OpenAI Connected ChatGPT to Epic Charts on 1 September 2026, With Read-Only Access
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A clinician preparing for an afternoon appointment spends the first minutes of it reading: the last visit note, the newest labs, the medication list, whatever the specialist sent over. On 1 September 2026 OpenAI said that reading can be handed to ChatGPT, working from the patient's own Epic record.
Two capabilities ship together. Health organizations can connect their Epic electronic health record environments to ChatGPT for Healthcare, and a separate Healthcare Public Data plugin wires the same workspace to nine official public datasets, among them ClinicalTrials.gov, CMS Coverage, RxNorm, DailyMed and PubMed. Access to the chart is read-only. The model writes nothing back into the record.
Two things carry this deployment to the bedside, and a regulatory clearance is neither of them. The first is a business associate agreement, the contract HIPAA requires before an outside vendor may handle protected health information. The second is OpenAI's own physician evaluation, which reports 4,363 ratings across 27 clinical use cases, with 99.1 percent of responses graded safe.
Those figures come from evaluation results OpenAI published itself, and the company says so. The denominator is ratings, and the announcement does not say whether one response could receive several of them, so 99.1 percent of 4,363 leaves approximately 39 non-safe ratings rather than a countable set of unsafe answers. No definition of the safety rating is published: the announcement does not say what the scale was, what those 39 ratings concerned, how severity was graded, or whether reviewers were blinded to the source of the answer.
Where the product lands against FDA's four criteria for clinical decision support software, the fourth of which asks that a clinician can independently review the basis for a recommendation, is an open question that read-only access does not settle on its own, and the announcement reports no determination. The decision support interventions criterion at 45 CFR 170.315(b)(11) reaches interventions a developer supplies with its own health IT module, which leaves the scope question for a hospital to settle with its vendors.
Stony Brook Aims Its Quantum Network at University Hospital Patient Data: What the 21 August Link to Brookhaven Actually Carried
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A 375-square-foot galvanized steel chamber now sits on the roof of Stony Brook University's Health Sciences Center, fourteen floors above the medical campus and reached by two final flights of stairs. Its builders call it the Quantum Watchtower, and they say the instruments inside will one day protect Stony Brook University Hospital patient data against cyberattack by teleporting quantum information.
That sentence was published on 28 August 2026 by Jess Stallone in Stony Brook Matters, the university's news site for alumni. One week earlier, on 21 August, Stony Brook and the Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory announced the demonstration behind it: a working free-space optical link carrying quantum information across 13 miles of open Long Island air. For a hospital reader the useful exercise is to hold the two statements next to each other, because they describe different stages of the same project.
What crossed the 13 miles between Stony Brook and Upton on 21 August 2026
The Watchtower is one end of a pair. The other is the Quantum Lighthouse, a nearly identical steel structure built by Brookhaven Lab at Upton, New York, 13 miles east, positioned for a clear line of sight back to campus. At the "First Light" event on 21 August, researchers generated quantum states of light at the Stony Brook rooftop and sent them across the open air to the Lighthouse. The university describes what was transmitted as "quantum states of light, each containing just a few individual photons," which is a weak coherent source rather than a true single-photon emitter. That daytime run demonstrated that the optical path could be aimed and held steady.
The entanglement work happened separately, at night, when the sky's background light drops far enough for faint signals to be picked out. Entangled photon pairs were generated in a Stony Brook physics laboratory, carried by fiber to the Watchtower, launched across the 13 miles, and measured at the Lighthouse. Justine Haupt, the Brookhaven engineer leading the link, came to it from astronomical instrumentation. "It's exciting to take capabilities we've spent years refining for astronomy and adapt them for a completely different scientific problem," she said.