Fierce Healthcare July 8, 2019
Heather Landi

Providence St. Joseph Health has formed a multiyear strategic alliance with tech giant Microsoft to modernize its health IT infrastructure across its entire system and leverage cloud and artificial intelligence technologies to improve health outcomes and reduce the total cost of care.

The two organizations will work together to modernize Providence St. Joseph Health’s IT infrastructure, particularly around informatics as well as its business infrastructure, Rod Hochman, M.D., president and CEO of Providence St. Joseph Health, told FierceHealthcare.

“All of us recognize that healthcare has been slow to this modernization and other industries have moved ahead at a more rapid rate,” he said.

The 51-hospital health system serves 10 million patients a year across seven states and operates more...

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