Alpo Värri

Proposal(s) title:
  • Participation in the ISO/TC215 Health Informatics meetings in Toronto October 2025
Proposal(s) topic:

E-Health

Impact on SMEs:

Due to my background in the university, I look for opportunities to commercialise the results of our research projects in a start-up company. When I have this approach in my mind, I try to contribute to the standards in such a way that that their implementation does not require a large organisation. For example, this week I commented in a AI Risk Management System standard comment resolution meeting that this form of requirements means that the company has to have at least four people to be able to comply with the standard.

Impact on society:

Information technology supports the delivery of healthcare, making it safer, more effective and patient-friendly by making the personal health information accessible to the patients themselves. The standardisation work in ISO/TC215 supports these developments.


Value of Research

CEN/TC251 Health Informatics is a standards delivery organisation, meaning that it approves standards in Europe, but the standards do not have to be created in Europe. In fact, many of them come from the global health informatics committee ISO/TC215. For this reason, it is important to monitor and contribute to the standards prepared in ISO/TC215. This is what the purpose of this fellowship was about.

Alpo Värri
Full Name: Alpo Värri
Role: convenor
Title & Organisation Name: Tampere University
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