OpenAI launches 'ChatGPT for Clinicians' to streamline medical workflows

OpenAI has officially launched ChatGPT for Clinicians, a specialized version of its AI platform designed specifically for individual clinicians.

Clinician use of ChatGPT has more than doubled over the past year. According to OpenAI, millions of healthcare professionals already use ChatGPT for their regular tasks. To better serve them, OpenAI today announced ChatGPT for Clinicians, a new version of ChatGPT built specifically for healthcare professionals. This new version will assist with clinical work such as documentation, medical research, and care-related queries.

Earlier this year, OpenAI announced ChatGPT for Healthcare, an enterprise offering for hospitals and healthcare organizations that includes the compliance and controls needed for large-scale deployment. This new ChatGPT for Clinicians offering targets individual clinicians.

ChatGPT for Clinicians offers the following:

Access to its latest frontier AI models tuned for healthcare use cases.
Reusable skills for tasks such as referral letters, prior authorization requests, and patient instructions.
A trusted clinical search feature that can provide real-time, cited answers from peer-reviewed medical sources.
Deep research tools for reviewing medical literature and compiling well-cited reports.
Eligible evidence reviews completed through ChatGPT can automatically count toward CME credits, removing the need for separate courses or extra paperwork.
Optional HIPAA compliance support through a Business Associate Agreement.
Conversations made inside ChatGPT for Clinicians are not used to train its models, and security protections such as multi-factor authentication are available.

To develop ChatGPT for Clinicians, OpenAI worked with physician advisors and reviewed more than 700,000 model responses covering real-world health use cases. The company highlighted that ChatGPT for Clinicians is meant to support clinicians, not replace medical judgment.

Along with ChatGPT for Clinicians, OpenAI also announced HealthBench Professional, a new open benchmark for clinician-focused chat tasks. In this benchmark, GPT-5.4 in the ChatGPT for Clinicians workspace scored 59.0, ahead of base GPT-5.4, GPT-5.2, GPT-5, physician-written responses, Claude Opus 4.7, Gemini 3.1 Pro, and Grok 4.20.

The free version of ChatGPT for Clinicians is now available for verified U.S. physicians, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, and pharmacists. OpenAI will be expanding access to more countries through the Better Evidence Network in the coming months.