LifeIT is a specialist consultancy and development company that focuses on developing IT applications for use in health care and telemedicine. With a cross-section of employees drawn from both the IT and health care fields, the company has a thorough understanding of the IT applications that are needed on an everyday basis by health care professionals.

Founded in 2000 and owned by the South Ostrobothnia Health District, the city of Seinäjoki, Tampere University Foundation, and private organisations such as TietoEnator, LifeIT is involved in both implementing public projects and consulting health care technology companies.

Two of the most important projects currently being coordinated by LifeIT are a project, funded by the Ministry of Social Affairs and Health and a group of 10 hospital districts across Finland, to launch new IT applications; and a project, funded by Tekes, Finland’s National Technology Agency, and five hospital districts, to develop a suite of new technology and innovative services. These two projects are the largest of their type seen in Finland to date.