Opinion: Why I decided to share all my health information with ChatGPT Health

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Source: STAT News

Original: https://www.statnews.com/2026/01/29/chatgpt-health-review-privacy-trust/?utm_cam...

Published: Thu, 29 Jan 2026 09:30:00 +0000

Liz Salmi wrote an opinion entitled "Why I chose to share all my health information with ChatGPT Health". She states that she has been through 18 years of brain cancer. According to her, people don't have to go through 18 years of brain cancer to understand their own health records. The article focuses on her personal decision to share health data with OpenAI's new ChatGPT Health feature, launched in the US.[1][2][5] The function allows you to upload health records and link data from applications such as Apple Health, Peloton or MyFitnessPal.[1][2][3] Conversations are stored separately and are not used to train AI models.[1][2][3] The goal is to provide more accurate answers to health and lifestyle questions than to support medical care.[2][5][6] ChatGPT answers the health questions of over 230 million people weekly.[2][10]