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Palantir to be granted ‘unlimited access’ to NHS patient data (www.digitalhealth.net)

submitted 4 days ago by mc900ftJesus@lemy.lol to c/world@quokk.au

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/64973360

cross-posted from: https://quokk.au/c/privacy/p/918582/palantir-to-be-granted-unlimited-access-to-nhs-patient-data

The NHS is granting staff from companies including Palantir ‘unlimited access’ to identifiable patient data while working on its FDP.

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[–] quick_snail@feddit.nl 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

The article glaringly lacks saying why

[–] stsquad@lemmy.ml 2 points 4 days ago

The NHS has a wealth of data which makes conducting studies across large population groups possible. For example Dexamethasone as a treatment for COVID was identified thanks to having access to a medical history and outcome data across the NHS.

Even so there has not historically been a unified data storage solution as information is split between GPs and individual hospital trusts. Previous attempts to have a single system failed due to complexity and cost overruns. The current solution is the federated data platform (FDP): https://www.england.nhs.uk/digitaltechnology/nhs-federated-data-platform/ which attempts to interoperate with multiple primary data sources to help clinicians access patient records as well as help with resource and service planning.

I assume the Palentir system is involved with providing some sort of AI insights into that data store.