Baldur Johnsen

 

Baldur Johnsen has over 20 years of Information Technology experience including healthcare information technology, hospital management, IT management, systems development, network implementation, IT operations, and computer systems marketing and sales.  He has a proven track record of managing innovative complex IT projects including introduction of cutting edge technologies such as IP Telephony.

 

For 10 year he lead IT hospital operations in academic healthcare organizations, first as head of Information Technology for Reykjavik Hospital in Iceland, and later Director of Information Technology for Landspitali – University Hospital after the merger of Reykjavik Hospital and the National University Hospital in 2000.

 

Before his involvement in healthcare he held positions in IBM and Digital Equipment computer systems sales and marketing in Iceland.  He was responsible for the development of one of the first ISP businesses in the country.  Prior he worked as a systems developer for several IT implementations in government and finance.

 

He served on the Icelandic Healthcare Data Network project board since its conception in 2000 until 2005.  Served on the first Healthcare Informatics Masters Programme governing board at the University of Iceland and served on the board of the Icelandic Society for Information Processing.  He is currently on the Advisory Board for the first World of Health IT conference planned in Geneva in October 2006.

 

He has consulted various organizations on application of IT, Healthcare Information Technology, Internet technologies and IT projects including Cisco Systems and Hewlett-Packard Company.

 

Baldur Johnsen holds a B.S. degree in Computer Science and a Masters degree in Business Administration both from the University of Iceland.  He is a frequent speaker on the strategic application of Information Technology in Healthcare.