Informatician is not a job title you hear about very often. What do your days look like at Cambio?
My main responsibility at Cambio is to make sure that what we develop has a high level of semantic interoperability. Which in very simple terms means that systems speak the same language and communicate with each other. Semantic interoperability is achieved by implementing international and national standards for exchanging and storing health care data as well as applying the proper terminology.
In a typical week, I spend most of my time working with applying these kinds of standards, more specifically HL7 FHIR and openEHR, in some shape or form. It could be creating FHIR-profiles or creating openEHR-templates for example. I also participate in national work groups regarding these standards to contribute to a national strategy of how we should apply them in a Swedish context. Additionally, I take part in several different projects where my expertise is needed, which is a bit all over the place whenever healthcare data is stored, retrieved and exchanged.
What do you find most rewarding in your current role?
That I actually get to work with informatics at a company that truly values the importance of informatics. This is something very rare from my experience.
What’s the best advice you can give to someone about to start their career and think that eHealth and Health Informatics sounds interesting?
Health informatics isn't something you start to work with without any experience or knowledge. Either you gain the knowledge by studying health informatics at a university, Karolinska Institute for example where I got my degree. An alternative is to start working within the eHealth domain and slowly move towards more informatics-related topics such as system integrations for example. Thus gaining the experience from the work itself and other experienced colleagues.
How would you describe the company culture here at Cambio?
The company culture at Cambio is very friendly, caring and welcoming. The organization is quite flat and I love that because it enables an environment where you're encouraged to participate and share your opinions.
If you had three wishes, what would they be?
- A recovered climate
- Semantic interoperability for everyone!
- I would like to travel to Iceland someday and see whales