Making Health Data Available for AI Innovation
Tuesday May 5, 2026 09:00 - 11:00 F3
Lecturers: Erika Bellander, Johanna Furuhjelm, Kevin Groot Lipman, Magnus Boman, Markus Lingman, Peter KellyWorkshop leader: Päivi Östling
Track: Workshops
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AI has great potential to accelerate the development of new treatments, diagnostics, and medical research, but this requires high‑quality health data. Intensive work is underway on multiple fronts, with cross‑border collaborations helping pave the way for faster implementation of AI in healthcare.
This seminar is aimed at anyone interested in a deeper discussion on:
- Big data, infrastructure, and data quality
- Ethics, regulatory compliance, and societal impact
- Innovation – the needs of industry, academia, and healthcare to collaborate and bring new AI solutions from prototype to market
The seminar is held in two parts, with a total duration of 2 hours, and will be conducted in English.
Arranged by SciLifeLab Data Centre, Karolinska Institutet's Centre for AI Innovation, and TEF-Health – the European Testing and Experimentation Facility for Health AI and Robotics.
Topic
Future Health and Care
Lecture type
Workshop
Objective of lecture
Tools for implementation
Level of knowledge
Intermediate
Target audience
Management/decision makers
Organizational development
Technicians/IT/Developers
Healthcare professionals
Keyword
Actual examples (good/bad)
Benefits/effects
Innovation/research
Test/validation
Law, Judicial procedures
Patient safety
Information security
Government information
Ethics
Informatics/Interoperability
Lecturers
Erika Bellander Lecturer
Innovation Manager
Karolinska Institutet
Erika Bellander is an innovation manager and communications expert with deep experience of collaboration at the intersection of industry, healthcare, academia, and patient communities. She leads External Relations at Karolinska Institutet’s Centre for AI Innovation, building on more than a decade at Karolinska University Hospital. As a long time consultant, she has supported hospitals, universities, government agencies, private companies, and NGOs in navigating cross sector challenges.
Johanna Furuhjelm Lecturer
Director Centre for AI Innovation
Karolinska Institutet
Johanna Furuhjelm works at the intersection of health innovation, applied research, and emerging technologies. She currently serves as Director of the Centre for AI Innovation at Karolinska Institutet and as Deputy Node Leader and Node Coordinator for TEF-Health, Sweden’s Testing and Experimentation Facility for AI and robotics in healthcare. In her roles, she drives the development, evaluation, and responsible implementation of AI and robotic solutions for health, accelerating how researchers and companies translate new technologies into clinical practice. With more than a decade of experience supporting Life Science innovation, Johanna has worked extensively to bridge research, industry, and healthcare.
Kevin Groot Lipman Lecturer
Clinical AI Implementation Lead
The Netherlands Cancer Institute
As technical physician with expertise in artificial intelligence and medical imaging, dr. Kevin Groot Lipman combines technical knowledge with medical insight to advance healthcare technology. He currently holds a position as Clinical AI Lead at the Netherlands Cancer Institute.
Magnus Boman Lecturer
Professor in AI within Health
Karolinska Institutet
Magnus Boman leads the AI@KI efforts to support KI researchers in all matters AI, since 2020, also working as an advisor on research methodology involving artificial intelligence and machine learning.
His research is in AI and how it may be used for precision medicine and multimodal prediction and prevention, how it will make us think about evolving norms and values, how AI can help us learn over time for cross-domain applications, how it should take on energy-efficient forms that address the von Neumann bottleneck, such as reservoirs for neuromorphic computing, and can help translate the output from quantum sensors into meaningful and actionable information.
Markus Lingman Lecturer
Chief Strategy Officer of board of Halland hospital group
Region Halland
MD, PhD, management strategist and professor, member of the National Advisory Board for Medicine and Health, and specialist physician in Region Halland. Awarded Sweden’s AI Person of the Year in 2020.
Peter Kelly Lecturer
MD, researcher, innovation
Sahlgrenska University Hospital
Dr Peter Kelly is a physician, researcher, and works with innovation, operating on behalf of the Director of Digitalisation at Sahlgrenska University Hospital. His work is both strategic — for example by promoting structures that enhance innovation among doctors — and operational, through his responsibility for projects related to innovation.
Päivi Östling Workshop leader
Translation and Health Data Specialist
SciLifeLab
Päivi Östling's extensive experience in research and strategic roles is invaluable for advancing precision medicine. Together with the Precision Medicine Team, she leads two major infrastructure projects: one on advancing clinical trials and the TEF-Health project, which supports Health AI providers across Europe.