Becker's Healthcare July 17, 2020
The Trump administration directed hospitals to send COVID-19 data directly to HHS instead of the CDC on July 10, which hospitals had been doing for the past several months.
The agency has a federal contract with Palantir Technologies to power the platform that aggregates data for the project, called HHS Protect.
Here are five things to know about Palantir:
1. Peter Thiel founded Palo Alto, Calif.-based Palantir in 2004 as a big data and analytics company.
2. The company aims to go public in the near future. On July 1, Palantir filed a Form D that noted it was raising $961 million, with $549 million already raised. The company has a $26 billion valuation.
3. Palantir’s system aggregates information on...
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