze personal results and offer well-being advice adapted to the user.

As the technology company explained in a statement on its blog, this tool combines the privacy, security and data management controls of ChatGPT with additional protections that have been designed specifically for health. This includes encryption and isolation applied to private conversations.

In this way, users can share their medical history with the chatbot, in addition to connecting it with wellness applications on their smartphone, such as Apple Health, Function or MyFitnessPal.

As a result, the ‘chatbot’ receives the health information collected by these applications and, after that, bases the responses on the user’s personalized information and on the data obtained, offering information that is more tailored to the specific situation of the person and, therefore, “more useful.”

For example, it helps interpret recent medical test results, prepare for a doctor’s appointment, or follow a recommended diet along with physical exercise. It can also help you understand the pros and cons of different health insurance options. All this, through conversation with the ‘chatbot’.

OpenAI has also stressed that it is a tool that has been developed jointly with medical professionals globally for more than two years and that it has also been designed to help users “become more actively involved in caring for their health and well-being.”

However, the company has clarified that with ChatGPT Health they do not intend to replace professionals in the health sector. “ChatGPT Health was designed to support, not replace, medical care. It is not used for diagnosis or treatment,” he stated in this regard. Instead, it is intended to help solve everyday questions and identify patterns over time, as OpenAI has clarified.

At the moment, ChatGPT Health has begun testing with a small group of users to improve the experience before officially launching it. Thus, OpenAI intends to make this service available to all users both on the web and on iOS “in the coming weeks.”