OpenAI Brings Torch Onboard to Power ChatGPT’s Health Push
The roughly $100 million deal adds tools to consolidate medical records as OpenAI moves deeper into AI-driven health use cases.
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ChatGPT-maker OpenAI has acquired Torch, a small health-tech startup focused on consolidating fragmented medical data, as part of its broader push into AI-powered health tools.
The deal is reported to be worth about $100 million in equity.
Torch’s technology aggregates data such as lab results, medications, visit records and wearable readings into a unified, context-aware platform that co-founders described as a “medical memory for AI.”
The idea was to bring disparate health records into a single context engine, allowing AI systems to see the full picture rather than isolated snapshots of a patient’s history.
The move comes at a time when patients are generating more health data than ever, while clinicians struggle with limited time and fragmented systems. Despite the explosion of wearables and digital health tools, patients often have access to only parts of their own records, and doctors rarely see data in a unified, usable format.
Announcing the acquisition on X, Torch co-founder Ilya Abyzov wrote:
“OpenAI has acquired 🔥 @TorchHealth. The Torch team and I are joining OAI to help build ChatGPT Health into the best AI tool in the world for health and wellness.”
On social media, Abyzov said Torch was built to help AI “connect the dots” across users’ health information.
As part of the acquisition, Torch’s four-person team, including co-founder Abyzov, will join OpenAI to integrate the startup’s data-unification tools into ChatGPT Health, the company’s newly introduced health-focused experience.
Health is already one of the most common reasons people turn to ChatGPT, with hundreds of millions of health-related queries asked each week.
According to OpenAI, ChatGPT Health allows users to securely connect medical records and wellness apps so conversations can be grounded in their own health information.
The company said the product includes additional privacy and security layers designed specifically for health data, such as purpose-built encryption and isolation to keep health conversations compartmentalized.
Designed in collaboration with physicians, ChatGPT Health aims to help people feel more informed and prepared when managing their health or interacting with healthcare providers.
