Digital Health in Finland
18 Nov 2021, 12:00 CET
webinar

Finnish Digital Health

Finland has pioneered the use of HTA for Digital Health and developed a dedicated process named Digi-HTA for such solutions. The Digi-HTA process supports assessments activities for all kind of novel Digital Health solutions such as mobile apps, artificial intelligence and robotics. More information is available here: www.digi-hta.fi

They have currently completed 5 evaluations and have 10 more in the pipeline.

In this webinar the following topics will be covered:

  • What role does the evaluation have in the introduction of digital solutions in Finland?
  • Overview of the process
  • Experience from the first evaluations

Speaker

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). He’s main responsibility in FinCCHTA is the development and implementation of the new Digi-HTA assessment method. Digi-HTA has been developed to perform health technology assessments (HTA) for novel digital healthcare technologies such as mobile apps, AI and robotics in Finland. He also works as a Doctoral researcher at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Oulu. His research area is the development of new HTA methods for digital health solutions as well as eHealth research.