The University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) announced that it is planning to build a $100 million data warehouse over the next five years to support an enterprise-wide analytics initiative fostering personalized medicine.
Working with technology partners Oracle, IBM, Informatica, and dbMotion, UPMC plans to install hardware and software to create a comprehensive data warehouse that will acquire data from more than 200 sources of information at UPMC and outside entities, including labs and pharmacies. The data and analytic tools will be accessible in real-time to clinicians, researchers, and administrators.
UPMC currently stores more than 3.2 petabytes of data, and expects huge amounts of genomic information from gene sequencing to be added to the database in the future.
Terms of agreements with UPMC vendor partners were not disclosed. The $100 million investment does include internal salary costs, training, and other operational support.
