Take health innovation beyond ideas to working digital products and impact
From one-day hackathons to year-long innovation programs, we help health systems, universities and innovation networks turn frontline insight, research and early-stage ideas into working digital products and pathways, built around real-world needs and a clear route to use.
Cogniss’s no-code technology and proven development process mean participants can build products without having to assemble software development teams.
Digital health innovation is either too difficult or too easy.
Developing a patient-facing app is either too difficult or too easy. Too difficult through traditional software development, which takes too long, costs too much and leaves you without real control. Too easy through AI app builders, where you can't be sure the code is safe, compliant or reliable.
Cogniss offers a third way - innovation that you're in control of. It allows you to develop products quickly, safely and cost-effectively.
Supporting innovators through programs and partnerships with:
Create tailored health solutions that move the needle on patient and system outcomes.
Whether you run an innovation network, a university commercialization program, a health system transformation initiative or a funded challenge, we can shape the program around your goals.
Hackathons & Hackathon+
Turn a defined challenge into a working prototype in a day, then keep the strongest ideas moving.
Multidisciplinary teams work together to understand the problem, design solutions and build functioning apps using Cogniss. With Hackathon+, selected teams can continue into structured 3, 6 or 12-month development programs to take promising ideas much further.
Examples: Moorfields Eye Hospital brought clinicians, health professionals, designers and developers together to co-create solutions for eye care. The model has also been used with Suffolk & North East Essex, University of Suffolk, University of Essex, Westmead Health Precinct and others.
Innovation cohorts
Move a group of innovators from early ideas and research to valuable products over a defined period.
Cohorts follow a structured development pathway combining training, product support and shared digital infrastructure. Programs can run for several months and can be open-ended or focused around a defined health priority.
Examples: Health Innovation East has supported 40 innovators over four cohorts. This model has since expanded to Health Innovation West Midlands, Imperial College Health Partners and others.
Care pathway redesign
Redesign an end-to-end care pathway and rapidly turn it into working digital services.
Through our Pathway-in-a-day model with Aire Innovate, care teams, communities and digital partners work together to identify where a pathway can work better and rapidly develop the digital experience needed to support it. Cogniss powers the patient-facing experience, while Aire Innovate connects the professional workflows and systems behind it, creating an end-to-end pathway rather than a standalone digital tool.
Examples: At Kent & Medway Neighborhood Health, eight multidisciplinary teams built working prototypes in a single day across challenges including stroke recovery, mental health and service coordination. The winning team received 12 months of continued development support.
Many formats. One proven pathway from idea to real impact.
Whatever the format, Cogniss provides the shared digital infrastructure, product development process and hands-on support needed to move from early ideas to real-world products. From there, products can progress into pilots and evaluation studies, standalone or organizational apps, integration or wider distribution.
Identify problem areas and define program priorities.
Select or bring together the right ideas and experts.
Design user flows and app structure. Gather content.
Rapidly turn the idea into a functioning digital product.
Test and iterate with users. Prepare for real-world use.
Pilot, publish, integrate or pursue wider adoption.
Your next innovation program could be a game changer
Whether you're starting with a health-system priority, a cohort of researchers, a group of frontline clinicians, a service pathway that needs redesigning or an existing program that needs a stronger route from idea to implementation, we can help design a program around your goals, priorities and constraints.