OpenAI integrated Epic’s electronic health record (EHR) system into its ChatGPT for Healthcare platform. This feature provides authorized clinicians with read-only access to lab results, medications, and appointment notes.
Clinicians can access the data through the ChatGPT interface or existing Epic workflows. The integration helps medical professionals quickly synthesize complex patient histories.
UCSF Health is piloting the tool to determine how it reduces clinician data review time. The system does not write information back to the patient record to maintain data integrity.
Healthcare organizations manage access through existing user permissions. These protocols dictate which specific patient information each clinician can view.