Making ChatGPT better for clinicians
OpenAI Blog · 2026-04-22
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Topics: healthcare-aichatgpt-for-cliniciansmedical-benchmarksclinical-documentationai-safety-evaluation
Claims
- ChatGPT for Clinicians is now free for verified U.S. physicians, NPs, PAs, and pharmacists.
- 72% of U.S. physicians now use AI in clinical practice as of 2026, up from 48% the prior year.
- GPT-5.4 in the ChatGPT for Clinicians workspace outperforms human physicians and all other models on HealthBench benchmarks.
- Physician advisors rated 99.6% of ChatGPT for Clinicians responses as safe and accurate across 6,924 tested conversations.
- OpenAI is releasing HealthBench Professional, an open benchmark for real clinician chat tasks across care consult, documentation, and medical research use cases.
Key quotes
According to a 2026 survey by the American Medical Association, physician use of AI is now at an all-time high, with 72% of physicians reporting they now use AI in clinical practice, up from 48% last year.
GPT‑5.4 in the ChatGPT for Clinicians workspace outperforms base GPT‑5.4, all other OpenAI and external models, and human physicians.
This version of ChatGPT is as close to an ideal clinical support partner as it gets. It's like an on-demand consultant I can engage on everything from current guidelines to billing and coding, with the added benefit of broad access to pediatric and pediatric subspecialty literature.