The programme is aimed at health care professionals, entrepreneurs, researchers, and small and medium enterprises (SMEs) who want to create consumer and patient-facing apps that make a difference for people’s health.
Organised by Health Innovation East and powered by Cogniss, the Digital Health Hub programme began supporting its first two cohorts in 2024, with 17 innovators receiving a six-month package of funded app development, testing and validation.
Expression of interest for the third cohort opened 23 June 2025 to support the rapid development of digital health apps for up to 10 selected innovators. Applications close Friday 15 August 2025.
Cogniss is a platform that makes it faster and easier for healthcare innovators and organisations to build, manage and scale their digital health solutions through its no-code approach. The platform contains 100+ pre-built features as building blocks to enable the creation and iteration of sophisticated patient-facing digital health apps, eliminating the need for developers or technical experts. Beyond development, Cogniss simplifies the compliance, interoperability and distribution of health apps. For health systems, this means a much more efficient procurement pathway for compliant patient-centric solutions.
Participants will build, publish, and test a minimum viable product (MVP) within the Cogniss sandbox environment. After the programme, apps can either remain in the sandbox or be transitioned to standalone web or app store versions.
The team running the programme was highly commended at the HTN Now Awards 2025 in the category of Health Tech Team of the Year.
To find out more about the programme and to apply, visit here
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