Apps you can build with no code on Cogniss
Explore types and examples of health and behavior change applications built with the no-code platform.
Have a problem that you want to solve with a digital solution?
Perhaps you already know what you want, but you’re unsure if it can be built on Cogniss.
You’ve come to the right place.
In this article, we explore the different types of apps you can create on our no-code platform, along with examples of real applications that app creators with no coding and design background have created. These app creators are experts in their respective fields, such as human research, health, and education. Their work (as seen below) shows how simple and effective it is to create an app on Cogniss:
1. Digital therapeutics
Digital therapeutics are technology solutions used to prevent, manage, or treat various health conditions. They are powerful tools that can be used to take the pressure off already-burdened healthcare systems and improve the effectiveness of healthcare delivery. With intelligent data-driven care management and clinical decision support, clinicians can have additional capacity to attend to a higher number of patients more effectively. Some examples of digital therapeutics include Ecological Momentary Assessment (EMA) apps and Patient-Direct KT Intervention apps.
a) Ecological Momentary Assessment (EMA) apps
EMA is a research method that involves repeated assessment of participants’ experiences at a time and place in which they happen, i.e., in their natural environment. It is useful for researchers specializing in addiction, as substance abuse is sporadic and dependent on a person’s mood and environment.
In early 2022, psychology researchers specializing in addiction and problem gambling from Deakin University and the University of Auckland created mobile EMAs (or mEMAs) on Cogniss to support users who want to change their relationship with gambling. Based on the app users’ assessment responses, they would receive an intervention that is adapted to suit their needs at that time. This is also known as just-in-time adaptive interventions (JITAIs).
Learn more about these apps built using no code below:
Gambling Habit Hacker
GamblingLess: In-The-Moment
b) Patient-Direct KT Intervention apps
These types of knowledge translation (KT) interventions focus on directly helping patients to enhance their health literacy, self-care, safety, and health outcomes. They are beneficial to both healthcare providers and patients as it reduces the gap between patient knowledge and care management.
Researchers from The University of Newcastle created a patient-direct KT intervention app (or self-care intervention app) to train medical students to develop psychological resilience. Using Cogniss, they incorporated Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) — a treatment method for mental and physical conditions — into their app.
Learn more about the app here.
2. Digital companions
Digital companions are technology solutions used to measure and track the effects of medication, treatment, or therapy on a patient’s health. They can come in the form of apps or other technology solutions that accompany medication and wearable health monitoring devices — ECG monitors, blood pressure monitors, biosensors, etc. Digital companions enable pharmaceutical companies and clinicians to collect real-world data and provide personalized patient experiences.
Global natural health company, Soho Flordis International (SFI), created a digital companion called Brain Age to help strengthen the cognitive skills of patients with Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI). Built on Cogniss, the app allows patients to track the supplement’s efficacy over time and engage in personalized activities based on their needs.
Learn more about Brain Age here.
3. Remote patient monitoring (RPM) apps
RPM apps are used by clinicians and pharmaceutical companies to view real-time condition-related and/or physiological data of a patient from a different location. This could be blood pressure, temperature, heart rate, blood glucose levels, and more. In addition to this, RPM apps can be used to collect a patient’s experience and outcome measures:
Patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) - to determine a patient's viewpoint of how their condition or care is affecting their well-being. This could include their functional status, quality of life, symptom burden, and condition-related behaviors like anxiety or depression.
Patient-reported experience measures (PREMs) - to get feedback from a patient about their experience with health-related services.
SFI (also mentioned in point no. 2) created a PROM app called Ther-biotic Complete to monitor the impact of their medicinal supplement on patients with Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) over time. Using Cogniss, they could close the loop between patients, clinicians, and themselves. Clinicians can set patient targets and follow up with them based on their reported supplement outcomes. SFI, on the other hand, can get a real-time view of their product’s efficacy and make important product decisions.
Learn more about the app here.
4. Digital diagnostics and assessment tools
Digital diagnostics are technology solutions that allow healthcare professionals to detect various health conditions. The beauty of these tools is that they provide a comprehensive view of patient data, making it easier for healthcare professionals to make clinical decisions.
Assessment tools are used to collect patient data. This can include subjective and objective data, family history, surgical history, medical history, and medication history. Health assessment tools can typically integrate with digital diagnostics.
Australian medical research institute, Black Dog Institute, created an app comprising both diagnostic and assessment functions. The Cogniss-powered app was created for healthcare workers who were at high risk of burnout during the peak of the Covid-19 pandemic. The app comprises evidence-based mental health assessments and screening surveys, which report results back to the users based on a scoring logic that is fed into the system.
Learn more about the app here.
5. Data collection apps
As the name suggests, these apps primarily gather data to address a problem. Researchers commonly use data collection apps to find answers to research questions, test their hypotheses, and evaluate outcomes.
Surveys are a common data collection method used in longitudinal studies, a type of study where data collection is conducted repeatedly throughout the study over weeks, months, or years. Often, these surveys are unengaging and result in user dropouts, which can be expensive for a research team. Conducting a longitudinal study by using gamified surveys is a powerful way of not only keeping users interested but also gathering high-quality data.
The research team at the University of Sydney’s Brain and Mind Centre did exactly this for their research app, Right care, first time, where you live. The app’s goal is to understand how young people navigate the mental healthcare system in Australia. Using Cogniss, the team created an interactive data collection app with hypothetical scenarios and gamified survey questions. This allowed them to collect data at different points of a user’s journey in an engaging way.
Learn more about the app here.
6. Interactive story apps
Stories are a wonderful way to connect with users. While traditional stories are purely meant for consumption, interactive stories encourage action and participation from users. Interactive story apps can be used in the field of education, health, and human research to drive behavior change. An interesting example is incorporating social stories into an interactive story app to explain social situations to autistic children in an engaging way.
A theatre company in New South Wales has done something similar but for a different purpose and audience. They created Zombie Thoughts, a Cogniss-powered app, to increase children’s engagement with actual stage plays. The story that is interwoven into the app also helps children to develop resilience and reduce anxiety. In fact, it is the interactive aspect of the app that allowed the company to demonstrate to children the impact of their choices.
Learn more about the app here.
7. Educational apps for students
These apps provide an interactive and gamified learning experience and can complement classroom teaching. Educators can use such apps for applied learning — the application of knowledge and skills to solve real-world problems — and adaptive learning — learning programs personalized to the student. Keeping learners, especially the young ones, interested in a task at hand is possible with some element of interactivity and games.
A non-profit organization, Buk bilong Pikinini (BbP), created such an app for primary school kids in Papua New Guinea. Using neurologically-effective learning games, an advanced rewards system, and great visuals, the app is able to keep students engaged while developing their English language skills.
Learn more about BbP here.
8. Employee training apps
Employee or corporate training apps are learning and development (L&D) programs conducted in a digital format. Encouraging employees to change their behavior — learn a new skill and practice new habits, for instance — on top of the work they are paid to do, can be challenging. However, if executed correctly, behavior change is possible.
Take the example of Veolia, global water, waste, and energy management company. They created a gamified waste management app that is able to successfully train time-poor retail staff to recycle effectively. Using Cogniss, they created simple and quick game-based repeatable education, inter-store campaigns and challenges, and reward-based interactions. As a result, knowledge of correct waste disposal practices rose from 25.5% to 96.5%.
Learn more about the app here.
In summary
There are unlimited possibilities with Cogniss. Our platform is built such that you don’t have to worry about technical elements like UI/UX design and coding. In fact, our platform has applied validated neuropsychological techniques, best practice user experience design, and artificial intelligence algorithms into an intuitive environment, which removes the complexity of creating a sophisticated and customized app.
All you really need are an app idea and the willingness to learn, iterate, and test.
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