“The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention once again extended and expanded a contract with Palantir Technologies to apply its outbreak response and disease surveillance solution to more respiratory diseases.”
“Palantir will continue to modernize the Data Collation and Integration for Public Health Event Response (DCIPHER) environment, built on its Foundry platform, to ensure CDC has the infrastructure necessary to perform genomic sequencing of variants and track them and their outcomes.”
“DCIPHER is one of Palantir’s longest-running public health software partnerships, having run more than a decade, and influenced its COVID-19 pandemic response support — despite being a separate initiative encompassing food-borne outbreaks, Ebola, anthrax management and bacterial special pathogens.”
“’Beyond COVID, by incorporating innovative genomic workflows into traditional public health surveillance, CDC is building upon its foundational investments in a modernized technology infrastructure,’ said Dr. William Kassler, chief medical officer for U.S. government at Palantir, in an April 15 announcement.”
“The CDC is increasingly investing in modular technology that can apply COVID-19 use cases to other diseases and incorporate granular demographic data from multiple sources to help improve health equity in underserved communities, according to a person with knowledge of the contract…” Read the full article here.
Source: CDC expands Palantir’s non-COVID disease surveillance contract again – By Dave Nyczepir, April 26, 2022. FedScoop.
