Children's Mercy Kansas City Named Winner of 2024 Amazon Web Services Inaugural Children's Health Innovation Award
Children’s Mercy Kansas City today announced it has been selected as a winner of the 2024 Amazon Web Services (AWS) IMAGINE Grant: Children’s Health Innovation Award, a new grant opportunity designed to accelerate innovation to improve children’s health outcomes with the use of advanced cloud services, such as generative AI. By focusing on children’s health, AWS seeks to bring more focus and attention to a wide variety of causes and care organizations who are dedicated to helping children live longer, healthier lives, through the strategic use of cloud technology.
“This grant will help us create a living lab to advance digital clinical pathways using smart home technology,” said Brian Lancaster, Sr. Vice President and Chief Information Officer at Children’s Mercy. “By enabling proactive notifications, remote monitoring and better insights into triggers, we will be able to provide families with real-time information and equip clinicians with data-driven tools for more personalized and proactive care.”
Children’s Mercy was named a recipient in the Children’s Health Innovation Award category, which recognizes highly innovative, mission-critical projects accelerating children’s health innovation using advanced cloud services such as generative AI. Children’s Mercy will receive a combination of funding and AWS computing credits, along with implementation support from technical specialists. Proposals were considered based on several criteria, including the innovative and unique nature of the project, impact on mission-critical goals, and clearly defined outcomes and milestones.
"We are thrilled to announce this inaugural cohort of recipients pursuing groundbreaking advancements in children's health, pediatric care, and research enabled by the AWS Cloud," said Dave Levy, head of worldwide public sector at AWS. "From applications of generative AI to enable precision care in pediatric genomics, to AI-powered tools for physicians that will provide access to more data insights than ever before, these organizations have audacious plans to improve children's health outcomes on a global scale. We're excited to work closely with them to realize these goals with cloud technology."
For more information on the AWS IMAGINE Grant, visit aws.amazon.com/IMAGINE-grant