By skyforbes OpenAI’s Secret Healthcare Play
I need to tell you something strange.
800 million people use ChatGPT every week. Many of them are asking medical questions. And OpenAI knows.
They just announced they’re building consumer health products. Including an AI health assistant.
This isn’t another tech company dabbling in healthcare. This is different.
Why This Time Feels Different
Big Tech has failed at this before.
Google shut down their health records service in 2011. Amazon killed their Halo fitness tracker in 2023. Microsoft’s HealthVault never took off.
Each time, the same problems. Low adoption. Privacy fears. Poor integration with hospitals.
But OpenAI has something those companies didn’t have at the start: you.
People are already there. Already asking. Already trusting the responses.
At the HLTH conference in October, Nate Gross (OpenAI’s head of healthcare strategy) confirmed what we suspected. Hundreds of millions ask ChatGPT for medical advice weekly.