I Uploaded My Entire Medical History to ChatGPT Health

ChatGPT Health turned out to be good news for Google (and Anthropic). I explain why.

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You know, I was thinking. Sam Altman is right. We only live once. F*ck HIPAA. So what if the world knows I have bad knees? (Well, except now the healthcare mafia knows exactly where to aim. 😉)

The only way to get to the truth was to test this thing.

So I uploaded my entire medical history to ChatGPT Health…

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Alright, back to my ChatGPT Health adventures…

Whether you’re a skeptic or a supporter of AI in medicine, hear me out. I went through this over the weekend, and I think I’m onto something. Or more precisely, the industry may be onto something.

TL;DR:

1. Signing Up for ChatGPT Health

2. Connecting to Health Systems

3. Letting b.well Access All My MyChart Data

4. Uploading the Remaining Medical Files to ChatGPT Health

5. Once I Finished Uploading My Medical History, ChatGPT Started Hallucinating

6. So the Original Context Window Got “Filled” Pretty Quickly. What About Just Starting Another Chat?

7. ChatGPT Health Final Reports

8. Direct-to-Consumer Is Hard in Healthcare Because Patients Don’t Want AI to Tell Them What Already Happened to Them

9. Direct-to-Consumer Healthcare Can Also Be Outright Dangerous. Just Ask 23andMe.

10. OK. Direct-to-Consumer Healthcare Is Dead. So How Do You Sell ChatGPT to Businesses?

11. So, As a Health Organization, Are You HIPAA-Compliant When You Work With OpenAI’s API?

12. The Most Impressive Thing About ChatGPT Health

13. So Why ChatGPT Health Is Excellent News for Google (and Anthropic)

14. Conclusion: ChatGPT Health Ain’t About AI. It’s About a Better Way to Do APIs (i.e. Data is King).