Omaha-based Nebraska Medicine has signed a new five-year, multimillion-dollar deal with data analytics company Palantir to predict hospital bed necessity, manage the supply chain and make staffing recommendations.
Nebraska Medicine started working with Palantir in January and became the fastest-ever health system to adopt its platform, the company said. The system has already experienced a 2,000% increase in discharge lounge utilization and sent more than 1,200 artificial intelligence-generated appeal letters to payers.
"The technology allows our staff to work smarter, and for more of our patients to leave the hospital as soon as they're able," Nebraska Medicine President and COO Michael Ash, MD, said in a Sept. 17 statement. "Most exciting for us — this is just the beginning of the innovations we'll discover together and lead the way for other hospitals."
Palantir's other health system clients include Cleveland Clinic, Nashville, Tenn.-based HCA Healthcare, and Tampa (Fla.) General Hospital. The company declined to specify the dollar amount of the deal to Becker's.