OpenAI opens free access to ChatGPT for U.S. clinicians

OpenAI has released ChatGPT for Clinicians – a specialized version of artificial intelligence, available free of charge to verified American physicians, practicing nurses, physician assistants, and pharmacists. The product launch comes amidst high pressure on the U.S. healthcare system, where specialists have to cope with growing volumes of administrative work. According to a 2026 American Medical Association survey, AI use by physicians has reached a record high: 72 percent of respondents use it in clinical practice, significantly up from last year's figure of 48 percent. Overall, the weekly use of ChatGPT by clinicians has more than doubled over the past year.

The new tool provides healthcare professionals with access to advanced language models for solving complex clinical questions and automating routine tasks. The system features a trusted clinical search function that provides real-time answers with citations from millions of peer-reviewed medical sources. Physicians can delegate deep analysis of medical literature to AI, with the option to select trusted databases for detailed reports. Additionally, users can create recurring workflows for repetitive tasks, such as drafting referrals, prior authorizations, and writing patient instructions.

Developers paid special attention to data security and evaluating the model's performance quality. User dialogues are not used for training neural networks, and accounts are protected by multi-factor authentication. For tasks requiring the handling of protected health information, optional support for HIPAA standards is provided through a business associate agreement. Alongside the release, the company introduced HealthBench Professional – an open benchmark for evaluating the performance of real clinical tasks in areas such as care consultations, documentation, and medical research. To ensure the reliability of the answers, OpenAI's medical consultants have already analyzed over 700,000 model responses, continuously evaluating their quality and safety.