Morning Headlines 11/22/23
Patient privacy fears as US spy tech firm Palantir wins £330m NHS contract
NHS England awards a consortium that includes Palantir and Accenture a five-year, $415 million contract to develop and operate the Federated Data Platform data-sharing platform across NHS trusts and care sites.
TCS Q3 to take $125 million hit on Epic Systems Corporation legal woes
Tata Consultancy Services will pay $140 million in punitive damages to Epic related to a 2014 case in which Epic accused TCS of downloading confidential material from UserWeb by having its employees pretend to be Epic customer consultants.
Fifteen faculty members of UTHealth’s bioinformatics school are awarded $31 million in grants, $19 million of which came from NIH’s National Institute on Aging.
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