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Palantir won its contract with the NHS back in 2023. There was a fair amount of concern.
One of the world's biggest tech companies, mostly known for its surveillance
and military software, was promising to transform the UK's health service.
Palantir was awarded a £330 million contract to build a new digital platform
that would seamlessly join up patient data and make the whole process of treating people easier, quicker, better.
Now, it just needed to convince its customers.
This really interesting thing happens in May 24. All the top NHS data professionals
and experts get kind of summoned to a conference or like a meeting, if you like.
They were health service people, data experts, the people
who are really charged with using the federated data platform and really making it work.