Tarmo Kiivit helps Swiss 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.
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AI Value Scan: clarity before you invest
AI pressure is high, but unclear direction leads to wasted pilots and poor returns. With 10+ years of experience delivering real-world AI solutions, Helmes helps you cut through hype and focus on what actually creates value. The AI Value Scan gives you fast, practical clarity on where to invest in AI, and what to avoid.
What you’ll get:
- Clear view of your AI readiness
- Prioritized, high-impact AI use cases
- Practical AI roadmap with next steps
- Insight into which AI initiatives not to pursue
Some of Tarmo´s complex digitalization projects
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: 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.