The two organizations will develop a portfolio of integrated solutions designed to improve health outcomes and reduce the total cost of care by combining technologies from Microsoft with Providence St. Joseph Health\u2019s data and clinical expertise. The alliance will accelerate the health care industry\u2019s adoption of the cloud and enable data-driven clinical and operational decision-making by leveraging Microsoft Azure, and industry interoperability standards like FHIR, to integrate siloed data sources in a cloud environment that enables security and compliance.<\/p>\n
\u201cProvidence St. Joseph Health has been on a journey to transform health care and achieve a vision of health for a better world. We\u2019re excited to accelerate that journey by collaborating with Microsoft. Together, we\u2019ll support doctors, nurses and all caregivers by equipping them with innovative tools and technology that make it easier to do the vitally important work of improving lives,\u201d said Rod Hochman, M.D., president and CEO of Providence St. Joseph Health. \u201cOur alliance with Providence St. Joseph Health brings together the expertise of one of the largest and most comprehensive health systems in the country with the power of Azure, Microsoft 365 and Dynamics 365,\u201d said Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft. \u201cOur ambition is to accelerate Providence St. Joseph Health\u2019s digital transformation and to build new innovations together that are designed to improve health care delivery and outcomes.\u201d<\/p>\n As part of the strategic alliance, Providence St. Joseph Health will use Microsoft Azure as its preferred cloud platform and standardize productivity and collaboration tools for its 119,000 caregivers on Microsoft 365, and will continue to improve and support patient engagement using technologies including Dynamics 365. Providence St. Joseph Health doctors and nurses will use Microsoft Teams, which is part of the Microsoft 365 platform, for more secure communication and collaboration, enabling them to bring together chat, video meetings and conferencing, and line-of-business applications into a single hub.<\/p>\n About Providence St. Joseph Health About Microsoft Media Contacts:<\/strong> Providence St. Joseph Health, in partnership with Microsoft, will develop and deploy new health care technologies that will harness the power of Microsoft Azure and AI with clinical expertise to transform the care experience RENTON, Wash., and REDMOND, Wash., July 8, 2019 \u2013 Microsoft Corp. and Providence St. Joseph Health today announced a multi-year strategic alliance to accelerate […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":96395,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[135,106,187,112],"class_list":["post-96394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-microsoft-news","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-healthcare","tag-microsoft-azure","tag-press-releases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96394\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/96395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Providence](\"http:\/\/www.sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/microsoft-and-providence-st-joseph-health-announce-strategic-alliance-to-accelerate-the-future-of-care-delivery.png\")
<\/a>Providence St. Joseph Health will deploy next-generation solutions and emerging technologies from Microsoft and its partners at a Providence St. Joseph Health-affiliated hospital facility in Seattle, Wash., near Microsoft\u2019s Redmond headquarters. This site will enable modern clinical and operational experiences for both patients and providers. The goal will be to scale these innovations across the entire Providence St. Joseph Health system, in a transformation that will bring innovative and necessary solutions to more communities.<\/p>\n![\"Microsoft](\"http:\/\/www.sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/microsoft-and-providence-st-joseph-health-announce-strategic-alliance-to-accelerate-the-future-of-care-delivery-1.png\")
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<\/strong>Providence St. Joseph Health is a national, not-for-profit Catholic health system comprising a diverse family of organizations and driven by a belief that health is a human right. With 51 hospitals, 829 physician clinics, senior services, supportive housing and many other health and educational services, the health system and its partners employ more than 119,000 caregivers serving communities across seven states \u2013 Alaska, California, Montana, New Mexico, Oregon, Texas and Washington with system offices based in Renton, Wash., and Irvine, Calif.<\/p>\n
<\/strong>Microsoft (Nasdaq \u201cMSFT\u201d @microsoft) enables digital transformation for the era of an intelligent cloud and an intelligent edge. Its mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more.<\/p>\n
Elizabeth Brophy, Providence St. Joseph Health, Elizabeth.Brophy@Providence.org
Microsoft Media Relations, WE Communications for Microsoft, rrt@we-worldwide.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"