This page provides information about the provision of Kanta information. On the pages below, you can read more about data sharing and how clients and patients can influence how their data is shared (consent and denial of consent).
What is information about Kanta Services?
Information about Kanta Services means providing the client with information on Kanta Services and on how their data is being processed in healthcare and social welfare services and how they can manage the sharing. This information is provided because the client has the right to know about the use of their client and patient data and about any changes in the way their data is processed.
Receiving information about Kanta Services is not the same as to give consent to data sharing.
What does the provision of information about Kanta Services affect?
Once the client has received the information about Kanta Services, they can
- give their consent to the sharing of their data stored therein with other wellbeing services counties and between public and private health care providers in connection with your treatment
- update their previously given consent so that your data can be disclosed both via Kanta Services and otherwise.
- limit the use of their data by setting up denials of consent to data sharing.
Once the client has received version 1.1 or 2.0 of the information about Kanta Services, their patient data will be available to public healthcare service providers anywhere in the Uusimaa region in connection with providing care. Read more about data sharing within Uusimaa (in Finnish).
A client’s data can be entered in Kanta Services even if they have not received the latest information about Kanta Services. A client can give consent to data sharing or set a denial of consent to data sharing in MyKanta or in connection with a visit to healthcare services.
The client can acknowledge receipt of the information about Kanta Services in MyKanta
If the client has not already confirmed the receipt of the latest information about Kanta Service, it will automatically open once they have logged in to MyKanta. The new information is available in MyKanta as of 30 November 2023. In MyKanta, you can also acknowledge the receipt of information about Kanta Services on behalf of another person.
The service provider must inform the client if the notification has not been acknowledged in MyKanta
If the client has not received the latest version of information about Kanta Services in MyKanta, it must be given to the client when they use health care. The information can be provided in health care as of 2 January 2024.
The patient information system identifies and guides the user if the client needs to be informed. Once the client has received information about Kanta Services, an entry must be made in the information system so that the information is stored in Kanta.
In most healthcare organisations, it is already possible to record the receipt of the information in the patient information system.
In social welfare services, the obligation to provide information begins when the service provider has joined Kanta Services and the sharing of data within the sector become possible.
Service providers must instruct their personnel on what to do if the versioned functionality that provides information about the Kanta Services has not been deployed by 31 December 2023.
If the patient information system has not introduced the versioned Kanta information functionality, it will not be possible to acknowledge a new receipt of information about the Kanta Services in the system. In this case, it will also not be possible to identify whether the client needs to be given the information again.
In such cases, and where possible, it is advisable to direct the clients to MyKanta to acknowledge receipt of the new information about the Kanta Services. After the functionality has been taken deployed in the patient information system, the system will identify clients who have not received the latest information about the Kanta Services in MyKanta or in health care, and will direct the user to provide the client with the information about the Kanta Services.
If the client has not received information about the Kanta Services at all, or if they received the information about the Kanta Services when they were a minor, the client must be provided the information about the Kanta Services when they engage with social and health care services. In this case, they will be given the new information about the Kanta Services, and the old information available in the system will be acknowledged. Previously received information about the Kanta Services in the Patient Data Repository and old consents will remain valid and the sharing of data will not be compromised.
How do I inform the client of the information provided about Kanta Services?
A social welfare or healthcare professional can provide the patient or client with the information about Kanta Services
- orally
- in writing by, for example, giving the client a leaflet that provides them information on the use of their data
- Kanta Services and use of client data in healthcare and social welfare services (pdf)
- All language versions of the leaflet can be downloaded from kanta.fi
- through online services.
Find out more about the different versions of the information about Kanta Services and the differences between them
The table shows the versions of the information about Kanta Services that the client may have received via MyKanta.
The latest version of the information about Kanta Services contains information about
- what Kanta Services are
- how data generated in healthcare, social welfare and pharmacies can be shared via Kanta Services
- the consent to data sharing enabling the sharing of your data stored in Kanta and your other data
- how the patient can influence how their data are shared
- on the temporary right of access to information in the region of Uusimaa
| Version | Release date | Status | Changes from previous version |
|---|---|---|---|
| Information about Kanta Services 2.0 | 30/11/2023 | Valid from 30/11/2023 | Possibility to utilise consent to data sharing when sharing data through channels other than Kanta Services. |
| Information about Kanta Services 1.1 (pdf) | 22/11/2022 | Expires 29/11/2023 | Start of the operation of the wellbeing services counties and temporary right of access to information in the region of Uusimaa. |
| Information about Kanta Services 1.0 (pdf) | 1/11/2021 | Valid until 21/11/2022 | First version of the information about Kanta Services. |
Legislation governing data sharing
The Act on the Processing of Client Data in Healthcare and Social Welfare (703/2023) and the Act on Electronic Prescriptions govern the sharing of client and patient data and determine how clients and patients can influence how their data is shared, among other things.
The Acts also define operating methods and models for social welfare, healthcare, and pharmacies.