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Notice - Professionals Written on 9.2.2023 All notices

The secondary use of social welfare client data is now progressing in leaps and bounds. In the next few years, the wellbeing services counties will be able to utilise nationally comprehensive and up-to-date monitoring data on social welfare. Data on the time periods when clients had an active client relationship with social welfare and the services they were provided will be collected during 2023 on the Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare’s social welfare monitoring register.

At the end of 2022, data formed from social welfare client data were transferred for the first time from the Kanta Services’ Client Data Archive for Social Welfare Services to Sosdata, the new social welfare monitoring register. The archive now contains the data of approximately half a million customers from the 2020s, and more clients’ data is constantly being added. The goal for the next few years is for data to be collected fully automatically.

This is an important step in the reform of social welfare data production. Such extensive utilisation of client data in e.g., statistics, is also exceptional by international standards.

The Kanta Services were originally developed for the primary use of data, that is, to provide treatment for patients and services for clients. When the data is utilised for research or knowledge management, for example, this is referred to as a secondary use of information. Refining the data in the Client Data Archive for Social Welfare Services for secondary use was one of the main priorities for the development of Kanta Services in 2022, and this development is still ongoing.

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