Visa Honkanen MD, PhD, Chief Digital Officer, is responsible on the digital disruption and lean turn-around at the Helsinki University Hospital.  His work focuses on digitalization, ehealth, and artificial intelligence development for the clinical use. His research interest has been in clinical studies and experimental statistics. For his work on the ehealth, he received the Finnish healthcare influencer of the year award in 2016.

Visa Honkanen has background in pediatrics and pediatric rheumatology. He did his pediatric rheumatology training at the Hospital for Sick Children, in Toronto, Canada. He still teaches and practices pediatric rheumatology.
 

Experient leader with over 20 years of experience within the IT/Telecom sector, involved in all parts of the system implementation process - Requirement definition, RFQ, Development, Test, Deployment and Operation 24/7 of IT Services.
After participating in the start-up of 2 Telecom operators I also have vast experience of growing companies that never stop changing & evolving, and I have a special passion for simplifying the way of working to concentrate on the most important - our customers!
As CIO for the Anicura group, with over 400 veterinary clinics & hospitals in 14 European countries, I am making sure we are in the front line of the digital agenda making life smarter and easier for our pets, pet owners and clinics.