Healthcare CTO and founder (Hifian) — one of four CTO roles across healthcare, retail (RELEX Solutions, scaled to unicorn), tax (Aibidia) and HR (TalentAdore).
15+ years of healthcare domain expertise spanning hospital cost-per-patient analytics (5 B€+/year invoicing), DRG patient classification systems at Finnish and Nordic level, national-level hospital invoicing standardization, and large-scale healthcare data platforms on public cloud integrating 50+ IT systems.
Currently finishing a PhD at Aalto University with multiple publications on AI agents applied to healthcare classification data, including best paper award from PCSI 2025 on AI Agents and hospital invoicing logic, and a published NordDRG AI Benchmark for evaluating LLMs on healthcare funding instruments.
At TietoEvry Healthcare, headed the advanced healthcare analytics unit and published Finland's most accurate COVID-19 pandemic forecasts in 2020.
- Doctoral dissertation on Software Agents and Generative AI with healthcare as primary application domain. Pre-examination comments received; finalizing the manuscript by June 2026; public defense and approval scheduled for Q3/2026.
- PCSI 2025 Best Paper Award: “Curated Learning: How Humans and AI Agents Align on Decision-Making Rules” — AI agents on hospital invoicing logic.
- NordDRG AI Benchmark: Published first public evaluation suite for hospital funding logic with LLMs, enabling governance-grade comparison of AI models on DRG classification.
- HADA Framework: Human-AI Agent Decision Alignment architecture applied to NordDRG hospital funding context.
- 21 healthcare-related publications across 2007–2025 in patient classification, hospital analytics, and AI-driven clinical decision support.
- Healthcare Data Lake: Implemented one of the world's largest healthcare data lakes on public cloud, integrating data from 50+ IT systems including Epic (Apotti).
- COVID-19 Forecasting: When the pandemic hit Finland in 2020, headed the advanced healthcare analytics unit and published most accurate pandemic forecasts in Finland. Read the blog post
- Healthcare Platforms: Delivered Microsoft Azure data platforms for large hospitals (Data Factory, Power BI, Databricks).
- Organizational: Reported to CTO during Tieto and EVRY merger (24,000 employees). Participated in RFP's up to 300 M€+ in budget.
- National Hospital Invoicing: Worked 2008–2010 on Finnish national level to standardize how hospitals generate invoices. Produced a 100+ page report on calculation model, IT systems, classifications and practices, published for all hospitals.
- Hospital Price Lists: Calculated price lists for all Finnish hospitals (2008–2011). Received special care materials from all hospitals, calculated “cost weights” at different levels, sent back to hospitals for pricing services towards end receivers.
- Nordic DRG Expert: Participated in Nordic Steering group and expert groups as data scientist, analyzing impacts to calculation rules during maintenance and development of Diagnose Related Groups (NordDRG).
- Analytics Platform: Lead contributor in developing a national-level hospital analytics platform integrating financial cost data with clinical activities. Outcomes adopted for hospital invoicing across Finland.
- International conference speaker (2008–2013) at PCSI, ICEIS, ESTSP, EDBDT. Published in Finnish Medical Journal (Lääkärilehti).
- Hospital Cost Analytics: Hospital cost-per-patient data warehousing for Finnish hospitals generating 5 B€+ per year in invoices.
- Two-dimensional statistical model condensing clinically and resource-wise similar patient groups, combining clinical and financial data.
- Technologies: Python, Java, J2EE, JavaScript, MS SQL, PostgreSQL, ETL systems, Data Warehousing.