AI & digital health technologies
AI and digital tools for health and social care: natural-language processing of clinical text, ambient voice technologies, multimodal AI and clinical decision support at the point of care.
Research & expertise
From the clinical note to usable knowledge.
My work sits at the meeting point of health sciences, information science and management, with health and social care professionals at the centre. The through-line: information recorded in the system should become knowledge that improves care, work and decisions, and ultimately patient, staff and organisational outcomes.
Health services & operations
How care ecosystems actually perform: care pathways, staffing and safety, and the personnel, patient and cost impacts of organisational decisions, studied with routinely collected data.
Leadership & capacity building
Decision support for managers and first-line supervisors, agile leadership interventions that protect professionals' well-being, and building capacity through leadership education, doctoral supervision and mentoring.
Health information & interoperability
Common data models, standards, the European Health Data Space and federated learning that trains AI without moving the data, making health information flow, and mean the same thing, across systems and borders.
Ethics, law & responsible evaluation
The ethical, legal and social implications (ELSI) of AI and digital health, and how new technologies should be evaluated, responsibly and rigorously, before they reach patients and professionals.
Implementation & research-to-practice
Getting evidence into everyday care: how technologies are adopted, used and reinvented in real clinical work, and how to shorten the distance from research to practice and impact.
Bridging the field
EFMI · Europe
Through the European Federation for Medical Informatics, I work to connect academia, healthcare and industry across Europe.
- Executive Board Institutions Member Officer
- Chair Nursing Informatics working group
- Chair, Programme Committee MIE 2027, Tallinn
International leadership
IAHSI · IMIA · Global
As President-Elect of the International Academy of Health Sciences Informatics, I help lead the global health and biomedical informatics community.
- President-Elect IAHSI (IMIA), 2025–2027
- Chair, Governance Advisory Panel IMIA Nursing Informatics
- Fellow IAHSI (FIAHSI) & FEANS
Co-founder of the IMIA Student & Emerging Professionals group, building bridges between emerging and senior colleagues: welcoming newcomers, mentoring, and networking across the field.
Co-founded & co-directed
NAIL Collaborative · Global
I co-founded and co-direct the Nursing & AI Leadership (NAIL) Collaborative, an international network reimagining how nursing and artificial intelligence advance health.
- Co-director & founding member since 2017
- International think-tanks Brocher Foundation, 2019 & 2024
- Network nursing, informatics, AI, ethics & policy
Academic profile
Curriculum vitae
The full record is on ORCID and the university research portals.
ORCID profile ↗Appointments
- 2024– Associate Professor (tenured), Health & Social Management University of Eastern Finland & Wellbeing Services County of North Savo
- 2024– Senior Research Fellow University of Turku
- 2025 Visiting Associate Professor University of Warwick, UK
- 2021– Docent (Adjunct Professor), Nursing Science University of Turku
- 2022–2024 University Research Fellow Department of Nursing Science, University of Turku
- 2018–2022 Clinical Lecturer Department of Nursing Science, University of Turku
Education
- PhD, Doctor of Philosophy University of Turku
- Master of Health Sciences University of Turku
- Postgraduate Certificate in Health Sciences, Advanced Nursing The University of Auckland, New Zealand
- Bachelor of Nursing, Registered Nurse Yrkeshögskolan Sydväst, Finland
Academic service
- President-Elect, International Academy of Health Sciences Informatics (IAHSI)
- Executive Board, European Federation for Medical Informatics (EFMI)
- Chair, EFMI Nursing Informatics working group
- Associate Editor, Public Health Nursing (Wiley)
- Co-director & founding member, Nursing & AI Leadership (NAIL) Collaborative
- Chair, Scientific Programme Committee, MIE 2027
- Doctoral supervision across health sciences, medicine and health technology
- Fellow: FIAHSI & FEANS
Hospital & wellbeing-county affiliations
- Wellbeing Services County of Southwest Finland (Varha)
- Wellbeing Services County of North Savo (PSHVA)
For other researchers
Instruments & surveys developed
Validated instruments I have developed that other researchers and teams can use and cite.
Hospital Shift Leaders' Information Needs Questionnaire
The day-to-day information needs of hospital shift leaders in operational management.
J Nurs Manag · 2018
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Advanced Life Support Performance instrument
The quality of advanced life support (resuscitation) performance in clinical settings.
Acta Anaesthesiol Scand · 2017
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Situational Awareness in Operational Management instrument
Nursing leaders' situational awareness in day-to-day hospital operational management.
FinJeHeW · 2023
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Esteem
Invited talks
Selected invited talks at international institutions and conferences.
- 2026 Invited talk & panel, MultimodalAI Workshop Columbia University · New York, USA
- 2026 Panel discussion, 2026 Kresge Center Lecture Decker College of Nursing & Health Sciences, Binghamton University · New York, USA
- 2025 How Nurses Can Shape AI to Transform Global Healthcare UN Commission on the Status of Women (CSW), AI event · New York, USA
- 2025 Transforming Nursing Workflows Through AI: Efficiency, Accuracy and Innovation Yale School of Nursing · New Haven, USA
- 2025 Adopting AI into the Culture of a Nursing School Drexel University, Hot Topics in AI in Health · Philadelphia, USA
- 2025 Emerging Trends of AI in Nursing and Healthcare Generative AI in Nursing symposium, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University · Taipei, Taiwan
- 2025 Nursing in the Age of Artificial Intelligence Nursing Data Symposium · Lucerne, Switzerland
- 2024 Unleashing the Potential of Nurses: Sustainable Applications of AI in Healthcare Chinese Nursing Discipline Development Conference, Peking Union Medical College · Beijing, China
- 2023 From Data to Evidence-Informed Leadership and Management in Care MedInfo 2023, Nursing & Midwifery Day · Sydney, Australia
Recognition
Awards & honours
- 2022 Fellow, International Academy of Health Sciences Informatics (FIAHSI) International Medical Informatics Association
- 2020 Fellow, European Academy of Nursing Science (FEANS) European Academy of Nursing Science
- 2024 IAS Visiting Professor Award University of Warwick, UK
- 2024 Occupational Health Achievement of the Year Finnish Association of Occupational Health Physicians (STLY)
- 2024 Best Poster Presentation, NI2024 Int. Congress on Nursing Informatics, Manchester, UK
- 2020 Working Group of the Year Award International Medical Informatics Association (IMIA)
- 2019 Working Group of the Year Award International Medical Informatics Association (IMIA)
- 2016 3rd place, Best Scientific Article (Clinical Information Systems) International Medical Informatics Association