Tarmo Kiivit helps healthcare and pharma digitalize faster, integrate data, and stay audit-ready
Tarmo Kiivit is a founding partner at a leading Baltic digital innovation company Helmes. He is a pragmatic, big-picture digital leader with 20+ years of experience in large-scale projects, and a strong focus on measurable outcomes. Tarmo Kiivit focuses on building digital healthcare & pharma solutions for mission-critical environments, backed by Helmes battle-tested and ISO 27001-certified delivery.
Case-studies
Common Swiss healthcare and pharma IT challenges and proven ways to address them
From stalled legacy systems to phased modernization with early results
Typical challenges: legacy drag, slow releases, all-at-once full-scale transformation risks.
Helmes approach to digital transformation: phased modernization + fast first iteration to prove value and build momentum, backed by large-organization delivery experience (e.g., ESA portal update shipped quickly as an agile benchmark).
First steps we recommend:
- Transformation blueprint (target architecture + phased roadmap).
- Modernization plan (integrations first, replacements only where needed).
- First “value slice” scope + release plan.
From fragmented data flows to governed interoperability
Typical challenges: legacy drag, slow releases, all-at-once full-scale transformation risks.
Helmes approach: phased modernization + fast first iteration to prove value and build momentum, backed by large-organization delivery experience (e.g., ESA portal update shipped quickly as an agile benchmark).
First steps we recommend:
- Transformation blueprint (target architecture + phased roadmap).
- Modernization plan (integrations first, replacements only where needed).
- First “value slice” scope + release plan.
From delivery paralysis to audit-ready, iterative progress
Typical challenges: validation effort, audit trails, change control, and privacy obligations slow everything down.
Helmes approach: compliance-by-design delivery (risk-based, evidence-ready) so you can ship iteratively while keeping audit readiness intact.
We recommend:
- GxP impact + risk classification (what needs validation rigor, what doesn’t).
- Evidence plan (traceability, audit trails, documentation approach).
- Operating model for controlled change (so you stay in control after go-live).
Custom solutions that fit your needs
You can rely on Helmes when you need to:
- Modernise legacy systems without disrupting validated operations.
- Make data move reliably across teams and platforms (incl. standards like FHIR FHIR.ch where relevant).
- Deliver changes that stand up to GMP expectations and Swiss privacy requirements (Swissmedic).
Common starting points:
- Legacy modernisation + integrations
- Cloud foundations and migrations.
- Data platforms + governed analytics (interop-ready).
- AI initiatives with governance and operational controls.
- Proven delivery of business-critical digital system at national and global scale (30+ years of experience).
- Helmes delivers secure, high-compliance digital solutions in Switzerland and wider DACH region (incl. OECD, Kuehne-Nagel, OSIV, Hocoma AG).
- We have a long history with building innovative digital healthcare, pharmaceutical and hospital solutions
- Faster time to value through a unique engagement model that consistently outperforms traditional outsourcing.
- Helmes is one of the founders of Swiss-Baltic Chamber of Commerce.
About Tarmo Kiivit, founding partner and digital transformation expert in Helmes
Tarmo Kiivit is a founding partner at Helmes and a senior digital innovation leader with decades of experience in business-critical IT. He brings over 15 years of hands-on experience shaping e-Estonia, the world’s first digital state, including leading the digitalisation of the world’s first state-level e-prescription system—making him a strong fit for Swiss healthcare and pharma organisations operating in highly regulated environments.
Tarmo is also a co-founder of the Swiss-Baltic Chamber of Commerce, bringing deep cross-border perspective and long-term partnership thinking to Swiss organisations seeking reliable, compliant, and future-proof digital solutions.