Leon Young

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Talking HealthTech · 621 - From Innovation to Adoption: Solving the Digital Health Distribution Problem at Scale · 6 Jul 2026 podcast

Yeah, great.

Thanks, Pete.

And wonderful to to be there.

So for for those who don't know me, you know, my background is back in the nineties I founded a company called No Codes, been in the no code space for a long time and in the 2000s started an agency that focused on building behavior change products, which quickly became uh what people would now call digital therapeutics and digital health support products.

saw that the huge barriers to building those products too expensive.

um, too hard to maintain.

So building great products for government that would get switched off after a few years because funding channels had changed and things like that.

So 10 years ago this month, it's actually a bit of a celebration, um, we founded a a new company called Cognus and set off on the mission of creating an infrastructure to make it easy for health experts to build the system.

And we came from a point of view of

um very mission driven.

And our mission was two-sided.

We wanted to see the best health experts create the best digital health products.

And we wanted to see those digital health products get in the hands of anyone who needs them, can benefit from them anywhere in the world.

And 10 years in, we feel like we've done half the job.

So now we have COGNIS being used around the world in in innovation programs, in universities, a lot of innovation programs running in the NHS with the Health Innovation Network, competitions like the uh one that Talking Health Tech is involved in, the Ripple uh Challenge, where at the moment we're supporting 26 teams of innovators-build women's health uh products.

products, um all this great innovation happening.

And great products being built, evidence bases being put in place, lots of successful clinical trials, and yet adoption of these products is uh very limited.

And a lot of great products die on the vine, unfortunately.

And so the the exciting thing for us is that after me whinging about this for a few years and talking about the needs for a digital health publisher, we've decided to take the bull by the horn.

We've started a new company called Ripple Scale.

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