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Introduction

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Welcome to the CogStack Documentation site.

What is CogStack?

CogStack lets you unlock the power of healthcare data.

CogStack is a healthcare suite with interchangeable modules for analysing clinical data using AI to draw insights from text in or documents in an Electronic Health Records.

There are a wide range of features including Generative AI, Natural Language Processing, Full Search, Alerting, Cohort Selection, Population Health Dashboards, Deep Phenotyping and Clinical Research.

CogStack is a commercial open-source product, with the code for the community edition available on GitHub: https://github.com/CogStack/. For enterprise deployments, full platform setup, and advanced features, please contact us.

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CogStack is comprised of a suite of applications, all using a common AI and data engineering platform. It is designed to be a self hosted platform where you run your own instances and keep all of your data on premise, with full support for air gapped environments.

The applications provide features for:

  • Clinical Coding
  • Search and Audit of EHRs
  • Cohorting
  • EHR Analytics
  • DeIdentification of patient records
  • Clinical Decision Support (CDS)

Architecture

CogStack Architecture

To understand the flow of CogStack, and the tools it offers, the below section will provide a brief overview:

Components of CogStack

CogStack NiFi

It all begins with Data Engineering, pulling in data from all sources, and creating a data lake for all subsequent resources to use.

Apache NiFi provides fully configurable and scalable data flows with built-in monitoring, data provenance and security features.

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NLP

Performing Named Entity Recognition and Linking (NER+L), extracting contextual attributes like temporality and subject, and extracting relations between entities is all part of the NLP toolkit.

MedCAT for NER+L, MetaCAT for contextual attribute extraction and RelCAT for relation extraction.

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Deployment

To run CogStack and its tools, the deployment guide helps with running, scaling, observing, dashboarding and alerting.

Helm, Docker Compose and cloud options are all covered in the tutorial.

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Tip

Many of these apps and tools are open source and available on GitHub (subject to the licensing in each project), in the CogStack GitHub.

The public documentation on this page covers these open source community offerings.

For advanced use cases and enterprise features see our range of products.

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