The Cleveland Clinic has entered into a multi-year partnership with Palantir Technologies Inc. (NYSE: PLTR), an operating system builder that will provide a “Virtual Command Center” for the Clinic.
The center aims to promote operational excellence and improve patient access, enabling data-driven decision making and resource allocation on the hospital’s front lines, according to a press release. .
The clinic advised on the development of Palantir’s Virtual Command Center, which is used today across the healthcare system to help improve care delivery across all operational pathways, including, according to the release: helps improve streamlined staff allocation, wait times, duty beds, and overall use of critical resources.
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Rohit Chandra, the Clinic’s chief digital officer, said: “Implementing the Virtual Command Center as the foundation of our hospital operations will transform our organization and its ongoing mission. We are about providing the highest quality of care to every patient”. “We are proud to partner with Palantir to equip our caregivers with the tools to make the best decisions for patient care.”
According to the press release, the Virtual Command Center is built on top of Palantir Foundry, leveraging its artificial intelligence and machine learning infrastructure and capabilities. Virtual command center to help forecast the number of hospital admissions, discharges and transfers of patients; assess the availability of caregivers and hospital beds; and make real-time recommendations to help managers make better use of hospital resources, adjust staffing levels, reduce wait times, and ultimately provide greater accessibility for patients, according to the press release.
“The right software is essential to modern healthcare, and we’re thrilled to be partnering with the Cleveland Clinic to bring the experience and expertise of the Cleveland Clinic,” said Shyam Sankar, director of Palantir. Foundry aims to enable data-driven decision making and its application to hospital operations.” executives, in a statement.
“Virtual Command Centers not only improve efficiency and financial outcomes for Cleveland Clinic facilities, but they also allow more patients to be seen and treated every day, and that’s exactly the kind of outcome.” important in the mission that Palantir built on,” said Sankar.
This story first appeared in Crain’s Cleveland Business.
