The Dr. Hyman Show

How OpenAI Is Helping People Take Control of Their Health | Fidji Simo

21 snips
Feb 4, 2026
Fidji Simo, technology executive and CEO of Applications at OpenAI who leads products like ChatGPT and founded Chronicle Bio, shares her personal POTS/ME-CFS journey. She discusses aggregating health data from records, wearables, and genomics. She describes AI spotting patterns across diagnoses, helping clinical decisions, and powering proactive, personalized health tools.
Ask episode
AI Snips
Chapters
Books
Transcript
Episode notes
ANECDOTE

AI Caught A Missed Medical Risk

  • Fidji Simo used ChatGPT to analyze her full health records and detected patterns no single doctor had seen.
  • That combined view revealed actionable leads after 20 specialists had missed the whole-picture context.
INSIGHT

The Body Is One Network

  • The body functions as one interconnected network, not isolated organs, which specialists often miss.
  • AI can integrate fragmented data to reveal system-level patterns that individual clinicians can't see.
ANECDOTE

Saved From A Harmful Antibiotic Choice

  • Fidji Simo checked a prescribed antibiotic in ChatGPT during hospitalization and avoided a drug that could reactivate a past C. diff infection.
  • The resident clinician welcomed the catch because they lacked time to review years of records.
Get the Snipd Podcast app to discover more snips from this episode
Get the app