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 Telelääketieteen ja eHealth seura

Session 4A (1st floor) - European legislation and regulation
Chair NN Laureasta

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. What it takes and what to consider in the beginning. A detailed agenda for the workshops is to follow later.

Chair: TBC

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

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

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

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

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 Shrey

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

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.

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

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

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.

Petri Tolonen

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.

Timo Wahlroos

Ulla Harjunmaa

Ilkka Kunnamo

Alpo Värri

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