From OpenAI's VP of Health Nate Gross · · The Heart of Healthcare | A Digital Health Podcast
“Job one for us is triage and translation. We see a lot of queries around like what does this mean and or what is this thing I'm feeling? What is this lab I received? What is this word that the doctor said? Um you know it's the kind of stuff that would be a a Google search in in the past but that Google search had amnesia and it didn't know if they were 20 or 70 or have any of their their personal context.”
On , Nate Gross, Co-Founder & Chief Strategy Officer at DOXIMITY INC, spoke about patient care during OpenAI's VP of Health Nate Gross on The Heart of Healthcare | A Digital Health Podcast.
Nate Gross, co-founder and chief strategy officer at Doximity, appeared on the Heart of Healthcare podcast in April 2026, discussing his role as Vice President of Health at OpenAI. Gross stated that 40 million people use ChatGPT for health-related questions daily, and that the company views this as a responsibility to build healthcare apps. He described the development of HealthBench, a tool created with hundreds of physicians using thousands of clinical scenarios to train models on when to ask for context or express uncertainty. Gross addressed the use of AI in mental health, characterizing it as "a story of support, not substitution" and said the goal is for ChatGPT to respond "supportively, safely." He noted that nearly a quarter of American adults have used AI for mental health concerns, according to a Gallup poll. On the topic of AI prescribing, Gross suggested that certain areas like medication refills may be solved by AI, while other areas like chemotherapy remain "a very human experience." He also commented on healthcare incentives, stating that technology "doesn't fix who pays" or "who's accountable," and called for continued national conversations around incentive alignment.