"Too often, people have assumed children are small adults with small problems," Adam Resnick, director of the Center for Data-Driven Discovery in Biomedicine at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, tells Healthcare IT News.
"Children's medical disorders are just as complex as those in adults, and many, probably most, set the child upfor later life complications."
Now, with $10 million in funding from Amazon Web Services, Resnick and others are hoping to change that.
Per the Washington Post, AWS is providing $7 million for "cloud-based data resources for pediatric research, maternal child total health, and empowering pediatric workforces and caregivers."
That includes $3 million to three children's hospitalsChildren's National Hospital in Washington, DC; Nationwide Children's Hospital in Columbus, Ohio; and the Children's Hospital of Philadelphiato develop tools and applications to improve screening for rare genetic diseases, including cancer.
"What we really want to do is make rare cancers less rare by providing this comprehensive information to those who really want to investigate for a variety of discovery-based goals," Elaine Mardis, co-executive director of the Steve and Cindy Rasmussen Institute for Genomic Medicine in the Abigail Wexner Research Institute at Nationwide Children's
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