- Tampa General Hospital, one of Florida’s largest hospital facilities, and Palantir, a Colorado-based tech company specializing in big data analytics, announced a partnership on Wednesday
- The hospital will utilize Palantir’s analytics-driven platform to assist in logistics
- Palantir technology will provide key data sources and apply advanced analytics to deliver insights to healthcare professionals and decision-makers across the health system, including enhanced clinical care, accelerating research insight, and day-to-day operations
- TGH states that Palantir’s Foundry platform previously generated value in an initial pilot program through the improvement of hospital-wide patient flow using self-learning predictive planning
Tampa General Hospital (TGH) and Palantir, a Colorado-based tech company, announced a partnership on Wednesday that aims to improve patient care by deploying data and analytics through an analytics-based hospital platform.
Through the partnership, Tampa General will be utilizing Palantir technology as the foundation of its new data platform, employing Artificial Intelligence capabilities to assist in decision-making.
Palantir technology will provide key data sources and apply advanced analytics to deliver insights to healthcare professionals and decision-makers across the health system, including enhanced clinical care, accelerating research insight, and day-to-day operations.
“Bringing together our data, analytics, and operations through Foundry not only enables our team members to see the big picture of how our hospital is currently running but also predict changes we need to account for, allowing us to optimize every decision we make,” said Brian Hammond, vice president, and chief technology officer of TGH. “Improving the insights we generate from the data we already have available helps us with this mission.”
TGH states that Palantir’s Foundry platform has already generated value in an initial pilot program through the improvement of hospital-wide patient flow using self-learning predictive planning.
Foundry technology was employed during the landfall of category 4 Hurricane Ian, expanding upon the existing data framework to configure an interactive database tracker of patients and providers.
“In under 24 hours, Palantir provided Tampa General with the ability to conduct scenario planning around patient-to-provider allocation and maximize timely care. Tampa General conducted mass outreach to staff members to make essential changes to staffing plans as the situation unfolded,” the hospital said.
In the coming year of partnership, Palantir and TGH will continue to use Foundry to enhance current operational use cases while broadening new ones to promote better connectivity throughout the hospital.
These new areas may include assisting with care management, optimized planning for operating room schedules, and bolstering research efforts.
Why are they not asking patients for consent or notifying them that their information will be in Palantir? Patients have a right to know.
Also, since Palantir is contracted with ICE and TGH has announced that they will still care for undocumented patients, how can they rest assured their info will not be given to ICE?