# Healthcare organizations can now connect EHR and additional industry data to ChatGPT

The release integrates authorized patient charts from Epic into ChatGPT for Healthcare alongside a plugin providing structured access to nine public medical datasets.

- Supports pulling patient history into ChatGPT as well as embedding ChatGPT directly into native Epic interface workflows.
- The Healthcare Public Data plugin connects to PubMed, DailyMed, CMS Coverage, RxNorm, and ClinicalTrials.gov.
- Physicians evaluating 4,363 responses across 27 clinical use cases rated 99.1% of EHR-connected outputs safe.
- Organizations can use the integration with a Business Associate Agreement (BAA) for HIPAA-compliant access.
- The EHR integration requires a ChatGPT for Healthcare or Enterprise workspace, while individual ChatGPT for Clinicians accounts can access the public data plugin.

## Why it matters

Healthcare providers using Epic can now summarize patient records and verify clinical data inside ChatGPT without manually exporting charts or searching external databases.

## Sources

- [OpenAI: Healthcare organizations can now connect EHR and additional industry data to ChatGPT](https://openai.com/index/chatgpt-connects-health-records-and-healthcare-sources)

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Summarized by dstilled on 2026-09-01. https://dstilled.ai/story/95253365-44ff-441f-aa08-3b029d4bcda8