Tampa General and Palantir were recognized for their ongoing collaboration to revolutionize care coordination and delivery at the region’s only academic health system.
TAMPA, Fla., Dec. 3, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — Tampa General Hospital (TGH) is one of three companies honored by the Tampa Bay Business Journal with a 2026 Inno Award in the “Partnership of the Year” category, recognizing the academic health system’s groundbreaking collaboration with Palantir Technologies. Together, the two organizations have worked to build a unified operating system for the academic health system, using artificial intelligence and advanced analytics to enhance patient outcomes and drive health care innovation in the Tampa Bay region and beyond.
“We are proud to be recognized alongside our partners at Palantir for harnessing the power of data and analytics for the future,” said John Couris, president and CEO of Tampa General. “From day one of our partnership, the Palantir team has embedded themselves within our organization to identify the opportunities to drive the highest impact for our patients, providers and team members. In a matter of days and weeks, whether other vendors might have taken months or years, Palantir built bespoke solutions that optimized operational efficiency, financial resilience and most importantly, patient safety and quality of care.”
Tampa General and Palantir first partnered in 2021, when the academic health system implemented Palantir’s Foundry software. Since then, Tampa General has expanded the use of Palantir’s software from one to more than a dozen use cases across the system.
Most notably, Tampa General is deploying Palantir’s Artificial Intelligence Platform (AIP) to deliver a Care Coordination Operating System, which will securely encode domain expertise, real-time situational awareness and large-language models into Tampa General’s decision-support tools to power eligibility and prioritize workflows for frontline teams across all aspects of care operations, including streamlining revenue cycle management.
Tampa General and Palantir’s collaboration has yielded significant results, including the creation of a comprehensive Sepsis Hub, which has been instrumental in saving over 700 lives (as of November 2025) by identifying high-risk patients and facilitating earlier clinical intervention. The partnership has also led to a 30% improvement in MRI imaging turnaround time, an 83% reduction in patient placement time and a 28% decrease in post-anesthesia care unit (PACU) holds. Furthermore, the Sepsis Hub has contributed to a 30% reduction in length of stay for sepsis patients, demonstrating the power of integrating intelligent software with front-line clinical operations.
“This recognition is a powerful affirmation of the tangible benefits stemming from our work with Palantir,” said Scott Arnold, executive vice president and chief digital and innovation officer at Tampa General. “Unlike traditional vendor relationships, Palantir’s dedicated engineers work side-by-side with our teams, enabling us to harness industry-leading technologies, overcome long-standing industry challenges and translate patient data into actionable insights that improve patient care.”
Tampa General and Palantir accepted the award together at a reception held on Nov. 18 at Hotel Haya in Downtown Tampa. The complete list of the Tampa Bay Business Journal’s 2026 Inno Award honorees is available here.
ABOUT TAMPA GENERAL HOSPITAL
Tampa General Hospital, a 981-bed, not-for-profit, academic health system, is one of the largest hospitals in America and delivers world-class care as the region’s only center for Level l trauma and comprehensive burn care. Tampa General Hospital is the highest-ranked hospital in the market in U.S. News & World Report’s 2024-2025 Best Hospitals, with two medical specialties ranking among the top 20 in the nation and eight medical specialties ranking among the top 50 best hospital programs in the United States. Tampa General Hospital has been designated as a model of excellence by the 2022 Fortune/Merative 100 Top Hospitals list. The academic health system’s commitment to growing and developing its team members is recognized by three prestigious Forbes magazine rankings – in the top 100 nationally in the 2024 America’s Best Large Employers, the top 50 in Florida in the 2024 America’s Best Employers by State and the 2023 America’s Best Employers for Women. Tampa General is the safety net hospital for the region, caring for everyone regardless of their ability to pay, and in fiscal year 2023, provided a net community benefit of approximately $301.8 million in the form of health care for underinsured patients, community education, and financial support to community health organizations in Tampa Bay. It was the nation’s busiest adult solid organ transplant center in 2024 and is the primary teaching hospital for the USF Health Morsani College of Medicine. With five medical helicopters, Tampa General Hospital transports critically injured or ill patients from 23 surrounding counties to receive the advanced care they need. Tampa General houses a nationally accredited comprehensive stroke center, and its 32-bed Neuroscience, Intensive Care Unit is the largest on the West Coast of Florida. It also is home to the Muma Children’s Hospital at TGH, the Jennifer Leigh Muma 82-bed neonatal intensive care unit, and a nationally accredited rehabilitation center. Tampa General Hospital’s footprint includes TGH North, which is comprised of three hospitals and several outpatient locations in Citrus and Hernando counties, 17 Tampa General Medical Group Primary Care offices, TGH Family Care Center Kennedy, two TGH Outpatient Centers, TGH Virtual Health, and 19 TGH Imaging outpatient radiology centers throughout Hillsborough, Pasco, Pinellas and Palm Beach counties. Tampa Bay area residents also receive world-class care from the TGH Urgent Care powered by the Fast Track network of clinics. To see a medical care professional live anytime, anywhere on a smartphone, tablet or computer, visit Virtual Health | Tampa General Hospital (tgh.org). As one of the largest hospitals in the country, Tampa General Hospital is the first in Florida to open a clinical command center that provides real-time situational awareness to improve and better coordinate patient care at a lower cost. For more information, go to www.tgh.org.
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