Palantir joins the PRSB's Standards Partnership Scheme

Palantir, a technology supplier specialising in software that empowers organizations to effectively integrate their data, decisions, and operations has joined the Professional Record Standards Body (PRSB) as a partner, joining a community of suppliers working closely with PRSB to drive adoption of information record standards that are the backbone of digital health and care information sharing and critical to improving data quality for direct patient care, planning, service improvement and research.  

The Standards Partnership Scheme connects health and social care digital system suppliers with PRSB, to accelerate the adoption of PRSB standards. Partners include more than 70 of the key system suppliers in health and social care and as more suppliers adopt information record standards, consistently high-quality information will flow across the health and care system both for providing care and improving it.  

By becoming a partner to PRSB, the recognised UK authority on standards for information records, Palantir joins a unique community of suppliers working with our member organisations, professional bodies and patient representative groups.  

“At PRSB we firmly believe that data is care. And high quality, safe care depends on excellent data quality, supported by information record standards that have the backing of professionals and patients. We look forward to working with Palantir, who are like-minded in their determination to improve the quality of data by supporting a standards-driven ethos across the health and care system,” said Professor Maureen Baker, CBE, Chair of the PRSB. 

Justin Whatling, Health Lead at Palantir, commented: “The PRSB is the pre-eminent body driving the improvement of health records and this partnership underlines our determination to hold ourselves to it’s rigorous mark and help drive forward this critical agenda. Through our membership, we will work with the PRSB to create new opportunities to establish common standards.”  

Notes to editors 

The PRSB is a not-for-profit organisation dedicated to the development and implementation of standards in health and social care to ensure that information in health and social care records can be accessed by the right people, in the right place, at the right time. We are an established part of the standards infrastructure across the UK, and our standards are recognised widely as the authoritative source of information for achieving standards excellence. The PRSB Standards Partnership Scheme. 

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