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make the health service sustainable for the future . Patients come to the NHS at some of the most vulnerable points in their lives and they want to know that our healthcare teams have access to the best possible information when it comes to their treatment and care .
“ This new tool provides a safe and secure environment to bring together data , which enables us to develop and deliver more responsive services for patients and will help the health service drive the recovery in elective care .”
Following the award of the contract for the federated data platform , there will be a six-month implementation period where products supported by the current platform will be transitioned across .
Every hospital trust and local health system will have their own version of the software , which enables them to connect and share information between them , for example as they discharge a patient from hospital into a care setting . which the contract is about to come to an end . Rigorous interrogation of local data during the pandemic allowed the health service to better anticipate the virus , identify and protect the most vulnerable and put resources where they were needed and then to deliver the largest and the most precise vaccination programme in NHS history .
Palantir CEO , Alex Karp , said : “ This award is the culmination of 20 years of developing software that enables complex , sensitive data to be integrated in a way that protects security , respects privacy and puts the customer in full control .
“ There is no more important institution in the UK than the NHS and we are humbled to have now been chosen to provide that software across England to help bring down waiting lists , improve patient care and reduce health inequalities .
“ It builds on our role supporting the delivery of the COVID-19 vaccine and , more recently , helping individual NHS Trusts to schedule more operations .”
It will help trusts , regions and local care systems to apply the lessons learned from the vaccination campaign to deliver faster , more informed and joinedup patient care and will also help the NHS tackle longterm challenges like preventing ill-health and reducing hospital stays .
The new Federated Data Platform builds on the success of the current National Data Platform , for
The Federated Data Platform will also be the first use case in the NHS of Privacy Enhancing Technology ( NHS-PET ), a nationally assured and funded privacy tool to benefit all NHS organisations .
NHS-PET will ensure that the NHS can meet the highest technical standards of security for managing patient data , supported by robust information governance and data protection processes .
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