Franciscan Health improves care, saves millions with Epic EHR migration to Azure - Microsoft

RENTON, Wash. – The Seattle Seahawks, in partnership with Virginia Mason Franciscan Health (VMFH), the team's Official Medical Services Provider, today announced cancer awareness activities to promote early detection through the NFL's Crucial Catch: Intercept Cancer initiative. The Seahawks will host the team's annual Crucial Catch game on October 11 vs. the San Francisco 49ers. In celebration of the campaign, representatives from the Seahawks and VMFH held the annual ceremonial raising of the Crucial Catch flag at Lumen Field. "At Virginia Mason Franciscan Health, we are honored to stand with the Seattle Seahawks and team up to support the NFL's Crucial Catch initiative," said Dr. Joseph Rosales, Executive Medical Director of Cancer Services at Virginia Mason Franciscan Health (VMFH). "This campaign is a reminder that when it comes to health, we are stronger together. By offering on-site screenings at the Ticketmaster Tailgate, we want to provide our community with helpful, proactive tools to better understand their health.

Healthcare organizations need AI that works across the systems and information central to care and operations. Patient context, medical evidence, public healthcare data, and organizational knowledge often live in different places. Connecting these sources in a governed workspace helps teams find the right information, understand it in context, and put it to work across the business. Today, we’re introducing a new electronic health record integration that brings authorized patient context from Epic into ChatGPT for Healthcare, along with the Healthcare Public Data plugin for direct, structured access to official healthcare datasets like PubMed, DailyMed, and CMS Coverage. Together, these capabilities bring ChatGPT closer to the systems and sources healthcare teams trust, while supporting the controls and compliance healthcare work requires. Bring ChatGPT and EHR context togetherHealthcare organizations can now connect Epic environments to ChatGPT. Instead of searching across appointment notes, laboratory results, medications, and specialist documentation, clinicians can ask:What has changed since this patient’s last visit?