Becker's Healthcare September 23, 2024
Naomi Diaz

UT Health Houston is partnering with OpenAI, the organization behind ChatGPT, to accelerate innovation and enhance healthcare efficiency.

The collaboration with OpenAI was born out of UTHealth’s efforts to explore new AI tools and platforms that could benefit the health system, Xiaoqian Jiang, PhD, professor and chair of the department of health data science and artificial intelligence at McWilliams School of Biomedical Informatics at UT Health Houston, told Becker’s.

According to Dr. Jiang, discussions about the partnership began in 2023 when UTHealth Houston started using Microsoft’s Azure platform and learned about OpenAI’s HIPAA-compliant models.

“OpenAI offers newer models, and they also have a HIPAA-compliant version, which requires a special business associate agreement (BAA),” Dr. Jiang said. “We pushed forward...

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