Startup Fortune: OpenAI launched ChatGPT Health and quietly moved your medical records outside HIPAA
“HIPAA applies to covered entities, meaning hospitals, insurers, and their business associates. OpenAI is none of those things. As Sara Geoghegan, senior counsel at the Electronic Privacy Information Center, told The Record, sharing your electronic medical records with ChatGPT Health ‘would remove the HIPAA protection from those records, which is dangerous.’ The data becomes governed … Continued
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Published: 25 July 2026
Source: EPIC
Category: Field notes
Topics: Privacy · Healthcare
Retrieved: 2 August 2026
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