Useful e-Health Systems or Useful Health Information? (Asia Pacific Chapter)
Presenters
Professor Isto Huvila holds the chair in information studies at the Department of ALM (Archival Studies, Library and Information Studies and Museums and Cultural Heritage Studies) at Uppsala University in Sweden and is docent (~adjunct professor) in information management at Information Studies, Åbo Akademi University in Turku, Finland. During the academic year 2019/20 Huvila was working as a visiting professor at the School of Information (iSchool, Library, Archival and Information Studies) at The University of British Columbia in Vancouver. His primary areas of research include information and knowledge management, information work, knowledge organization, documentation, research data, and social and participatory information practices. The contexts of his research ranges from archaeology and cultural heritage, archives, libraries and museums to health information and e-health, social media, virtual worlds and corporate and public organizations. Huvila's work has been funded, among others, by the European Research Council, the Swedish Research Council and the Academy of Finland and he has given numerous invited talks and published broadly on the topics ranging from information work management, archaeological information management, social media, virtual reality information issues to archival studies and museum informatics, and health information. He received a MA degree in cultural history at the University of Turku in 2002 and a PhD degree in information studies at Åbo Akademi University (Turku, Finland) in 2006.
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