Only you and the social welfare and health care professionals in charge of your treatment, such as doctors and nurses, will be able to see your data in MyKanta. In certain cases, your parents or guardians may also view your information in MyKanta.
What is MyKanta?
MyKanta is a nationwide online service MyKanta displays data that has been saved on you when you visited health care, a pharmacy, or social services. You can also request a prescription renewal in MyKanta.
In MyKanta, you can view
- the information about your visit to health care or social welfare services
- your laboratory and X-ray examination results
- your prescriptions and vaccinations.
MyKanta will not necessarily show all of your previous visits to social welfare and health care services.
As a minor, you cannot
- acknowledge the information about the Kanta Services, i.e. the notification of the use of your data
- give consent to sharing of your data or restrict it with denials of consent
- submit a living will or an organ donation testament.
Handling these matters requires a social welfare or health care professional to assess your decision-making ability. For this reason, you can only handle such matters with a social welfare or health care professional.
How do I use MyKanta?
You can use MyKanta if you have a Finnish personal identity code and means of identification: You can ask your guardian for help in obtaining identification tools. Methods of identification include:
- online banking codes
- a mobile certificate
- an electronic identification card.
To log in to MyKanta, go to kanta.fi and click on the ‘Log in to MyKanta’ button.
You can also use the MyKanta application that you can download on your phone. The application contains the most commonly used MyKanta features. Read more about the MyKanta application.
You can also use MyKanta together with your guardian. Your guardian can use their own credentials when using MyKanta on your behalf.
Who can view my data in MyKanta?
The information shown in MyKanta is private. The information about you that is stored in MyKanta cannot be viewed by anyone who is not involved in managing your social welfare and health care affairs. For example, a teacher cannot access your information in MyKanta. Social welfare and health care professionals are always bound by professional secrecy in matters related to you, i.e. they will not disclose your affairs to others.
As a rule, your guardian can see the same information in MyKanta as you can. In certain situations, you can decide what information is visible to your guardian.
If you want to prohibit your guardian from seeing the details of an appointment, discuss the matter with a social welfare or health care professional. The professional will assess whether you can make a decision on the matter independently. If certain information is not visible to the guardian in MyKanta, it will not be communicated to them by phone or letter either.
The assessment will be made separately during each visit, and you cannot deny your guardian’s access to all your information. In addition, you cannot set denials of consent in MyKanta.
You can read more about how decision-making capacity is assessed and about your rights on the Minor’s rights page.
Frequently asked questions
Every service provider involved in your care, e.g. a wellbeing services county, will have their own data files, where patients’ and clients’ data are stored. Social welfare and health care professionals can view the data in their own register through the client or patient information system. They cannot access your data through MyKanta.
Your data can only be viewed and used by healthcare or social welfare professionals with whom you have had a patient or client relationship. Your data will only be used when it is necessary for your treatment and service use.
If you or your guardian has given permission for sharing of information between service providers, a professional can also see your data recorded elsewhere. This means that your data is available e.g. to different wellbeing services counties. For example, if you move to another wellbeing services county for your studies or if you use both public and private health care and social welfare services, service providers may need to view your data recorded elsewhere.
Consent to data sharing must be given separately for health care and social welfare services.
Read more about how to have a say in the use of your data in social welfare and health care services.
As a rule, your guardian can see the same information in MyKanta as you can.
You can check in MyKanta to see the prescriptions or service events (appointments) to which you have denied your guardian’s access. Information on these prescriptions and appointments can be found in the MyKanta section (management of data use).
Previously, only the data of a child under the age of 10 could be displayed to a guardian in MyKanta. If necessary, you can ask the health care unit that treated you for information on the start date from which your data could be displayed to the guardian without an age limit.
Prescriptions and health information recorded before 1 August 2016 are not visible at all to the guardian in MyKanta.
How do I know if my guardian has viewed my data in MyKanta?
In the MyKanta online service, you can view who has acted on your behalf in My Kanta over the past two years. You can find this data in the Tietojen käytön hallinta (management of data use) section.
Your guardian will not be able to see any of your information in MyKanta after you turn 18.
After you have turned 18, you can grant another adult, such as your parent or another person close to you, authority to manage matters on your behalf in MyKanta. This can be useful if you become ill or are otherwise unable to manage your affairs in MyKanta.
If you grant authority to another adult, they will have access to all your patient data and social services client data. This also applies to data that you have previously prohibited from being disclosed to your guardian. However, another adult will not be able to view your organ donation testament, and advance decisions on care, or the wellbeing data you have saved in MyKanta.
Your guardian may renew your prescription in MyKanta if
- you have not restricted the visibility of the prescription to your guardian
- medication has already been dispensed for the prescription
- the prescription is valid or expired less than 4 months ago
- there is no renewal prohibition on the prescription.
Your nurse is obliged to write a medical record of your visit. A record of your visit will be visible to you in MyKanta.
If you wish to prevent the entry from being visible to your guardian in MyKanta, please mention this to the professional during your appointment. If your nurse assesses that you are mature enough to understand and make a decision about the matter you have been discussing, the record on your visit will not be shown to your guardian in MyKanta.
Please note that you cannot edit or delete your information in MyKanta yourself.