Timo Alalääkkölä

Mr. Timo Alalääkkölä, M.Sc. in Economics, works as Head of Testing and Innovations at the Wellbeing Services County of North Ostrobothnia. He is developing public-private collaboration models for healthcare sector and managing the OuluHealth Labs innovation, testing and development platform. Mr. Alalääkkölä has a long experience in IT related research, development and innovation projects since 2004. He started his professional career at Nokia where he was responsible of R&D related innovation procurement management. Since 2013 Mr. Alalääkkölä has been working in the health and life science sector. His current responsibilities include operating the OYS TestLab and participation to various development projects at OYS, including Future Hospital 2030 program. His most recent project AICCELERATE aims to develop an adaptable AI-based toolset for a variety of clinical use cases. The project focus is on AI enhanced patient-centric digital care pathways and on optimizing patient flow management. Mr. Alalääkkölä is currently working towards Ph.D. in University of Oulu Business School where he is researching health innovation networks from international business perspective.