CHA Named Winner of 2025 Amazon Web Services Children’s Health Innovation Award

KANSAS CITY, Kan. — Children’s Hospital Association (CHA) has been selected as a winner of the 2025 Amazon Web Services (AWS) Imagine Grant: Children’s Health Innovation Award, a grant opportunity designed to accelerate innovation to improve children’s health outcomes with the use of advanced cloud services. The grant will support CHA's Children’s Health Learning Platform, a secure, cloud-based platform powered by AWS that responsibly integrates pediatric health data. This platform will use advanced technologies to empower member hospitals and researchers to collaborate, uncover health trends, and improve care. CHA envisions the shared space will provide faster, smarter insights that enhance care delivery and drive improvements in children’s health.

CHA 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. CHA 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.

“Children’s Hospital Association is a leader in children’s health care, and we are delighted that this critical project to improve collaboration across the pediatric care space has been recognized for the value it will bring to children nationwide,” said Michael Roco, Vice President of Data Transformation at CHA. “The award alone is an honor, but the grant that comes with it will help us develop this platform to empower children’s hospitals and researchers to collaborate, uncover health trends, and improve care. We envision the Learning Platform providing faster, smarter insights that enhance care delivery and drive improvements in children’s health. I am proud of our team and look forward to implementing this system to improve care for kids.”

“This year's AWS Children's Health Innovation Award recipients are truly inspiring,” said Allyson Fryhoff, Managing Director, Global Healthcare and Life Sciences at AWS. “These leading pediatric institutions are using AWS technology to transform how we care for children worldwide. From using generative AI for personalized treatment decisions to creating predictive analytics for disease prevention, their projects share a powerful vision: making high-quality care more accessible, predictive, and effective for every child. At AWS, we're proud to support this collaborative innovation that's building a future where every child can access the best possible care, informed by data and delivered with precision and compassion.”

Since the launch of the Imagine Grant program in 2018, AWS has awarded more than $16 million in unrestricted funding, AWS cloud computing credits, and technical expertise to more than 140 nonprofit organizations. Learn more about past recipients and how nonprofits use AWS to advance their missions around the world at the AWS for nonprofits hub. For more information on the AWS Imagine Grant, visit the Imagine Grant website.