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People of Solita Health

• healthtech
  
  Sanna  Virkkunen Senior Consultant, Health & Wellbeing

  Hi! I’m Sanna Virkkunen from Oulu, Finland. I work in multiple roles and I just love it!

  I’m leading Solita Health sales here in Northern Finland, I’m also account director for some our wonderful customers and I get to manage the business of our Palveluohjain – the national scheduling solution for social and healthcare. 

  I’ve been working at Solita for over a year now and not a day has been the same. I love the variety of my work and the cases I can deep dive in.

  I’m working with our strategic accounts and I’m also part of our public pre-sales team. I get to see public organisation’s procurement processes close by. I also get my hands dirty with creating offers for our customers.

  What I love is the people I get to work with. Our people are so talented and multi-skilled –  I get to learn new things and new aspects every day from my colleagues! Even though we work in so many different areas we still have so much in common. It’s been comforting for me to realise that the technology and the new innovation process remain the same despite jumping from one sector to another.

  Solita Health was the thing that lured me to Solita. What inspired me the most was the fact Solita Health is working on all levels of wellbeing – from healthcare to olympic sports and everything in between! For me wellbeing is not just lack of sickness – it’s more about building balance with all aspects of everyday life. That is an everlasting area to develop and Solita is good at it!

  Read Sanna’s full story here.

• software
  
  Ari  Ruotsalainen Software Architect & People Lead

  Utilising software development skills as an asset for the Health sector

  My name is Ari Ruotsalainen and I work as a People Lead at Solita. Besides the leadership work for twenty software development professionals, I like coding. That’s why I participate in various projects as a developer or in architect roles.

  I have been working on the Omaolo.fi project from the beginning, for about three and half years as a Software Architect together with great colleagues and partners.

  I like to create something that has value for the customer and users. I like to solve technical challenges and build robust solutions that I can be proud of. Working with more skilled people than yourself is rewarding – thus, I have been working at Solita for 19 years.

  For me working in the Health domain is not so different from any other domain but when you are doing something, which might provide a lot of value for the end users and in the best case for the whole of Finland it is very rewarding.

  Read Ari’s full story here.

   

• data
  
  Kari  Antila Data Scientist

  An engineer by nature and a physicist by heart navigating the Health sector

  I’m Kari, a scientist in my forties, born in Ostrobotnia, currently living and working in Tampere. My background is engineering and physics, and perhaps I could say that I’m an engineer by nature and a physicist by heart. Most of my professional career I’ve worked with medical images and other signals and done quite a bit of project preparation management and delivery as well. My role is to work as a data analysis expert for various customers that operate with data related to health. My title is Data Scientist.

  I enjoy diving deep into problems that have real world applications and potential to make a lasting effect. I’m a bit of a tinkerer, so coming up with practical and clever solutions to the problems at hand brings me great joy. It has been said, that the world is drowning in data but ever starving for knowledge. Refining that data to a usable form is something of a passion and in my opinion a solid career path as well. Off work I like to do road cycling, alpine skiing, bass playing and I’m a part time farmer, too.

  I love the brevity of work and customers we have. I’m also a bit of a geek, so I greatly appreciate the possibility of keeping up with and utilizing the latest in technology.

  I’m inspired by the potential of making on impact in form of better health. In Finland we have massive registers of professional and personal health data that have potential far beyond their current usage. Solita really is a hotspot for utilizing these resources.

  Read Kari’s full story here.

• tech
  
  Janne  Kaartinen Solutions Architect

  My name is Janne Kaartinen and I am working as a Solutions Architect, mainly for Solita’s Health projects. 

  My family and friends are my top priorities, but I’m always trying to keep an open mind and take possible challenges at work or personal life as opportunities to develop personally and professionally.

  Currently I’ve been working on online services that form a significant part of Finland’s national health IT architecture, the Omaolo symptom check-up service and Palveluohjain, the national self-service for reserving medical appointments.

  I consider myself a generalist and a team player balancing my time and interests between business, technology and people. I love the fact that I utilise my varied skill set every day and when I need to I can always find a Solitan more knowledgeable than me to help me with specific problems.

  I have worked at Solita for 16 years, when I joined we were a group of 60 IT professionals and our Helsinki office was a 2 table room in an office hotel 🙂 It’s amazing how little the company culture and values have changed during the years.

  Read Janne’s full story here.

• developer
  
  Timo  Mäntyvaara Full Stack Developer

  My name is Timo Mäntyvaara. I am a full stack developer.
  My biggest passion is scouting. I’ve been an active scout for almost thirty years. Outside scouting, video games, comics and movies consume most of my time.

  My team is Palveluohjain or Service Controller in English. It is a service for managing appointments for social and health care services. Most of us in Team Palveluohjain are from Oulu. I might be a somewhat atypical Solitan developer in some sense, because I have been working in the same project for my entire time at Solita.

  I have worked at Solita for 3½ years. One of the best things about working at Solita is the trust and freedom employees are given here. And the fact that we mostly work in our own offices with our own teams. That was actually also one of the main reasons I chose to apply to Solita.

  My background was already in special health care systems, so I guess it was a natural transition for me. My main inspiration is the impact digitalisation makes. 

  Read Timo’s full story here.