SPEAKER

Jordi Piera

Professor collaborator, Open University of Catalonia

Jordi, BSc, MSc, PhD, MBA, FHIMSS is dually trained in Computing Science Engineering (BSc) and Business Management (BSc) by the Autonomous University of Barcelona. Furthermore, he also holds an MSc in Telemedicine and E-health and a PhD in the economic evaluation of digital health solutions under the Information and Knowledge Society doctoral programme, both by the Open University of Catalonia. Lately, he completed an MBA at the Polytechnic University of Madrid.

He started working in the service provision in the year 2000, first as an analyst and software developer inside the Information Technologies Department, where he actively participated in the deployment and implementation of the Electronic Medical Record and in several research and innovation projects. After many years at the service provision side, Jordi moved to the Catalan Health Service where he is leading the Digital Health Strategy for Catalonia.

In the academic field, Jordi is a professor collaborator of the Faculty of Telecommunications, Informatics, and Multimedia at the Open University of Catalonia. His research interests are integrated care delivery models, semantic interoperability, and the design, implementation, and evaluation of digital health solutions. He is the Principal Investigator of the DS3 Research Group at IDIBELL and has extensive experience in international projects in the field of digital health.