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ROCHESTER, Minn. The AT&T Foundation on Monday announced a three-year contribution of $2.5 million to Mayo Clinic to fund development of its data warehouse that will collect and store information for its Cancer Center Analytics Project.
The cancer center treats more than 19,500 new cancer patients annually, the clinic said. Its Enterprise Data Trust will help manage the growth of patient data to researchers can analyze the information more quickly and effectively.
"Our efforts to build the EDT are critical to providing a single logical enterprisewide data warehouse," said Franklyn Prendergast, director of Mayo Clinic's Center for Individualized Medicine.
The contribution by AT&T's corporate philanthropy organization builds on a $900,000 donation announced earlier this year to benefit the clinic's Life Sciences System, which captures data to create more individualized patient care.
Both the Enterprise Data Trust and the Life Sciences System are part of Mayo's collaboration with IBM to implement an enterprise data model for the health care industry, Mayo said in a news release.
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