Palantir And Cognizant Take AI Into Healthcare & More

Palantir and Cognizant are teaming up to bring AI into healthcare and other regulated enterprise environments, but the interesting part is where they’re aiming to use it. 

The partnership brings together Palantir’s Foundry platform and Artificial Intelligence Platform (AIP) with Cognizant’s scale, delivery model, and longstanding presence in healthcare through its TriZetto business.

Why healthcare and regulated industries need added focus on governance as AI scales

Those systems come with a lot of baggage: sensitive data, strict compliance rules, and a real need to understand what the software is doing and why. 

That’s where this partnership makes sense. Both companies are leaning into governance not as a talking point, but because it’s the only way AI works in environments like this.

“This partnership reflects our commitment to using frontier technologies to deliver value for our clients, while also transforming our own businesses for the next era of AI-led growth,” said Surya Gummadi, president, Americas, Cognizant. 

“By combining Palantir’s AI platform capabilities with Cognizant’s deep industry expertise and global engineering scale, we are strengthening our ability to modernize mission-critical platforms like TriZetto while creating new opportunities to build purpose-driven, enterprise-grade solutions that help clients transform how they operate and deliver the experiences and outcomes their customers expect,” Gummadi continued.

Palantir continues efforts to grow in commercial customers

For Palantir, this partnership lines up with its more recent push into commercial customers. Healthcare and large enterprises tend to wrestle with the same basic problem: massive amounts of data, wrapped in layers of regulation. 

That’s a space Palantir knows well, and one where its software has been built to operate from the start, especially when AI needs to be explainable, auditable, and tightly governed.

Plugging into Cognizant’s TriZetto platforms and its broader BPaaS operations puts Palantir right next to the systems healthcare organizations rely on every day. That’s meaningful. 

Software that lives inside recurring workflows tends to stick, not because it’s flashy, but because it becomes part of how work actually gets done. It also gives Palantir a smoother way in. 

Instead of forcing its way through long, complex healthcare sales cycles on its own, it’s entering through a partner that already knows the terrain.

“Enterprise AI doesn’t fail because models are weak,” said Eric Lakin, U.S. commercial lead, Palantir. “It fails when AI lacks a shared, governed understanding of how the business actually operates – something only the Ontology can provide.”

Why MSPs and other channel partners should take note of the enterprise deal

Execution will be the real test here. Large healthcare IT programs move excruciatingly slow, priorities change often, and results take time to show up in financials. 

That’s especially relevant for Palantir, which already trades with high expectations baked in. Still, Cognizant’s ability to industrialize and deliver at scale gives Palantir a pretty smooth path to expanding beyond one-off deployments.

This also says a lot for MSPs. 

When AI gets built into regulated systems, it’s not an experiment (if you want to call it that) anymore. Someone has to integrate it, make sure it stays compliant, and keep it running. 

That’s the reality of supporting enterprise environments as AI becomes part of the stack.

For more context on how this trend is playing out for MSPs, we recently looked at how AI governance is reshaping risk and compliance for service providers. We break down why partners are now having to think harder about how AI fits into tightly regulated environments and what that means for everyday support and security work.