US tech firm Palantir ‘to handle data for millions of NHS patients’
An American technology company is set to win a £480 million contract to manage the data of millions of NHS patients.
Palantir Technologies is on track to be awarded a five-year deal to run a data platform that promises to improve medical records by allowing information on patients to be shared between different parts of the health service.
The NHS is expected to announce that the joint bid between Palantir and the Irish-American IT services and the consultancy Accenture has been successful.
Palantir is a software company with ties to the United States defence industry and intelligence agencies and it has faced competition from the British start-up Quantexa.
Sir Chris Whitty, the chief medical officer for England, described the “federated data platform” as a “transformational”
