SPEAKERS
Day 1 - Aug 26Dr Dipak Kalra
President, The European Institute for Innovation through Health Data
Professor Dipak Kalra is President of The European Institute for Innovation through Health Data (www.i-hd.eu), a Professor of Health Informatics and a former London general practitioner. He plays a leading international role in Electronic Health Record R&D, including the reuse of EHRs for research. He has led the development of ISO standards on EHR interoperability, personal health records and data protection. He participates in multiple European Commission funded projects including support for the accelerated uptake of digital health innovations, scaling up the quality, interoperability and the reuse of health data for research including inputs to the European Health Data Space, the collection and use of health outcomes towards more value-based care, the development of an AI-powered federated learning platform in lung cancer and initiatives to improve a patient’s understanding of their medication to improve confidence and adherence.
Dr Lars Lindsköld
President of EFMI; Medical Informatician
Dr Lars Lindsköld is a medical informatician and President of the European Federation for Medical Informatics (EFMI), with more than two decades of experience in health system digitalisation in Sweden and Europe. He has led and co‑led major initiatives in radiology, pathology and teledermatology in Västra Götaland Region, including regional imaging registries and the PATOS project for digital pathology. His work focuses on semantic interoperability, health data architectures and AI – making data machine‑readable, portable and meaningful from population‑level evidence down to individual patient journeys. As co‑chair of the Nordic‑Baltic Health Informatics Day, he helps connect perspectives from clinicians, policymakers, innovators and data experts.
Dr Petter Hurlen
Clinical informatics expert; former Head at Akershus UH
Dr Petter Hurlen is a radiologist, clinical informatician and one of the most experienced Nordic voices in healthcare digital transformation. He has served as Head of the Clinical Informatics Unit at Akershus University Hospital, leading the design, implementation and evaluation of electronic health record systems, imaging workflows and decision support. Petter has contributed to European standardisation through CEN TC 251 and is Secretary of the European Federation for Medical Informatics (EFMI). In his keynote he discusses the clinician’s role in digital transformation: how involving professionals in requirements, procurement, implementation and governance is vital to achieving real value, safety and user acceptance.
Nele Labi
Deputy Secretary General for Innovation, Estonian Ministry of Social Affairs
Nele Labi is Deputy Secretary General for Innovation at the Estonian Ministry of Social Affairs, where she leads national efforts in developing e-services, promoting innovation in health and social care, strategic planning, and data-driven policy. She is passionate about proactive government services and integrating healthcare and social services through user-centered and seamless digital solutions. She advocates for innovation that transcends traditional sectoral boundaries. Estonia’s leadership in digital governance provides a powerful platform for these advancements.
Elina Drakvik is Senior Lead at Sitra, the Finnish Innovation Fund, where she leads international cooperation on health data and future wellbeing solutions. She coordinates the TEHDAS2 joint action on secondary use of health data, which supports the practical implementation of the European Health Data Space through common guidelines, governance models and technical approaches. With around 15 years of experience in European health and research collaboration in Finland and Sweden, she brings together policy, practice and innovation to make health data more usable for better care, research and business. Her talk will highlight concrete EHDS insights and open questions relevant for the Baltic Sea region.
Dr Julius Juodakis is the Health Data Lead at the State Date Agency of Lithuania. He has a PhD in Statistics and more than 10 years of experience as a researcher, having worked in various areas of biology and medicine across 5 different countries. For the last few years, he has been leading the health data reuse process in Lithuania; his goal is to make Lithuania a global leader in digital medicine, where data is available quickly and equally to researchers, hospitals and private innovators.
Kristaps Krafte is a Latvian health tech entrepreneur and ecosystem builder. He is a founder of several digital health companies, one of them achieved the first public reimbursement for a digital therapeutic in the Baltics. As Chair of the Digital Health Association Latvia, he contributes to national digital health strategy and co‑organises the Health Data Summit Riga. In his talk “Digital Transformation in Latvian Primary Care: A GP‑Centric Approach to AI Integration”, he will present early experiences of AI‑assisted clinical dashboards in primary care as well as discuss clinical workflows, incentives and ethics.
Dr Jeppe Eriksen
Associate Professor at Aalborg Univ.; President of Danish Society of Digital Health
Dr Jeppe Eriksen is an Associate Professor at Aalborg University and Vice President of the Danish Society of Digital Health. His work examines how citizens perceive, experience and make use of digital health services and technologies such as telemedicine and patient-reported outcomes (PROs). He has contributed to comparative Nordic research on willingness to share health data and on equity in digital healthcare, positioning Denmark as a “critical case” for both the benefits and risks of far‑reaching digitalisation. In his talk, he will present lessons for designing user-centred technologies that promote equity in health.
Professor Johan Magnusson is Professor of Information Systems at the University of Gothenburg and Director of the Swedish Center for Digital Innovation (SCDI). His work focuses on governance, digital transformation and AI in large organisations, especially in the public sector and healthcare. He has led several applied research programmes with public leaders on how to redesign governance to unlock digital capability and innovation.
Professor Dagmar Waltemath
Professor of Medical Informatics and Head of the Data Integration Center at University Medicine Greifswald
Prof. Dagmar Waltemath is a Professor of Medical Informatics and Head of the Data Integration Center at University Medicine Greifswald, Germany. Her research focuses on biomedical data integration, including the development of strategies and tools for research data management, data provenance, and the integration of biomedical data with clinical and health data. Through her work, she contributes to advancing data-driven healthcare and enabling more effective use of biomedical and clinical data for research and innovation.
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