28th #eHealth 2023 International Conference - Human oriented approach in eHealth and digital services

Coffee and savory snack available

Session 1 (1st floor): Sustainable digital services

Chair: President Outi Ahonen, Finnish Society of Telemedicine and eHealth

Session 2A (1st floor): Reform of Healthcare, Social welfare and Rescue Services in Finland - year 2024

Chair Vesa Jormanainen, Finnish Society of Telemedicine and eHealth

Session 2B (3rd floor): Etäpalvelut käytännön työssä

Puheenjohtaja: Aleksi Schrey, Ylilääkäri, YTHS

Session 3A (1st floor): Diversity of AI

Chair: Jarmo Reponen, Professor, University of Oulu

Session 3B (3rd floor): Digitaaliset palvelupolut

Puheenjohtaja: Liisa Klemola, Savonia ammattikorkeakoulu

Session 4A (1st floor) - European legislation and regulation
Chair Anna Salmi, Laurea University of Applied Sciences

Session 4B (3rd floor): Haavoittuvat ryhmät

Chair: Soile Juujärvi, yliopettaja, Laurea

Session 5A (1st floor): Data Security and Protection

Chair: Paresh Rathod, senior lecturer, Laurea UAS

Session 5B (3rd floor): Yhtenäinen terveys (OneHealth)

Chair: Paula Veikkolainen, LL, DI, Oulun Yliopisto

Session 6 (Classrooms at 3rd floor): Workshops

The workshops aim at providing participants deeper knowledge of eHealth and telemedicine product development in testbed environment. This is also opportunity for networking, discussion, and knowledge sharing. 

Note: Language in the workshops is English if there is a non-Finnish speaker in the workshop.

Chair: Workshop facilitators

Workshop agenda

Each workshop will start with a short introduction from the organizers. Each workshop will be hosted and facilitated with two or more experts on the topic and with the help of students from Laurea University of applied sciences.

Workshops will be facilitated by World Café Method which is a structured conversational process for knowledge sharing. Groups of people discuss a topic at small tables like those in a café. Some degree of facilitation and formality may be retained to make sure that everyone gets a chance to speak. Pre-defined questions have been agreed upon beforehand with the hosts, but the outcomes or solutions are not decided in advance.

Timetable for workshops: 

12.00-12.10 Introductions and instructions for the workshop

12.15-12.30 Table 1 discussions

Switch tables

12.35-12.50 Table 2 discussions

12.50-13.00 Summary

Session 7 (1st floor): Future Visions (of Digital Health and Welfare)

Chair: President Outi Ahonen, Finnish Society of Telemedicine and eHealth

Outi Ahonen

PhD, Principal Lecturer, President of the Telemedicine and eHealth, Laurea University of applied sciences

Outi Ahonen, PhD of Health and Human Services Informatics, MHSc, RN works a as principal lecturer in master’s degree Digital unit at Laurea University of Applied Science (UAS). She coordinates the research theme of digitalization and information management in society. Her main research interest is multidisciplinary competences in developing digital services in eHealth and welfare. She has been the project manager in many projects, which developed digital competencies. In addition to teaching, currently she manages two projects: firstly, the EU funded project Master of Managing Digital Transformation in the Health Sector creating the new international master studies related to the digital transformation in the health sector and secondly the UUDO project, creating special education to eHealth and Welfare Services, together with the 14 universities of applied sciences. She is the first female President of Finnish Society of Telemedicine and eHealth (FSTeH). She has been twice the chair of expert the team building the National eHealth Strategy for the Finnish Nursing Association. The strategy guides and supports nurses in digital nursing work.

Ilias Iakovidis

PhD, Adviser, Digital aspect of green transition, European Commission, DG CONNECT

Ilias works on maximising the positive impact of digitalisation on the green transition. He has initiated the European Green Digital Coalition (EGDC) whose members have committed to work on science-based methods to estimate the net environmental impact of digital solutions and on guidelines for green digital transformation in different sectors (energy, transport, construction, agriculture, etc). He manages the European Parliament Pilot project that supports the work of EGDC. Ilias works also on the Digital Product Passport as introduced in the Eco-design for Sustainable Product Regulation and co-manages the EU project CIRPASS. The aim is to accelerate the transition circular economy through digitally enabled sustainable business models (e.g. product as a service).

Before 2017 Ilias has contributed to the EU Agenda of eHealth and ICT for Active and Healthy Ageing for over 20 years. Areas he pioneered include digitally supported Integrated Care, 'Virtual Physiological Human', Personal Health Systems and Electronic Health Records.

Petri Lehto

Senior Lead, Sitra

Petri is an innovation and research policy expert having a wide work experience in the field in various leading positions. Petri has an extensive background from Government policy making having led as a director the Finnish innovation policies for several years at the Ministry of Economy and Employment. After the Ministry, Petri moved to work for a global pharmaceutical company where he led the company’s policy and communications work as a director. As part of that work, he chaired for several years the Finnish Pharmaceutical Industry Association’s committee work on innovation and research and also served as a Member of the Associations’s Board. Currently, Petri works as a Senior Lead at Sitra where his work centers around health data. Petri also works for the University of Helsinki as a Development Director where he is currently collaborating on a project which intends to establish a precision cancer care R&D ecosystem in Finland. Lately, Petri has also worked for FINBB, the Finnish Biobank Cooperative, where his role has been to strengthen the sustainability of Finnish biobanks. By education, Petri is an economist having earned his Ph.D. from University of Turku and his Master’s degree from the Johns Hopkins University in the USA.

Marina Erhola

County Chief Executive, MD, PhD, MQI, Pirkanmaa wellbeing services county

MD, PhD, MQI, specialist on respiratory diseases
A few examples of professional experience:
- Managing Director, Joint Municipality of Public Health Services in the Hämeenlinna Region
- Deputy Director General & Assistant Director General, National Institute for Health and Welfare (THL)
- CEO, Päijät-Häme Joint Authority & County Chief Executive, Päijät-Häme wellbeing services county
- Various positions in the World Health Organisation (WHO)
- International positions in Nicaragua, Kyrgyzstan, South Africa, Libya, El Salvador, Romania, Armenia, Russia, Estonia

Satu Wedenoja

MD, PhD, Senior Medical Officer at the Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare

Satu Wedenoja, MD, PhD, works as a Senior Medical Officer at the Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare. Her field of specialty is obstetrics and gynecology. Wedenoja, together with her team, is responsible for the coordination of rare diseases in Finland. This task involves both national and international projects and collaboration in the field of rare diseases. Major aims of the national coordination team include implementation of ORPHAcodes into electronic patient report systems and specialized care in Finland. Precise coding of rare diseases using ORPHAcodes allows epidemiological analyses and data gathering. The implementation of the ORPHAcodes is therefore a huge leap towards better diagnostics and treatment of rare diseases and a national knowledge base.

Risto Mäkinen

Juha Auvinen

Juha Auvinen, MD, PhD, professor of general practice, University of Oulu

Juha Auvinen, MD, PhD is a professor of general practice in University of Oulu and Wellbeing Services County of North Ostrobothnia. He is responsible for Medical education in the University of Oulu and director of Research Unit of Population Health. His research work is focused on clinical epidemiology, multimorbidity and continuity of care. He has also actively work with national guidelines and recommendations of primary health care models and general practice. He is a chair of the Finnish Association of General Practice and board member of the Nordic Federation of General Practice.

Riitta Luoto

Ylilääkäri, Kela, tutkimusyksikkö

Riitta Luoto työskentelee ylilääkärinä Kelan tutkimusyksikössä, erityisalueenaan terveysperusteisiin etuuksiin ja työterveyshuoltoon liittyvät tutkimus- ja selvityshankkeet. Luoto on koulutukseltaan työterveyshuollon ja terveydenhuollon erikoislääkäri, epidemiologian dosentti ja SoTeMBA. Lisäksi hänellä on terveydenhuollon tietotekniikan ja vakuutuslääketieteen erityispätevyydet. Lisätietoja Kelan tutkimusyksikön tietotarjottimesta: Riitta Luoto | Kelan tietotarjotin

Aleksi Schrey

Digitaalisten palveluiden ylilääkäri, Ylioppilaiden terveydenhoitosäätiö (YTHS)

Aleksi Schrey toimii Ylioppilaiden terveydenhoitosäätiössä (YTHS) digitaalisten palvelujen ylilääkärinä, tietosuojavastaavana ja potilastietojärjestelmän vastaavana lääkärinä. YTHS:ssä hoidetaan yli 60 % opiskelijoiden reilusta puolesta miljoonasta vuosittaisesta käynnistä etäyhteyksiä hyödyntäen.Terveydenhuollon tietotekniikan erityispätevyys 2022. STeHS hallituksen jäsen vuodesta 2022. Digitaalisista palveluista kiinnostunut osana monikanavaista palvelua. Osa asioista voidaan hoitaa etänä myös ensikontaktissa, osa asioista kaipaa hoidon jatkuvuutta vaikuttavuuden parantamiseksi. Digital tools and services provided efficiently with high quality as will be an essential part of multichannel services fulfilling further demands required by the health care sector and legislation. Presentation gives practical hints and tips for remote appointments and is part of the session focusing on quality and continuity of the treatment provided digitally.

Merja Mustonen

Joni Komulainen

Senior Ministerial Advisor, Ministry of Social Affairs and Health, Finland

Joni Komulainen has been a social affairs and healthcare and eHealth lawyer for more than 20 years working for the Department of Social and Healthcare in the city of Helsinki, the Finnish Institute for health and welfare (THL) and since 2018 as a senior ministerial adviser in the Ministry of Social Affairs and Health, Finland. Mr. Komulainen has been involved in EU level eHealth legal law work and Finnish laws including The Act on the secondary use of social and health data, the former and the new revised Act on the processing of social and healthcare data, Covid-related legislations, European health data space regulations, eHMSEG legal work group, CDBIO AI drafting group and the data protection part on the large scale social and healthcare reform.

Mikko Myllymäki

Development Manager, Savonia University of Applied Sciences

Mikko Myllymäki, MSc, currently serves as the Development Manager at Savonia University of Applied Sciences. His career started with over 10 years of intensive care nursing, which informs his work in nursing education. Mikko served as a Senior Lecturer at Savonia for five years before assuming his current role. His specialty is digital pedagogy solutions, with a particular emphasis on the use of virtual reality. As a forward-thinking professional, Mikko regularly shares his visions for the future of healthcare education. His interest in artificial intelligence has led him to explore its potential for higher education, and he has become an active advocate for AI-powered healthcare education.

Jussi Hirvonen

Professor of Radiology, Tampere University, Finland

I currently serve as a Professor of Radiology at Tampere University, Finland, and as a neuroradiologist and head & neck radiologist at Turku University Hospital, Finland. I received my MD and PhD degrees from the University of Turku, Finland, and completed a postdoctoral fellowship on molecular brain imaging at the National Institutes of Health, MD, USA. I have completed European Diplomas in Neuroradiology (EDiNR) and Head and Neck Radiology (EBiHNR). My research interests relate to advanced MRI techniques in head and neck radiology, emergency radiology, artificial intelligence, and neuropsychiatric brain imaging.

Peeter Ross

MD, Ph.D., professor of e-health and the head of eMedLab, Tallinn University of Technology (TalTech), Estonia

Peeter Ross, MD, Ph.D., is a professor of e-health and the head of eMedLab of Tallinn University of Technology (TalTech), Estonia. Dr. Ross has previously been a member of the Supervisory Board of the Estonian E-Health Foundation and Estonian Health Insurance Fund. Peeter has advised on the design and implementation of large-scale e-health projects in more than 20 countries around the world and has been involved in several EU-funded healthcare innovation projects. He has actively participated in designing and implementing the Estonian nationwide Health Information System. His areas of expertise are health care and social care policy implementation, innovation and use of digital applications in the health domain, and the use of e-services in diagnostic and treatment processes in health care.

Jaana Kotila

RN, MNsc, Development Manager at Helsinki University Hospital

Jaana Kotila, RN, MNsc, a Development Manager at Helsinki University Hospital. I am an experienced developer and educator in the area of Nursing, digitalisation, lean management and nurses' professional interventions. I have also taken part in developing advance practice model in Finland. I have published numerous articles in professional journals and several conference's abstracts.  I am currently a Board Member of Finnish Nurses Association.

Leena Soininen

Chief Medical Officer and head of business unit (digital services), DigiFinland Oy

I work as Chief Medical Officer and head of business unit (digital services) in DigiFinland Oy, which develops, maintains and provides national digital services that improve the productivity and effectiveness of healthcare and social welfare services, rescue services and other sectors. Our flagship service is Omaolo, which is an CE-marked electronic service channel for social welfare, health care and oral health care, which supports self-service in personal care and directs the patient to appropriate assistance if necessary. My personal background is in intensive care and in Helsinki University hospital, where I completed my PhD and got my specialist license.

Jari Haverinen

Senior Planning Officer, FinCCHTA

Mr. Jari Haverinen, received his M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering (1999) and M.H.Sc. (2018) degrees from the University of Oulu, Finland. He has 18 years background in the telecoms industry before his career in digital health field. His current job role is Senior Planning Officer in the Finnish Coordinating Center for Health Technology Assessment (FinCCHTA). His main responsibility in FinCCHTA is the Digi-HTA assessment process that has been developed to perform health technology assessments (HTA) for novel digital healthcare technologies such as mobile apps, AI and robotics. He is also a Doctoral researcher at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Oulu, where his research area is the development of new HTA methods for digital health solutions as well as eHealth research.

Pekka Varje

Tutkimuspäällikkö, työterveyslaitos

Pekka Varje, PhD, works as a Research Manager at the Work Ability and Work Careers -department of the Finnish Institute of Occupational Health. In this position he promotes population-level research on occupational health and work ability. His own research area includes topics related to the mental health, and in his research projects he has aimed at developing machine-learning -based approaches to the data-driven analysis of mental health and the occupational health care. Additionally, Varje leads the visualization and open publishing of data and research findings in the Work-Life Knowledge Service. Varje has a background in history and in his doctoral thesis he analyzed the changing role of emotions and personality in Finnish work life during the post World War II -era. FT Pekka Varje työskentelee tutkimuspäällikkönä Työterveyslaitoksella Työkyky ja työurat -salkussa. Tutkimuspäällikön tehtävässä hän edistää työterveyteen ja työkykyyn liittyvää väestötason tutkimusta. Hänen oma tutkimusalueensa keskittyy ennen kaikkea mielenterveyteen ja johtamissaan hankkeissa hän on pyrkinyt valjastamaan koneoppimisen menetelmät työväestön mielenterveyden sekä työterveyshuollon toiminnan aineistolähtöiseen tutkimukseen. Lisäksi Varje johtaa työelämään liittyvän tiedon visualisointia ja avointa julkaisua Työelämätieto-palvelussa. Varje on väitellyt Suomen ja Pohjoismaiden historiasta vuonna 2018 ja hänen väitöskirjansa liittyi työntekijöiden tunteiden ja persoonan muuttuvaan roolin suomalaisessa työelämässä.

Markus Kalliola

Project director, The Finnish innovation fund Sitra, Finland

Markus Kalliola is the project director in Health data 2030 project in The Finnish Innovation Fund Sitra and the coordinator of Joint Action Towards The European Health Data Space (TEHDAS). Prior to Sitra he worked in the European Commission in DG Health and food safety where he was responsible of the cross-border healthcare IT projects. Mr. Kalliola has vast experience in data economy and in the next years he will work towards healthier and fairer data economy for Europe as well as towards more competitive health data ecosystem in Finland. Mr. Kalliola holds a positions of trust in · HMA-EMA joint big data steering group, · HMA-EMA Darwin EU advisory board · DNV Digital health advisory board · EDAH advisory board · HealthHub Finland EDIH advisory board · Steering group for the secondary use of health data in Finland

Arho Virkki

Chief Analytics Officer, Wellbeing services county of Southwest Finland

Arho Virkki, PhD, MSc(Tech) works as Chief Analytics Officer at the Wellbeing services county of Southwest Finland. He is also an Adjunct Professor at Department of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Turku. His research interests include statistical disclosure control, data mining and mathematical modeling for decision support. At Auria Clinical Informatics, his key goals include providing researchers and specialists with high-quality patient data in pseudonymized or anonymized format to facilitate the development of data-driven approaches for precision medicine.

Kimmo Porkka

M.D, Ph.D., University of Helsinki

Kimmo Porkka M.D, Ph.D. is a professor of clinical hematology at the University of Helsinki and his current clinical position is Head of the Department of Hematology at the Helsinki University Hospital Comprehensive Cancer Center in Finland.

Dr. Porkka received his medical degrees at the Universities of Turku and Helsinki in Finland. He has received clinical training in oncology, internal medicine and hematology.

Dr. Porkka's research experience includes clinical epidemiology, clinical cancer research, human molecular genetics (genetic mapping of complex diseases), basic and applied cancer research on characterization of leukemia-specific proteins and ligands (post-doctoral visit at the Burnham Institute, La Jolla, USA).

Dr. Porkka's current research interests relate to molecularly targeted therapies and immunotherapy of hematological malignancies. He has been the principal investigator in >40 Phase I-III clinical drug trials (academic and company-sponsored) on acute and chronic leukemias and performed closely linked translational science projects focusing on predictive biomarker discovery. He focuses on individualized therapy of relapsed acute leukemia and particularly interested in applying novel computational tools for integration and harmonization of deep disease profiling and clinical datasets residing in hospital datalakes for machine-assisted diagnostics, treatment selection and clinical trial matching.

Dr. Porkka is the founding principal investigator in the Finnish Hematology Registry and Biobank (FHRB; fhrb.fi) 2008-2022, which is a national, population-based registry and biobanking effort. He is the past chairman of the Finnish Hematology Association.

Dr. Porkka is an active member of the European Hematology Association (EHA), served in the EHA Board and Executive Board 2015-2022. He was the chair of the scientific program committee for the EHA annual meeting in 2020.

Prof. Porkka has more than 150 original publications in international peer reviewed journals, such as New England Journal of Medicine, Nature, Nature Medicine, Nature Genetics, Cancer Discovery, PNAS, Journal of Clinical Oncology, Blood, and Leukemia

Maiju Kyytsönen

sh, TtM, väitöskirjatutkija, THL, Digitaalisen sosiaali- ja terveydenhuollon seuranta, Palvelujärjestelmän tutkimus -tiimi, Hyvinvointivaltion tutkimus ja uudistaminen -yksikkö

Monitoring digital social welfare and health care from the perspectives of the population as well the professionals and service system is her work at Finnish institute for health and welfare. Acts as a doctoral researcher at University of Eastern Finland focussing on the information security skills and privacy concerns of the population and how they are associated with digital social welfare and health care service use.

Piia Silvennoinen

Dosentti, YTT, Yliopettaja, Laurea-ammattikorkeakoulu

Piia Silvennoinen, dosentti, YTT työskentelee yliopettajana Laurea-ammattikorkeakoulussa. Hän toimii vastuuopettaja Johtaminen ja kehittäminen sosiaali- ja terveysalan muutoksessa YAMK-koulutuksessa. Tällä hetkellä Piia toimii myös tutkijana ja kehittäjänä kahdessa digitalisaatioon liittyvässä hankkeessa: Digionnea Kaikille -hankkeessa (2021-2023, rahoittaja Euroopan Sosiaalirahasto) ja DigiIN-hankkeessa (2019-2025, rahoittaja Suomen Akatemian Strateginen tutkimusneuvosto). Piia on tutkinut sote-ammattilaisten osaamista ja haavoittuvassa asemassa olevien asiakkaiden digitaalista toimijuutta. Häntä kiinnostaa digisyrjäytymisen ehkäisy yksilöllisellä ja yhteiskunnallisella tasolla.

Birgitta Tetri

R&D Specialist, M.HSc, Laurea University of applied sciences

Birgitta Tetri is a R&D specialist at Laurea University of Applied Sciences. She is currently working in projects related to digital competencies among vulnerable groups. Her background is in health care and before joining Laurea UAS she worked as nurse manager in Helsinki University Hospital at medical ward.

Ville Mustola

YTM, väitöskirjatutkija, Jyväskylän yliopisto

YTM Ville Mustola työskentelee väitöskirjatutkijana Suomen Akatemian rahoittamassa Ikääntymisen ja hoivan tutkimuksen huippuyksikössä (CoE AgeCare) Jyväskylän yliopistossa. Hänen väitöskirjansa käsittelee videopuheluiden käyttöä ikääntyneiden hoivassa hoivatyöntekijöiden näkökulmasta. Hänellä on maisterin tutkinto yhteiskuntapolitiikan oppiaineesta sekä laaja työkokemus sairaanhoitajana eri sosiaali- ja terveydenhoitoalojen sektoreilta.

MSc Ville Mustola works as a doctoral researcher in the Centre of Excellence of Age and Care, funded by the Academy of Finland, at the University of Jyväskylä. His PhD research focuses on the use of videoconferencing in care of older people from care workers’ perspective. He has master’s degree from Social and Public Policy and a wide variety of work experience as a nurse from different fields of social services and healthcare.

Petri Tolonen

Cyber Security Specialist, M.HSc, KPMG Oy

Petri Tolonen, has had a long career in information technology, information systems and information security. In the early stages of his career, he worked as an application developer and database specialist. Later, he moved to project management positions, responsible for larger ICT projects. Petri has worked in the healthcare industry for 15 years, with interests in healthcare information security, function-specific criticality classification, eHealth and digital services. Petri works at KPMG Oy, responsible for healthcare cybersecurity services. Petri has a master's degree in health sciences.

Jyri Rajamäki

Principal Lecturer in Information Technology, Laurea University of applied sciences

Jyri Rajamäki is a Principal Lecturer in Information Technology at Laurea University of Applied Sciences and Adjunct Professor of Critical Infrastructure Protection and Cyber Security at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland. He holds D.Sc. degrees in electrical and communications engineering from the Helsinki University of Technology, and a PhD in mathematical information technology from the University of Jyväskylä. His current research interests are resilient cyber-physical systems and overall governance (generation, transmission, storage, processing, sharing, collective use, deletion) of safety-critical and/or classified information. Dr Rajamäki has authored more than 220 scientific publications.

Eva Kaisti

Veterinarian, Founder and CEO, vetsy® and Veteva Oy

Eläinlääkäri Eva Kaistilla on ainoana eläinlääkärinä maailmassa Terveydenhuollon Tietotekniikan Erityispätevyys. Lisäksi hän on suorittanut tarkastuseläinlääkärin sekä elintarvikehygieenikon erityispätevyydet.

Evan ura terveydenhuollon tietotekniikan saralla alkoi, kun hän 2018 luotasi projektipällikkönä Petmeddata-järjestelmän, lohkoketjupohjaisen ""Eläinten OmaKanta-järjestelmän"". Eva on perehtynyt eläinterveydenhuollon digitalisaatioon sekä etäeläinlääketieteeseen ja luennoinut aiheesta mm. Madridin eläinlääkäripäivillä 2019, Suomen eHealth konferenssissa 2021 sekä Suomen eläinlääkäripäivillä 2022. Evalla oli tieteellinen posteri 2022 eHealth konferenssissa aiheesta eläinlääkemääräykset etäklinikoilta.
Eva yritys Veteva Oy on jo 4,5 vuoden ajan tuottanut etäeläinlääkintäpalveluja ja sovelluskehittämistä. Edelleen Eva toimii ajoittain itsekin etäeläinlääkärinä ja omistaa Helsingissä oman pieneläinklinikan Vetsy, jossa tekee pieneläinpraktiikkaa.

Ulla Harjunmaa

Chief dentist, Finnish National Institute for Health and Welfare (THL)

Ulla Harjunmaa works currently as Chief dentist at Finnish National Institute for Health and Welfare. She is a dentist specialized in dental public health. She also holds PhD and MSc in health sciences (International Health). She has extensive experience in oral health research, public health development, University education and clinical dentistry in Finland and in several African and Asian countries. In her current position at Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare, se is leading the expert teams that are developing the oral healthcare information structures and the national quality register for oral diseases treatment, that utilizes register data. She is also actively involved in national surveys and other research projects concerning oral health and diseases and oral health care systems

Ilkka Kunnamo

Alpo Värri

Tutkimusjohtaja/Research Director, Tampereen yliopisto/University of Tampere

Dr.Tech., Adjunct professor Alpo Värri is a research director in the Faculty of Medicine and Health Technology in Tampere University, Finland. His research and teaching have been related to pattern recognition applied to physiological signals. He has been involved in nationally and European Union funded projects in this domain since the end of the 1980’ies. He joined the technical committee TC251 Health Informatics of the European Committee of Standardisation in 1994. Later, he has participated health informatics standardisation in ISO/TC215, and IEEE 11073, too. He has also participated artificial intelligence standardisation in JTC1/SC42 and CEN&CENELEC/JTC21 having sometimes been the head of the Finnish delegation in some of these committees. His experience in standardisation has brought him educational tasks in the areas of health informatics standardisation and regulations in Tampere University.

Sandra Liede

Terveysteknologia ry

Sandra Liede is a Finnish lawyer with wide-ranging expertise and professional experience in delivering innovation-oriented and responsible solutions for the health industry, including medical devices, diagnostics and digital health.

Special expertise in public policy and regulatory issues of healthcare, medical devices (incl. software and artificial intelligence), health technology, genomics, biobanking, health data processing and governance.

Experienced in legislating and supervising biobanking and genomics as well as partnering with national & EU institutions and stakeholder groups. Responsible for representing & communicating industry positions and ensuring successful strategies & tactics to regulatory approaches.

Annika Takala HUS, laitteiden käyttäjänäkökulma

MD, PhD, Associate professor, Senior Medical Officer, Medical Devices, Helsinki University Hospital

Pascal Beauchesne

Lead coordinator of the Wellbeing and Aging-in place E-Health innovation ecosystem of Québec – Numana

With a strong cross-sectoral network built by having held, over 20 years, several professional roles in the public-private sectors and innovation ecosystems, Pascal supports the key sectors of our economy as well as the research and territories in the important transitions of our era. Collectively working as an ecosystem we ensure the identification of structuring projects where industries, organizations and research are able to work hand in hand, to co-build bridges between the most unlikely sectors to be able to learn, collaborate, truly innovate. More concretely, Pascal's role is to ensure the culture of learning, impact and transformation within our social innovation & technology ecosystems in Quebec to help address the challenges in the framework of society & territorial health.

Virtually participating: Dr Manon Truchon

(Ph.D. in psychology), professor at the School of Psychology at Laval University, Quebec

She is a regular researcher at the Interdisciplinary Center for Research
in Rehabilitation and Social Integration (CIRRIS) of the Institute for
Rehabilitation in Physical Impairment of Quebec (IRDPQ). She is also a
member of the Institute of Applied Ethics (IDÉA) at Laval University and
of the Provincial Network for Research in Adaptation-Rehabilitation
(REPAR). Her teaching activities and research are in the field of occupational health psychology. Her research focuses on chronic disability prevention; stress, tools development, health and well-being at work; as well as psychosocial risk and protective factors at work.

Virtually participating: Dr. Mahée Gilbert-Ouimet

(Ph.D. in epidemiology), associate professor in population health, Department of Health Sciences, Université du Québec à Rimouski

She holds the Canada Research Chair in Sex and Gender in Occupational
Health. She is also a regular researcher at the CHU de Québec-Université Laval Research Center and an adjoint scientist at the Institute for Work & Health in Toronto. Her research mainly focuses on the effects of psychosocial risks at work on the incidence of chronic health conditions, and on intervention studies aimed at reducing psychosocial risks at work. She also develops methods and recommendations that improve sex and gender considerations in health research

Laura Tahvanainen

RDI specialist at Laurea UAS, Wellbeign to Healthcare project

Laura is currently working as an RDI specialist at Laurea University of Applied Sciences, Wellbeing to Healthcare - ESF-project. Main responsibility has been the development of the empowering chatbot during this project. Project manager for eHealth2023 Conference at Laurea UAS. Doctoral candidate in University of Lapland Faculty of Art and Design from 2023. Educational background is in the Service Business Management (MScHealthcare), Service design, lean coach and Dental hygienist (BDcHealthcare). Previous work experience from dental healthcare nursing manager position.

Katariina Rouvinen

Health Proof Helsinki

Katariina Rouvinen is an experienced Development Manager with a long career at HUS Helsinki University Hospital. She has a degree in Master of Business Administration. Currently Katariina is working with company collaboration and co-creation. In the CleverHealth Network innovation ecosystem, Katariina promotes the development and commercialization of new ideas and needs from HUS clinicians to international markets. In Health Proof Helsinki, she coordinates testbed services in HUS.

Riikka Paasikivi

Senior Consultant in Spinverse Oy

Riikka Paasikivi is a Senior Consultant in Spinverse Oy with a long expertise in building and managing European innovation projects in the area of health and bioindustries. Riikka has worked with EU funding for over 30 years, and her aim is to creating innovations within public-private partnerships, building new ecosystems and facilitating business development. She works with the network of national Health testbeds, facilitating their collaboration and international activities.

Teemu Santonen

Principal lecturer, Laurea UAS

Teemu Santonen, DSc (Econ.), is acting as a principal lecturer in the field of "Knowledge Intensive Business Services (KIBS)" at the Laurea University of Applied Sciences in Finland. Prior to his academic career, Santonen worked for over a decade as a consultant and development manager in leading Finnish organizations in the financial, media, and ICT sectors. He is a scientific panel member of the International Society for Professional Innovation Management, a council member of the European Network of Living Labs, and a former board member of the Finnish Strategic Management Society. The Finnish Inventor Support Association has honored Santonen's novel crowdsourcing-based open innovation platform as the best school-related innovation in Finland. He is a patentee and has co-founded the first neuromarketing research company in Finland. As of today, he has published over 80 scientific papers. His research interests focus on various aspects related to "Innovation Management" and "Living Labs.

Evdokimos I. Konstantinidis

MSc, PhD Medical Informatics Electronics Engineering, European Living Lab Network

Mervi Vähätalo

(D.Sc. Econ. & Bus. Adm., MNsc., RN) Senior lecturer, Satakunta University of applied sciences

Vähätalo has ca 10 years’ clinical experience from healthcare and 13 years from studying and teaching health and social services. Her research topics focus on organization of health and social services and welfare technology. She works as a coordinator of Satakunta Testbed in has conducted numerous R&D projects and tests with welfare technology companies.

Niina Holappa

Prizztech, Satakunta testbed

Niina Holappa works as a Project Manager in Prizztech Ltd which is a regional business development company in Pori, Satakunta. Niina has been working in Living Lab and Testbed projects over ten years and most recently in the Satakunta Tesbed project. The focus of the projects has been on user-driven health and welfare technology product development. Niina is currently developing The Health and Welfare Technology Directory Wenla which offers information of digital and technological solutions targeted to consumers as well as social and health care professionals. She has master’s degree in Welfare Technology.

A - Exhibitor Package Basic 

1. Exhibitor area - space 4m2  
2. Electricity  
3. Wifi - by Laurea  
4. Company name and contact details in conference publication  
5. Includes 5–8 min presentation of company innovation, solution or concept in one theme session (Note: limited amount, fill in order) 
6. Includes a logo on the conference website  
7. Includes posters and roll-ups (max 2 pieces in exhibition area), registration fee for 1 person and conference dinner.

Price: 950€ (+ 24% VAT) 

B - Exhibitor Package Mini 

1. Exhibitor area - space 2 m2 
2. Electricity
3. Wifi - by Laurea 
4. Company name and contact details in conference publication 
5. Includes 5–8 min presentation of company innovation, solution or concept in one theme session (Note: limited amount, fill in order) 
6. Includes a logo on the conference website 
7. Includes posters and roll-ups (max 2 pieces in exhibition area), registration fee for 1 person and conference dinner.

Price: 750€ (+24% VAT)  

C - Exhibitor package Startup 

Is your company less than 5 years old and has novel solutions within Digital Health? This is our special offer for you: We are particularly keen on engaging startup companies for presenting their concepts, cases and solutions in direct connection to conference topics. Presentation of 5 minutes is included in the startup package. (Limited availability. We prioritize the presentations of the Basic and Startup packages, followed by the presentations of the Mini packages in the order of reservation.) 

1. Contents like in Mini Package – Note! Limited number of Startup packages available. 

2. Bonus: Telemedicine and e-Health Society of Finland Membership for 2023 is included in this package! 

Price: 550€ (+ 24% VAT)   

Prices do not include tax. Registration is binding. The cancellations made before 8.9.2023 the refund is 50%, after 8.9.2023 no refund. 

Disclaimer: The organizers reserve the right to change the format of the conference without prior notice if required by the COVID19 pandemic restrictions or some other force majeure reason. In this case, entry fees will not be refunded, but the best possible replacement program format will be offered to entrants.

• Early Bird until 11.6.2023: 420 € + VAT 24 % 
• Early Bird for FTeHS members until 11.6.2023: 390 € + VAT 24% 
• Regular 12.6-8.9.2023: 520 € + VAT 24% 
• Regular for FTeHS members 12.6.-8.9.2023: 490 € + VAT 24% 
• Student (proof required): 85 € + VAT 24 % [dinner not included]

Prices do not include tax. Registration is binding. The cancellations made before 8.9.2023 the refund is 50%, after 8.9.2023 no refund. 

Disclaimer: The organizers reserve the right to change the format of the conference without prior notice if required by the COVID19 pandemic restrictions or some other force majeure reason. In this case, entry fees will not be refunded, but the best possible replacement program format will be offered to entrants.

The conference event has an accommodation quota of 50 rooms at Sokos Hotel Vantaa for 12.-13.10.2023. The hotel is located within walking distance of the Tikkurila campus, opposite the train station.

Sokos Hotels Sales Service Phone: +358 300 870 000 / individual room reservations Email: sokos.hotels@sok.fi 

Booking code: BEHEALTH2023 

Standard single room 122 euros / room / night 
Standard double room 142 euros / room / night 

The room rate includes breakfast, wireless internet connection (Wi-Fi) and VAT. We reserve the right to change the price. 

The rooms are available after 15:00 on the day of arrival and check out is before 12:00 on the day of departure. The last booking date for the accommodation quota is 14 September 2023. Room reservations made from the quota must be secured with a credit card. We primarily recommend participants to make a reservation by phone or online, for data protection reasons, credit card information may not be sent by email. The rooms can be booked with a quota ID, subject to availability, only for the time specified in the confirmation, each person staying is responsible for their own expenses