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RPA-H enters $19M contract with Palantir for artificial intelligence, data software
Palantir’s Artificial Intelligence Platform and Foundry software will support the young health research agency’s data infrastructure and track the progress of its programs.
By Madison Alder
June 20, 2024
The Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health will use Palantir’s AI and data software to support its data infrastructure and track the progress of its research programs under a $19 million contract being announced Thursday.
Under the two-year contract, ARPA-H will deploy Palantir’s AI Platform (AIP) and Foundry software to “rapidly collect, synthesize, analyze, and make decisions from a range of data sources,” according to a release shared with FedScoop ahead of the announcement. Those tools will be used with a variety of agency operations, including with performance data related to ARPA-H’s programs to help the agency track progress and make decisions.
Alastair Thomson, the acting director of data innovation at ARPA-H, told FedScoop that when it comes to internal operations, the agency’s goal “is to be very, very data driven.” That extends to the design of the agency’s programs and how they’re monitored.
“We want to find what is revolutionary, not evolutionary, and so to do that, we’ve got to understand really what is the state of the art in a particular field?” Thomson said. “And so a lot of that comes from data.”
The contract comes as ARPA-H is still building its infrastructure. The Department of Health and Human Services agency was established in 2022 to support ambitious and innovative research in health and biomedical fields. Its programs so far include strengthening hospital infrastructure in the face of cyberattacks, developing technologies to remove cancerous tumors, and building a mobile health program powered by electric vehicles.
“We’re a new agency. We don’t have a lot of systems in place,” Thomson said. “Palantir is going to be a big part of implementing those systems that are really tailored in a way that makes sense to our unique mission.”
Though Thomson also noted an advantage of being a new agency from an infrastructure standpoint is that “we’re not just talking about cloud-first — we’re cloud-only.” Already Palantir has deployed a cloud-based instance of its data platform at the agency. An appeal of the technology to ARPA-H, Thomson said, was how quickly they could get it up and running.
Hirsh Jain, the head of public health and senior vice president of federal at Palantir, told FedScoop that the company is excited about bringing software systems to ARPA-H to help the agency “run their own core operations more effectively.”
ARPA-H is a “really unprecedented opportunity to drive research and development in health care in the private sector in a way that has the potential to be so instrumental to achieving the next generation of health outcomes,” Jain said.
What Palantir’s software is “going to do is provide a lot of the core infrastructure necessary to run those programs, make those R&D investments, [and] allocate those dollars as effectively as possible,” Jain said.
Foundry is a software that’s aimed at data integration and helping organizations pull existing data sources together and map it into what Palantir calls the “ontology,” which is a way for an organization to see its operations, Jain explained. AIP, which launched last year, is a way for organizations “to use large language models on top of their existing data that they already have access to,” he said.
When it comes to monitoring its programs, Thomson said the software will help the agency inform decisions with data. Each of the agency’s programs have metrics, milestones and deliverables that the agency “aggressively” monitors, he said, and something ARPA-H doesn’t want to do is continue trying something that isn’t working.
“Making good data-driven decisions about when to stop and pivot and try a different approach is really, really critical to us,” Thomson said.
Ultimately, some of the insights from those platforms are intended to be made public. “Our intent is to leverage the platform to produce reports and analytics and things that can be made available to the public as time goes on, so they can see, yes, we are being effective,” Thomson said.
Another area the agency plans to use the AI capabilities of the software for is analyzing the scientific context that a particular program is operating by synthesizing related publications and other sources of knowledge related to that area.
“There are things that we can very quickly assess using AI and get a perspective on it,” Thomson said. He added that reviewing publications and other information is still part of the process, but AI helps to “get a more complete perspective on things because it’s able to have a much broader view.”
In addition to providing the softwares, Palantir will also provide training and data analytics for operating staff at the agency. Thomson said ARPA-H wants to create a culture of data within the agency and the training will help staff make use of the data.
“You can’t be a learning organization without understanding how to understand your data,” he said, adding “training is an important part for us.”
Written by Madison Alder
Madison Alder is a reporter for FedScoop in Washington, D.C., covering government technology. Her reporting has included tracking government uses of artificial intelligence and monitoring changes in federal contracting. She’s broadly interested in issues involving health, law, and data. Before joining FedScoop, Madison was a reporter at Bloomberg Law where she covered several beats, including the federal judiciary, health policy, and employee benefits. A west-coaster at heart, Madison is originally from Seattle and is a graduate of the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State University.
https://fedscoop.com/arpah-enters-data-ai-contract-with-palantir/#:~:text=The%20Advanced%20Research%20Projects%20Agency,million%20contract%20being%20announced%20Thursday.
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Palantir to Unveil New Customers and Product Announcements at AIPCon
June 05, 2024 04:07 PM Eastern Daylight Time
DENVER--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Palantir Technologies Inc. (NYSE: PLTR) today announced that nearly 70 customers will showcase their work in Palantir’s Artificial Intelligence Platform (AIP) at its fourth AIPCon in 12 months. The conference will be live streamed on Thursday, June 6, 2024 on Palantir’s YouTube channel.
New customers – such as United Airlines, Nebraska Medicine, AARP, Lear, Wendy’s QSCC, Edgescale AI, and more – will be showcasing how they use Palantir software. Representatives from organizations with expanded partnerships, such as Tampa General Hospital, will also be speaking.
These customers and others have been going from prototype to production-grade AI via Palantir’s novel AIP Bootcamp initiative. Since its launch, more than 1300 AIP Bootcamps have been completed in the United States and around the world, including nearly 500 additional ones from the last AIPCon in March. Following the release of Build with AIP, customers at AIPCon will unveil the products they’ve built, and guide other customers through building similar workflows on AIP.
Additionally, Palantir will be announcing the Palantir Developer Community at AIPCon, which will bring together global users of Foundry and AIP in a dedicated public forum for the first time in Palantir history. Developers can ask and answer questions, make product suggestions, become early adopters for new features, and more. To join the community, please visit community.palantir.com.
AIPCon will be accessible via live stream on Thursday, June 6, 2024. For questions about joining the waitlist, please email aipcon-2024@palantir.com.
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Tampa General Hospital Selects Palantir’s AI Software to Power Connected Care Coordination, Extending Long-Term Partnership
06:59:00 AM ET, 06/05/2024 - Business Wire
Palantir AIP will serve as the core analytics and AI platform for Tampa General Hospital’s vision for care coordination
AI-powered workflows for bed placement, patient itineraries, and staffing allocation have already shown drastic improvements in patient care, sharply reducing patient waiting time and length of stay
TAMPA, Fla. & DENVER--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jun. 5, 2024--Tampa General Hospital (TGH) and Palantir Technologies Inc. (NYSE: PLTR) ("Palantir"), a leading builder of artificial intelligence (AI) systems for the health care sector and the modern enterprise, today announced a significant step forward in their long-term partnership to deliver on an ambitious vision for the future of AI in health care.
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Tampa General, one of the nation’s leading academic health systems, plans to deploy Palantir’s Artificial Intelligence Platform (AIP) to deliver a Care Coordination Operating System, which will securely encode Tampa General’s domain expertise, real-time situational awareness, and large-language models into decision-support tools to power eligibility and prioritization workflows for frontline teams across all aspects of care operations. TGH will also leverage this platform to bring automation to other system workflows, including streamlining revenue cycle management.
Tampa General will use AIP to encode its clinical expertise into eligibility and prioritization decisions on the frontlines, to ensure patients receive the right care in the right place as quickly and safely possible. Its new Hospital Sync application suite and insights, powered by Palantir software, aims to set the standard for optimal care coordination nationwide.
Tampa General Hospital and Palantir Technologies started working together in 2021, when TGH implemented Palantir’s Foundry software to revolutionize health care management, optimize operational efficiency and enhance patient outcomes. Since then, Tampa General has expanded its use of Palantir’s software from one to more than a dozen use cases across the health system, contributing to meaningful, measurable improvements in patient care. For example, Tampa General cut by 83% the amount of time required to place patients and post anesthesia care unit (PACU) holds declined 28%. In addition, the mean length of stay for sepsis patients went down 30%.
“We are on a mission to transform health care through innovation, and Palantir’s technology platforms enable us to leverage data to improve quality and strengthen our operations,” said John Couris, president and CEO of Tampa General Hospital. “Less time waiting for placement and a reduced length of stay does not just enhance the patient experience, it gives us an opportunity to treat more patients that need care. These improvements, powered by data and technology, contribute to better and more robust treatment plans, which in turn, can lead to better patient outcomes.”
“Our partnership is proving that software is vital for overcoming many of the most pressing healthcare challenges that we collectively face,” said Alex Karp, co-founder and chief executive officer of Palantir Technologies Inc. “Tampa General has become an industry leader in leveraging technology to deliver even further improvements in patient care.”
Palantir’s engineers will continue working closely with Tampa General’s operations, analytics, and clinical subject matter experts as part of this next phase. In addition to the expanded partnership, Palantir will be joining the Tampa Medical and Research District, which boasts a variety of health care organizations from academics and clinical care to research and biotechnology, in the heart of Tampa Bay. The District, which is anchored by Tampa General and the University of South Florida Morsani College of Medicine, is the driving force behind Tampa’s growing reputation as a global destination for world-class care.
Learn more about how Palantir is driving next-generation operations and outcomes for health systems.
About Tampa General Hospital
Tampa General Hospital, a 981-bed, not-for-profit, academic health system, is one of the largest hospitals in America and delivers world-class care as the region’s only center for Level l trauma and comprehensive burn care. Tampa General Hospital is the highest-ranked hospital in the market in U.S. News & World Report's 2023-24 Best Hospitals [health.usnews.com], with six specialties ranking among the top 50 best hospital programs in the United States. Tampa General Hospital has been designated as a model of excellence by the 2022 Fortune/Merative 100 Top Hospitals list. [tgh.org] The academic health system’s commitment to growing and developing its team members is recognized by two prestigious Forbes magazine rankings – in the top 100 nationally in the 2023 America's Best Employers for Women [forbes.com] and top 25 in Florida in the 2023 America’s Best Employers by State [forbes.com]. Tampa General is the safety net hospital for the region, caring for everyone regardless of their ability to pay, and in fiscal year 2021, provided a net community benefit of approximately $240.3 million in the form of health care for underinsured patients, community education, and financial support to community health organizations in Tampa Bay. It is one of the nation’s busiest adult solid organ transplant centers and is the primary teaching hospital for the USF Health Morsani College of Medicine. With six medical helicopters, Tampa General Hospital transports critically injured or ill patients from 23 surrounding counties to receive the advanced care they need. Tampa General houses a nationally accredited comprehensive stroke center, and its 32-bed Neuroscience, Intensive Care Unit is the largest on the West Coast of Florida. It also is home to the Muma Children’s Hospital at TGH, the Jennifer Leigh Muma 82-bed neonatal intensive care unit, and a nationally accredited rehabilitation center. Tampa General Hospital’s footprint includes TGH North which is comprised of three hospitals and several outpatient locations in Citrus and Hernando counties, 17 Tampa General Medical Group Primary Care offices, TGH Family Care Center Kennedy, TGH Outpatient Center, TGH Virtual Health, and 21 TGH Imaging [tghimaging.com] outpatient radiology centers throughout Hillsborough, Pasco, Pinellas and Palm Beach counties. Tampa Bay area residents also receive world-class care from the TGH Urgent Care powered by Fast Track network of clinics. To see a medical care professional live anytime, anywhere on a smartphone, tablet or computer, visit Virtual Health | Tampa General Hospital (tgh.org) [tgh.org]. As one of the largest hospitals in the country, Tampa General Hospital is the first in Florida to partner with GE Healthcare and open a clinical command center that provides real-time situational awareness to improve and better coordinate patient care at a lower cost. For more information, go to www.tgh.org [tgh.org].
About Palantir Technologies
Palantir builds category-leading software that empowers organizations to create and govern artificial intelligence across public and private networks. Since 2003, we have helped some of the world's most important organizations solve their most difficult problems. Foundational Software of Tomorrow. Delivered Today.
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This press release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. These statements may relate to, but are not limited to, Palantir’s expectations regarding the amount and terms of the contract and the expected benefits of our software platforms. Forward-looking statements are inherently subject to risks and uncertainties, some of which cannot be predicted or quantified. Forward-looking statements are based on information available at the time those statements are made and were based on current expectations as well as the beliefs and assumptions of management as of that time with respect to future events. These statements are subject to risks and uncertainties, many of which involve factors or circumstances that are beyond our control. These risks and uncertainties include our ability to meet the unique needs of our customer; the failure of our platforms to satisfy our customer or perform as desired; the frequency or severity of any software and implementation errors; our platforms’ reliability; and our customer’s ability to modify or terminate the contract. Additional information regarding these and other risks and uncertainties is included in the filings we make with the Securities and Exchange Commission from time to time. Except as required by law, we do not undertake any obligation to publicly update or revise any forward-looking statement, whether as a result of new information, future developments, or otherwise.
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Palantir Selected by Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office (CDAO) to Participate in Scaling Data Analytics and AI Capabilities Across the Department of Defense in Support of CJADC2 Strategy
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Thu, May 30, 2024, 4:00 PM EDT
DENVER, May 30, 2024--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Palantir Technologies Inc. (NYSE: PLTR) today announced that the Department of Defense Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office (CDAO) awarded its subsidiary, Palantir USG, Inc., a production contract to make licenses of their AI-enabled operating system available across the Department of Defense. Starting with an initial order of $153 million to support certain Combatant Commands and the Joint Staff, additional awards can be made up to $480 million over a 5-year period.
Additionally, CDAO has awarded Palantir a prototype Other Transaction (OT) for $33 million to rapidly and securely onboard third-party vendor and government capabilities into the government-owned, Palantir-operated data environment to meet priority Combatant Command digital needs.
"These awards represent a vital step in warfighter adoption of AI, moving cutting-edge technology from experiment to enterprise production," said Shannon Clark, Head of Defense Growth, Palantir. "We are proud to support the CDAO, enabling commanders to make better, faster decisions across all domains at unprecedented scale."
Palantir’s commercial solutions will be part of the larger CJADC2 ecosystem integrating with other vendors and programs to support battlespace awareness, global integration, contested logistics, joint fires, and targeting workflows. Users will benefit from the current data integrations created as a result of Palantir’s work on fielding AI/ML tools for the warfighter over the last several years.
"In this era of geopolitical competition, the CDAO has become an essential leader in bringing operational CJADC2 capabilities to life through the agile, effective, and responsible deployment of AI/ML," said Akash Jain, President of Palantir USG. "Palantir is honored to continue supporting the CDAO’s mission to develop, field, and scale AI-enabled solutions that advance U.S. defense, and we look forward to working alongside America’s warfighters to ensure these efforts are effective where they matter most – in the field and in the hands of decision-makers at all echelons."
Additionally, government operators and third-party vendors will be able to build data integrations, pipelines, and applications within the platform or on other platforms through open APIs and Ontology Software Development Kits (OSDKs). Palantir’s open infrastructure provides organic use for flexible and rapid response at speed while maintaining the secure collaboration needed to ensure access controls and data protection.
This work follows Palantir’s long-standing partnership with CDAO to support the Global Information Dominance Experiment (GIDE) events, and the development of proven, real-world applications for advanced technologies.
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Foundational software of tomorrow. Delivered today. Additional information is available at https://www.palantir.com.
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