Amazon Web Services awarded more than $1.8 million in cash and cloud computing credits to 11 organizations, including five children’s hospitals, through its 2026 AWS Imagine Grant Children’s Health Innovation Award, the company said Oct. 5.
Recipients also get technical guidance from AWS. Here is what the five hospitals plan to build:
— Columbus, Ohio-based Nationwide Children’s Hospital will expand its GENIUS machine learning platform, which has cut time to genetic diagnosis by 50% for critically ill infants, from its main campus neonatal intensive care unit to six more NICUs in central Ohio and into primary care. The hospital is also building a heart center data lake that links genomic results to long-term cardiac outcomes.
— Seattle Children’s Hospital is creating a cloud platform that converts more than 35,000 electroencephalogram studies and imaging, genomic and clinical data from more than 6,000 pediatric epilepsy patients into AI-ready formats for biomarker discovery.
— Fort Worth, Texas-based Cook Children’s Health Care System is developing PRECEDE, a cloud platform that unifies EHR, EEG, imaging and genomic data for children with rare and drug-resistant epilepsy.
— Norfolk, Va.-based Children’s Hospital of The King’s Daughters is building an AI system that predicts medication nonadherence in real time for children with conditions such as asthma, diabetes and epilepsy, then triggers care team alerts and reminders.
— Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago will extend its Intelligent Chart Assist tool to pediatric transplant care, using Amazon Bedrock to turn hundreds of pages of outside records into clinician-ready summaries with every fact traceable to its source.
The other recipients are Battelle Memorial Institute, the Jackson Laboratory, NYC School Bus Umbrella Services, Orbis International, Sanford Burnham Prebys and the Wildlife Conservation Society. Sanford Burnham Prebys’ brain tumor platform will produce treatment recommendations for molecular tumor boards at San Diego and Orange, Calif.-based Rady Children’s Health.
The awards are part of AWS’ $10 million commitment to children’s health.
