NHS England says that software that pulls together masses of records will allow doctors to spot patterns in illness, use resources better and improve hospitals falling behind on backlog recovery. They insist this is not a database and the company operating the software will not be able to see medical records.
However, others in the health service are scarred by the collapse a decade ago of the care.data scheme to create a database of GP records, which was abandoned after a revolt by family doctors.
There is nervousness among senior doctors that the NHS has not explained the rationale for the scheme and the potential role of Palantir.
It is a database, there’s literally no way it couldn’t be, well, unless it’s several replicas of the same database. Which I guess would be more than one database.
No way this isn’t a database. If Palantir are hosting the data then they can see it, plain and simple.
Whatever happened to doctor-patient confidentiality. /s
The myth of consent.
Patient: I do not consent.
Doctor: I do not consent.
Palantir… literally named after an instrument of Sauron: Is there somebody you forgot to ask?
Now now, Sauron was the arsehole who misused it. They made by Faenor
