OpenAI Integrates ChatGPT With Epic EHR for Clinicians

OpenAI has announced a significant expansion of its artificial intelligence tools for the healthcare sector, integrating its ChatGPT for Healthcare platform with Epic electronic health record (EHR) systems. The move, announced on Tuesday, September 1, 2026, allows healthcare organizations to connect their Epic environments to ChatGPT, enabling authorized clinicians to access and query patient data directly within the AI platform. This integration addresses a common challenge in healthcare where critical patient information, medical research, and public health data are often fragmented across disparate systems. With the new capability, clinicians can ask questions about authorized patient records, such as identifying changes since a previous visit, highlighting recent laboratory results, summarizing medication adjustments, or noting unresolved follow-up issues. The system is designed to consolidate relevant information and direct users to the supporting documentation within the patient's chart. The integration supports two primary methods of interaction.