{“lastseen”:”2026-01-09T14:05:13″,”description”:”How comfortable are you with sharing your medical history with an AI?\\n\\nI\u2019m certainly not.\\n\\nOpenAI\u2019s announcement about its new ChatGPT Health program prompted discussions about data privacy and how the company plans to keep the information users submit safe.\\n\\nChatGPT Health is a dedicated \u201chealth space\u201d inside ChatGPT that lets users connect their medical records and wellness apps so the model can answer health and wellness questions in a more personalized way.\\n\\n\\n\\nOpenAI promises additional, layered protections designed specifically for health, \u201cto keep health conversations protected and compartmentalized.\u201d\\n\\nFirst off, it\u2019s important to understand that this is not a diagnostic or treatment system. It\u2019s framed as a support tool to help understand health information and prepare for care.\\n\\nBut this is the part that raised questions and concerns:\\n\\n\\u003e \u201cYou can securely connect medical records and wellness apps to ground conversations in your own health information, so responses are more relevant and useful to you.\u201d\\n\\nIn other words, ChatGPT Health lets you link medical records and apps such as Apple Health, MyFitnessPal, and others so the system can explain lab results, track trends (e.g., cholesterol), and help you prepare questions for clinicians or compare insurance options based on your health data.\\n\\nGiven our reservations about the state of AI security in general and chatbots in particular, this is a line that I don\u2019t dare cross. For now, however, I don\u2019t even have the option, since only users with ChatGPT Free, Go, Plus, and Pro plans outside of the European Economic Area, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom can sign up for the waitlist.\\n\\nOpenAI only uses partners and apps in ChatGPT Health that meet OpenAI\u2019s privacy and security requirements, which, by design, shifts a great deal of trust onto ChatGPT Health itself.\\n\\nUsers should realize that health information is very sensitive and as Sara Geoghegan, senior counsel at the Electronic Privacy Information Center told The Record: by sharing their electronic medical records with ChatGPT Health, users in the US could effectively remove the HIPAA protection from those records, which is a serious consideration for anyone sharing medical data.\\n\\nShe added:\\n\\n\\u003e \u201cChatGPT is only bound by its own disclosures and promises, so without any meaningful limitation on that, like regulation or a law, ChatGPT can change the terms of its service at any time.\u201d\\n\\nShould you decide to try this new feature out, we would advise you to proceed with caution and take the advice to enable 2FA for ChatGPT to heart. OpenAI claims 230 million users already ask ChatGPT health and wellness questions each week. I\u2019d encourage them to do the same.\\n\\n* * *\\n\\n**We don ‘t just report on data privacy\u2014we help you remove your personal information**\\n\\nCybersecurity risks should never spread beyond a headline. With Malwarebytes Personal Data Remover, you can scan to find out which sites are exposing your personal information, and then delete that sensitive data from the internet.”,”published”:”2026-01-09T12:26:55″,”modified”:”2026-01-09T12:26:55″,”type”:”malwarebytes”,”title”:”Are we ready for ChatGPT Health?”,”source”:””,”references”:””,”id”:”MALWAREBYTES:FA7613EC75D34A745F590A4C61C86031″,”bulletinFamily”:”blog”,”cwe”:null,”cvelist”:[],”sourceData”:””,”sourceHref”:””,”cvss”:{“score”:0,”severity”:”NONE”,”vector”:”NONE”,”version”:”NONE”},”cvss2″:{},”cvss3″:{“version”:””,”vectorString”:””,”baseScore”:0,”baseSeverity”:””,”attackVector”:””,”attackComplexity”:””,”privilegesRequired”:””,”userInteraction”:””,”scope”:””,”confidentialityImpact”:””,”integrityImpact”:””,”availabilityImpact”:””,”cvssV3″:{“version”:””,”vectorString”:””,”baseScore”:0,”baseSeverity”:””,”attackVector”:””,”attackComplexity”:””,”privilegesRequired”:””,”userInteraction”:””,”scope”:””,”confidentialityImpact”:””,”integrityImpact”:””,”availabilityImpact”:””}},”href”:”https:\/\/www.malwarebytes.com\/blog\/news\/2026\/01\/are-we-ready-for-chatgpt-health”,”category_name”:”News”,”post_link”:””,”product”:””,”version”:””,”vendor”:””,”ai_description”:””,”ai_severity”:””,”ai_vendor”:””,”ai_product”:””,”ai_version”:””,”ai_score”:0}<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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