Vivian Vimarlund
Jönköping University, Sweden
Biography
Vivian Vimarlund is Professor in e-health and in Informatics. She has a wide experience on management and leadership. Academic leadership is practiced as academic leader of the informatics research group, Director of the Research Center (CENIT/IS) at Jönköping International School (JIBS), as a Member of the American Medical Informatics (AMIA) Mentorship programme, and as the scientific leader of a series of research projects with focus on implementation, business models and social innovations. She is also the co-director of the master programme Software Engineering and Management at LiU, the coordinator of the national eHealth network and scientific secretary at SFMI. She has since 1989 conducted research within the area of Health Informatics with special focus on issues such as: a) Methods and models to evaluate the impact of the implementation and use of IT-based innovations in healthcare. b) Business models for Public Information Systems and Electronic Markets c) E-health services implementation.