OpenAI has acquired San Francisco-based startup Torch Health in a move that analysts say is a strategic maneuver to boost its ChatGPT health initiative launched last week.
In a blog post last week, OpenAI detailed its vision of ChatGPT Health: to create a chatbot that allows users to connect their medical records and wellness apps, such as Apple Health, Function, and MyFitnessPal, and help them understand their recent test results, prepare for doctor appointments, and get advice on how to approach diets or understand tradeoffs of different insurance options based on their individual healthcare patterns.
Torch Health, too, according to its founders, was building an application that could help an individual make more sense of their medical records via AI by pulling data from doctor visits, lab reports, wearables, consumer wellness tests, and fragmented healthcare portals.
