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A controversial multimillion-dollar<\/span> deal between New York City\u2019s public hospital system and military contractor Palantir, first reported by The Intercept, is coming to an end, according to recent testimony before the city council.<\/p>\n The Intercept reported<\/a> in February that the New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation, which operates a network of public health care facilities across the city, had paid Palantir almost $4 million since 2023 for data analysis services. NYCHH says it used Palantir\u2019s software to boost its efficiency in billing Medicaid and other public benefits, which included the automated scanning of patient health notes.<\/p>\n The contract prompted protests from activists and local organizers who objected to the hospital system\u2019s use of software from a company whose technology has facilitated lethal airstrike<\/a> targeting, wide-reaching surveillance<\/a> of American citizens, and deportation raids<\/a> by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents.<\/p>\n \u201cThey should have no place in our hospitals, our pension funds, or our government.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/figure>\n At a March 16 meeting of the New York City Council, NYC Health + Hospitals CEO Mitchell Katz disclosed that Palantir\u2019s contract will not be renewed come October. Katz defended the health care network\u2019s collaboration with Palantir on the grounds that there was an \u201cabsolute firewall\u201d between patient data and the company\u2019s government customers, such as ICE, that would prevent information sharing. \u201cWe haven\u2019t had any problems,\u201d Katz said, \u201cAnd we\u2019re going to end the contract anyway because we always intended it to be a short-term solution.\u201d<\/p>\n According to Katz, data analysis previously conducted with Palantir\u2019s help will be brought in-house following the contract\u2019s expiration.<\/p>\n \u201cPalantir makes money by enabling mass violence in the U.S. and around the world. They should have no place in our hospitals, our pension funds, or our government,\u201d said Kenny Morris, an organizer with the American Friends Service Committee, which shared the contract documents with The Intercept.<\/p>\n \u201cOur campaign against Palantir doesn\u2019t stop in NYC,\u201d Morris said. \u201cWe will continue to isolate this company and limit its destructive influence on our lives. In this city and around the world, communities are organizing to push more and more corporate clients, institutions, and politicians to cut ties with Palantir.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n #Palantir #Longer #Profit #Yorkers #Health #Data<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A controversial multimillion-d… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28646,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[246],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28645"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28645"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28645\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/28646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n