Your client and patient data are stored in Kanta Services when you use social welfare and healthcare services. Through the Kanta Services, your data can move from one professional treating you to another, for example, across different wellbeing services counties, if you have given your consent to share your data.
When there are significant changes to the use of your data, you will receive new information about Kanta Services. You will receive a notification on this in MyKanta or when you visit your social welfare and healthcare services.
What should I do when I receive information about Kanta Services in MyKanta?
If you have not yet received the latest information about Kanta Services,, i.e., a notification on the use of your data, it will open for you to read in MyKanta as soon as you log in.
Read the notification and confirm receipt by ticking the box at the bottom. After this, you can continue to use MyKanta as usual. If you are acting on behalf of someone else, you can also acknowledge receipt of the notification.
You can also check in MyKanta if you have already confirmed the receipt of the notification on the use of your data. Your confirmation and the date on which you provided it are shown in the Management of Data Use section. The notification is confirmed as being received in MyKanta even if you have received it while visiting a healthcare service facility.
Minors and persons with the right to access information can access MyKanta even if the receipt of new information about Kanta Services has not been confirmed.
What happens when you confirm receipt of information about Kanta Services?
After reading and confirming the receipt of information about Kanta Services,
- you can give or update your consent to share your data
- you can restrict the use of your data by setting up denials of consent to data sharing
- your patient data may be used by public health service providers throughout the whole of Uusimaa, if necessary.