Julia Lebedeva

Julia Lebedeva is the Head of Healthcare IT & AI practice at ScienceSoft. She oversees competency development in the healthcare domain across the company and drives practice-wide initiatives focused on healthcare AI adoption.

Julia has worked in IT since 2017, with experience in software quality assurance, business analysis, project management, and presales. She joined ScienceSoft as a Presales Manager and contributed to a broad range of healthcare projects, including population health software initiatives. She now applies this experience to expanding ScienceSoft’s expertise in value-based care and population health.

Julia’s attention to detail and sense of responsibility in healthcare engagements led her to become Head of ScienceSoft’s Healthcare IT & AI Practice in 2025. In this role, she introduced a more structured approach to organizing the work, with designated owners for key healthcare subdomains and separate tracks for building the required competencies.

Today, Julia determines what healthcare knowledge employees need for their project responsibilities, overseeing the company's healthcare IT certification efforts and continuous learning programs. She also supports healthcare-focused R&D initiatives that explore the practical potential of emerging technologies, such as multi-agent AI systems for healthcare.

Recently, Julia helped turn the preparation of several specialists for the CAHIMS certification into a company-wide learning opportunity. Employees who had completed the required HIMSS onboarding course shared key covered concepts through a series of internal sessions, making foundational healthcare IT knowledge accessible to hundreds of specialists across the company.

In healthcare, the earlier you bring up the difficult questions, the fewer surprises you leave for the delivery team and the client. My job is to make sure our teams know the field well enough to accurately grasp the context and risks of each initiative before making assumptions and promises.