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Cognome: A Mission-Driven Organization

At Cognome, we operate as a mission-driven organization

Our purpose is clear: to improve quality of care by giving rise to a network of interconnected, interoperable Learning Health Systems (LHS). This mission shapes everything we do, from the technologies we build to the way we collaborate with healthcare institutions, researchers, and policymakers.

Cognome's Mission Statement

"Deliver a unified platform for providers of healthcare that drives continuous healthcare improvement by integrating data, models, and governance across networks of Learning Health Systems".

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Read a letter from our CEO

What It Means to Be Mission-Driven

Being mission-driven is more than just a statement—it’s a commitment that reflects in our products, partnerships, and culture. It means that:

  • We prioritize transforming healthcare by helping hospitals and research institutions become interconnected, share insights, and improve patient outcomes collectively.
  • We develop and support privacy-preserving, federated research and analytics that allow institutions to learn together without compromising data security or regulatory compliance.
  • We create regulatory-grade governance, provenance tracking, and interoperability solutions to enable hospitals to do good independently and collaboratively.
  • We believe in open-source principles, AI-driven insights, and data-sharing ecosystems as the methods to achieve our mission.
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Why Being Mission-Driven Matters

Claiming to be a mission-driven organization is easy; operating as one is much more challenging.

Unlike traditional for-profit models that focus on and prioritize revenue, Cognome aligns its business success with its core mission. We pursue this by injecting mission alignment in all strategic and tactical decision-making across the company.

This means:

  • We innovate with a clear focus on healthcare transformation, not just short-term financial gains.
  • Every product we create serves the larger goal of enabling learning health systems to thrive.
  • We invest in privacy-preserving and ethical AI technologies to ensure responsible healthcare advancements.

Cognome's Mission-Driven Goals

Improving healthcare requires overcoming barriers that prevent healthcare delivery systems from adopting and experiencing the transformative impact of technology. At Cognome we have developed a framework for evidence generation, proprietary technology solutions, and a market strategy to address these problems and to validate the corresponding assumptions.

We believe that the industry-wide adoption of Cognome technologies, will create a new market in healthcare analytics, that will transform healthcare and improve outcomes for everyone.

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Inverting the
spending model

Healthcare lags all sectors of the economy in adoption of advanced information and digital technologies. This is partly because most healthcare systems run out of budget and resources building low-value and expensive data management infrastructure focused on reporting and regulatory compliance.

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Integrating fragmented
and siloed technology:

While our understanding of healthcare and wellness is defined within a continuum of inter-related clinical, behavioral (socio-economic and cultural), environmental, and genetic factors, the healthcare system is extremely compartmentalized and broken into very many silos of narrowly focused interventions.

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Precision Medicine is not enough. We need a Personalized Experience:

While healthcare systems are struggling to adopt the most basic levels of data-driven and evidence based medicine, entrepreneurs and technology providers such as google, Amazon, Apple, Microsoft, and Intel have combined forces to push the envelope by conceptualizing and promoting a model.

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Accelerating advanced analytics by protecting private health information:

While we advocate for large scale and enterprise adoption of advanced analytics, the complex, computationally-intensive, and data-hungry nature of AI/DL/ML algorithms limit many to effectively apply and use these technologies. Not all health systems have enough data to solve data driven problems.

The Birth of the Name "Cognome"

What's in a name?:

  • Connectome:

    map of the neural network of your brain

  • Phenome:

    all the observational characteristics that make you - such as skin color, eye color, shoe size and/or cholesterol level.

  • Microbiome:

    the organisms that coexist within you such as as bacteria, fungi and viruses that help protect you from pathogens, digest food and produce energy.

  • Genome:

    the genetic materials that define you

  • Cognition:

    the way that you think, pay attention, speak, learn, remember and perceive.

Cognome:
Everything that characterizes you as a unique individual

 

Bringing Cognome's Mission to the Forefront

We recognize that while our technology and solutions are well-known in research and healthcare communities, our mission has not always been as clearly communicated. Moving forward, we will:

  • Feature our mission prominently on our website and in all communications.
  • Create thought leadership content, including podcasts and videos, to articulate how our mission translates into real-world impact.
  • Engage in active discussions with our partners, clients, and the broader healthcare community about what it means to be a mission-driven organization.

The Future of Cognome

Cognome is here to enable, build, and maintain Learning Health Systems at scale. By staying true to our mission, we ensure that hospitals, research institutions, and healthcare organizations can continuously learn, improve, and provide better patient outcomes.

This is not just a vision—it is our commitment. And it is front and center in everything we do.