FHC #212: OpenAI’s Nate Gross on ChatGPT’s next big move in healthcare

FHC #212: OpenAI’s Nate Gross on ChatGPT’s next big move in healthcare

April 22, 2026 · 54 min

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Dr. Nate Gross discusses the impact of ChatGPT and generative AI on healthcare for patients and clinicians.

OpenAI didn’t need to convince patients to try generative AI. According to Dr. Nate Gross , Health of Health at OpenAI, 230 million people already use ChatGPT each week to interpret lab results, prepare for visits, understand diagnoses or ask health-related questions they didn’t have time (or confidence) to raise in the exam room. But what about clinicians? On this episode of Fixing Healthcare , Dr. Robert Pearl and Jeremy Corr speak with Dr. Gross, who previously co-founded Doximity and Rock Health, about OpenAI’s latest step: the release of ChatGPT for Clinicians , a new offering that brings healthcare-specific AI tools directly to individual providers, without requiring access through a large health system contract. In other words, the same capabilities previously limited to enterprise deployments are now being placed in the hands of front-line clinicians. But as Dr. Gross makes clear in this timely interview, the story of AI in medicine is much bigger than a single product. It’s about how generative AI is beginning to reshape healthcare across three fronts at once: patients, clinicians and health systems. Key highlights include: Patients are already using AI at massive scale…

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