Overview
- Washington Post columnist Geoffrey A. Fowler connected a decade of Apple Health data and received an alarming F for cardiac health that his physician and cardiologist Eric Topol rejected as baseless.
- Repeated queries swung from F to B and the tool sometimes overlooked basic details like age, gender, and recent lab results despite having access to records.
- The assessment leaned on Apple Watch estimates such as VO2 max and resting heart rate without properly accounting for known measurement limits and device sensor changes.
- Anthropic’s Claude issued a C in a separate review of the same data but showed similar shortcomings in interpreting wearable-derived metrics.
- OpenAI says ChatGPT Health is in a waitlisted beta with added privacy protections and no training on users’ health data, and it plans improvements as the FDA cautions against unreviewed clinical claims and HIPAA generally does not cover consumer chatbots.