When it comes to your care, no separate consent is needed for social welfare and healthcare services to use your prescription data. The use of your data will then be based on the information about Kanta Services, i.e., the notification on the use of your data in social welfare and healthcare services, as well as any denials of consent to such data sharing. You can receive the information on Kanta Services either in MyKanta or when visiting your social welfare and healthcare service provider. At pharmacies, your prescription data can be accessed at your request.
You can limit the use of your prescription data by setting up denials of consent
You can deny the sharing of data pertaining to a specific prescription. Then the information on the prescription is not available to professionals. In this case, social welfare and healthcare service providers and pharmacies will only be able to use prescription data in exceptional cases.
If you have set up a denial of consent to sharing prescription data, a pharmacy will not be able to see the prescription in its systems.
When you buy a medicine with this type of prescription, you will need to take the patient instructions for your prescription with you or a summary including your prescription that you can print out from MyKanta.
Which prescriptions are not affected by denials of consent?
Certain prescriptions will be accessible to professionals involved in your medical treatment, even if you have set up a denial of consent to sharing their data. For example, a doctor prescribing a medicine or another social welfare and healthcare professional will see the following prescriptions and their dispensing information, regardless of the denial of consent, in the situations described below.
Renewing prescriptions
If you request a prescription renewal, the professional will see the details of the prescription being renewed.
Medicines affecting the central nervous system (CNS) and narcotic drugs
If your doctor is prescribing a medicine that mainly affects your central nervous system or is a narcotic drug, they will see the information on all the CNS medicines and narcotic drugs prescribed to you.
Prescriptions stored by the pharmacy
Regardless of the treatment relationship, the person issuing the prescription will be able to see the paper and telephone prescriptions stored by the pharmacy in Kanta.
Hospital pharmacy prescription
A hospital pharmacy can view information on a hospital pharmacy prescription if the prescription has been stored by the same healthcare service provider where the hospital pharmacy operates.
Situations involving disruptions, malfunctions and supervision
In the event of technical disruptions or malfunctions in the information systems, the technical staff can also use the prescription data stored in the Kanta Services to help resolve the situation. The data can also be used for supervisory purposes.
How do denials of consent work in different situations?
If you have set up a denial of consent, your prescription data cannot be used, not even in an emergency. However, when you set up a denial of consent, you can explicitly allow healthcare professionals to access your prescription data in case of an emergency. An emergency situation refers to a situation in which you are unconscious due to an accident or illness, for example.
If you have set up a denial of consent to sharing prescription data, the prescription data cannot be disclosed to a foreign pharmacy. If you intend to buy a medicine from a foreign pharmacy, you must withdraw the denial of consent in MyKanta before buying the medicine.
A prescription that has been issued at a public social welfare or healthcare service provider for a wellbeing services county is available in the public social welfare and healthcare services for the entire wellbeing services county.
If you have set up a denial of consent regarding a prescription, its data will not be shared with another wellbeing services county or a private healthcare service provider.