The adoption of Palantir’s data platform across the health service has accelerated across England over the past six months but has fallen behind internal rollout goals set by the NHS amid pervasive doubts over its value from some health leaders.
A total of 87 acute NHS trusts and 28 integrated care boards have signed up to use the Federated Data Platform, according to information supplied to the Financial Times by NHS England.
The FDP uses software to bring together a variety of different data from separate systems — including availability of beds and medical supplies and waiting list sizes — to help improve efficiency and productivity across trusts.