Tampa (Fla.) General Hospital’s data and AI partnership with Denver-based Palantir Technologies is gaining fresh recognition after the Tampa Bay Business Journal named the collaboration a 2026 Inno Award winner for “Partnership of the Year.”
The academic health system began working with Palantir in 2021, first implementing the company’s Foundry software. Since then, Tampa General has expanded its use across more than a dozen clinical and operational areas. Most recently, the hospital began deploying Palantir’s Artificial Intelligence Platform to deliver a Care Coordination Operating System designed to encode domain expertise, real-time situational awareness and large-language models into decision-support tools. The system supports eligibility and workflow prioritization across care operations, including revenue cycle management.
The collaboration has yielded measurable improvements, according to a Dec. 3 news release from Tampa General. A Sepsis Hub developed with Palantir has been instrumental in saving more than 700 lives as of November 2025 by identifying high-risk patients and enabling earlier clinical intervention. Other reported outcomes include a 30% improvement in MRI turnaround times, an 83% reduction in patient placement time, a 28% decrease in post-anesthesia care unit holds, and a 30% reduction in length of stay for sepsis patients.
Tampa General President and CEO John Couris said Palantir’s team has been embedded within the hospital since the beginning of the partnership, rapidly building custom solutions to improve operational efficiency, financial resilience and patient safety. Scott Arnold, executive vice president and chief digital and innovation officer, said the collaboration stands apart from typical vendor relationships by enabling side-by-side work to translate data into actionable insights.
