Amount of data stored in the Kanta Services

The Kanta Services combine client and prescription data from social welfare and health care. Data recorded in health care services is stored in the Patient Data Repository while medication data is stored in the Prescription service, and social welfare data is stored in the Client Data Archive for Social Welfare Services.

Health care

Patient data has been stored in Kanta since 2014. The amount of patient data grows steadily each year. By the end of 2023, a total of more than 3.6 billion medical records on 6.7 million people had been stored in Kanta.

Social welfare

Social welfare client data has been stored in Kanta since 2018. The Client Data Archive for Social Welfare Services is not yet used by all public and private social welfare services providers, but the amount of client data stored in the service is increasing rapidly. The first social welfare documents became available in MyKanta for clients in November 2023. By the end of 2023, a total of 97 million documents on 1.6 million people had been stored in Kanta. At that point, a total of 12,000 phase II documents available in MyKanta had been stored in the Kanta system. They originated from two wellbeing services counties.

Prescription

The Prescription service has been in use since 2010. All prescriptions have been issued as electronic prescriptions since 2017. The number of prescriptions issued by physicians has remained steady in recent years. A total of 30 million prescriptions were issued through Kanta in 2023.

In 2023, 2 million more prescriptions were written than in the previous year. The number of prescriptions used increased by 4.5% compared to the previous year.

More prescription medicines are dispensed than there are prescriptions, because a pharmacy can dispense medicines several times based on a single prescription. Each year, prescriptions are used three times more often than they are written.