Since 2016
Our Story
- 2016Research collaboration begins
- 100+Peer-reviewed publications
- 2025CogStack Ltd launched
CogStack began in 2016 as a research and innovation collaboration between King’s College London, University College London and NHS partners, with early development supported by the NIHR Maudsley Biomedical Research Centre and NIHR UCLH Biomedical Research Centre.
The founding collaboration brought together researchers, clinicians, data scientists and NHS teams from King’s College London, King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust, University College London and University College London Hospitals.
The goal was practical: make it possible to search, interpret and learn from the information already contained within electronic health records, including unstructured clinical text that conventional systems often struggle to use.
Over the following years, CogStack moved from research into real-world NHS environments. It was used for clinical research, patient safety, clinical coding, operational intelligence and population health, and became an open-source technology platform with more than 100 peer-reviewed publications emerging from research programmes around its development and application.
In 2025, CogStack Ltd was formally launched as a spin-out venture from UCL, King’s College London and its NHS partners, taking the technology beyond its founding organisations and towards wider adoption across the NHS and international healthcare systems.
Today, we combine the depth of academic research and clinical expertise with the focus and agility of a technology company — with one purpose: to make healthcare data work harder for patients, clinicians and health systems.
