{"slug":"chu-montpellier-france-s-pioneering-ai-powered-hospital-with-azure-openai-service","url":"https://findausecase.com/use-cases/chu-montpellier-france-s-pioneering-ai-powered-hospital-with-azure-openai-service","title":"CHU Montpellier: France's pioneering AI-powered hospital with Azure OpenAI Service","description":"CHU Montpellier, a French university hospital with 12,000 staff, built ERIOS, an experimental center for digital health, and developed \"ERIOS Assistant\" using Azure OpenAI Service and GPT-4o on a hybrid local/Azure infrastructure. The generative AI assistant generates real-time explanatory documents for patients, structures medical data from clinical notes, and identifies patients eligible for research protocols, while Microsoft Copilot Studio and Microsoft 365 Copilot support clinical and administrative staff across the hospital.","company":"CHU de Montpellier","industry":"Healthcare","country":"France","aiCapabilities":["Generative AI","Document Intelligence","Conversational AI"],"technology":["Azure OpenAI Service","GPT-4o","Microsoft Copilot Studio","Microsoft 365 Copilot"],"deployment":"Unknown","solutionApproach":"CHU Montpellier, through ERIOS — France's first experimental center dedicated to digital health solutions, run as a consortium with the University of Montpellier and Dedalus — built \"ERIOS Assistant\" on a hybrid infrastructure combining local servers with Microsoft Azure cloud and GPT-4o. The hospital also deployed Microsoft Copilot Studio for secure, customized agent creation and Microsoft 365 Copilot for staff, alongside a dedicated \"School of Hospital Transformation\" to train healthcare, administrative and technical staff.","businessValue":"ERIOS Assistant enables real-time generation of explanatory documents for patients, structures medical data from clinical notes, and identifies patients eligible for research protocols. Microsoft 365 Copilot saves staff a tremendous amount of time on tasks they'd rather not do, and Copilot is described as a key driver of talent attraction for the hospital.","evidence":{"band":"high"},"sourceUrl":"https://www.microsoft.com/en/customers/story/23906-chu-de-montpellier-azure","dates":{"publishedAt":"2026-09-23T05:48:54.511Z","publishedAtSource":"pipeline","updatedAt":"2026-09-23T05:48:54.511Z"},"license":"Open for reading and citing with a link to https://findausecase.com/use-cases/chu-montpellier-france-s-pioneering-ai-powered-hospital-with-azure-openai-service. Bulk republication requires permission."}