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Päivi Hämäläinen
Country
Finland
Job title
Head of Centre of Excellence for Information and Communication Technology in Health and Social Care
Organisation
STAKES, National R&D Centre for Welfare and Health
Email address
Website
Biography
PhD, MD, MA, Specialist of Public Health and General Medicine, the director of OSKE – the Centre of Excellence for Information and Communication Technology in Welfare and Health within Stakes has 15 years of experience from clinical practice in primary and specialised care. She has worked in the R&D field and state administration since 1996 and has acted as a state medical officer involved in medical surveillance and handling of patient complaints. She made her PhD on the implementation of policies, legislation and guidelines in care settings. She has leaded the national working group, set by the Ministry of Social Affairs and Health, on the strategy and implementation of the national electronic patient records system in Finland. Dr. Päivi Hämäläinen has been involved in several Finnish national eHealth and other health care developments such as the national seamless service chain legislation working group, the Finnish adaptation of the EU health care card, the national registry of private social- and health care providers. At the EU and International level she has been involved in the Finnish contribution to eHealth work. She is also involved in OECD Health care Quality Indicator-work and, in Finland, care quality registers and safety of medical equipment.
Description organisation
Stakes (www.stakes.fi) the National Research and Development Centre for Welfare and Health is committed to promoting the wellbeing and health, and to securing equal access for all to high-quality and effective welfare and healthcare services. Stakes produces information and know-how in the field and forwards them to decision-makers and other actors. As a centre of expertise overseen by the Ministry of Social Affairs and Health, Stakes bases its functions on research, development and information resources. Stakes is a public body. Groups of each Division are hosting the R&D projects. The amount of personnel is about 450.
ONELINER
patient safety
Every person involved in the care process is responsible for patient safety. Patient safety comes from fitting together thousands of small parts of each care process. One loose screw grounds an airplane and it does not fly before the screw has been tightened. Does this happen in health care today?
Publications
patient safety
Hämäläinen PM, Home Respiratory Care; Implementation of Policy and Practice Acta Universitatis Tamperensis 673, Tampere, 1999
Laitinen LA, Anttalainen U, Pietinalho A, Hämäläinen P, Koskela K. Sleep apnoea: Finnish National guidelines for prevention and treatment 2002 – 2012. Respiratory medicine vol 97 (2003). 337 -365
Hämäläinen PM, Perälä M-L, Poussa T, Pelkonen M. Patient participation in decision-making on the introduction of home respiratory care: who does not participate? Health Expectations. No :6, 2003, pp 118-127.
Publications in Finnish