Name: Data Science Seminar "Creating Impact from Real-World Health Data"
Start: 2026-03-18T15:45:00+02:00
Location: Narva mnt 18, 50409 Tartu, Estonia

📣 The Data Science Seminar "Creating Impact from Real-World Health Data" takes place 18 March from 15.45 in the Delta auditorium 1037. 🩺
Register here: https://forms.gle/9embp7x9UBBX4KEcA
More info here: https://cs.ut.ee/en/content/data-science-seminar-creating-impact-real-world-health-data
Real-World Health Data (RWD) is expanding at unprecedented scale-generated through every clinical encounter, diagnosis, laboratory measurement, prescription, procedure, and health-related transaction. These digital traces form a high-resolution map of how health systems function in real clinical settings, for real patients, across time. Properly harnessed, they enable evidence grounded not only in controlled trials, but in the lived complexity of everyday care.
Speakers:
📍 Tuomo Hartonen / Andrea Ganna, University of Helsinki, “DelFI - Towards a foundation model for Finnish health and registry data”
📍 Karl-Henrik Peterson, Member of Board at the Estonian Health Insurance Fund, “AI Vision in Estonian Health Care — system-level transformation and the promise of Delphi-2M–scale solutions”
📍 Alar Irs, University of Tartu Hospital; Chief Medical Officer at Estonian Medicines Agency, “The Hunger for Data — the clinical demand for integrated, decision-supportive information”
📍 Kerli Mooses, Research Fellow of Health Informatics at the University of Tartu,
“The Est-Health-30 database: infrastructure, real-world collaboration with clinicians, and analytical capacity”
📍 Marten Juurik, Head of the Unit of Research Integrity at the Estonian Research Council, “Ethics reform in Estonia — evolving approval frameworks for large-scale data research”
📍 Triin Laisk, Professor of Genomic Epidemiology at the University of Tartu, “The Hidden Half — advancing women’s health research through national-scale data resources”
The academic organisers of this event are the Head of the Institute of Computer Science and Professor of Bioinformatics Jaak Vilo and Research Fellow of Health Informatics Kerli Mooses.
🪧 In addition to two high-density scientific sessions, the programme includes an extended networking reception with refreshments and a curated poster session showcasing ongoing work across the ecosystem. Opportunity to present your own poster is available. If you would like to contribute a poster, please email [email protected] to help us plan the required number of poster stands or to request assistance with printing.