Consent to data sharing will be updated – everyone will receive a notification of the change in MyKanta or from health care services
From now on, consent to data sharing will enable data about you that is recorded on paper, for example, to be shared in addition to the information available in Kanta when visiting health care services. This change will be described in a notification that users can receive in MyKanta from 30 November 2023 onwards.
If you have given consent to data sharing, your data will be fully available to the professionals caring for you and handling your matters, regardless of where the data was recorded. Your consent to data sharing enables your data to be shared, for example, between wellbeing services counties or between public and private health care providers. The majority of citizens have given their consent to patient data sharing.
Your client and patient data are stored in Kanta Services when you use social welfare and health care services. Until now, consent to data sharing enabled the information in Kanta to be shared between the different parties providing your care. In the future, consent to data sharing will also enable the sharing of data that is not in Kanta. This includes, for example, information about you that is recorded on paper.
The reform of the consent to data sharing is based on the Client Data Act. The Act is being reformed, and the new act aims to ensure that in the future, health care service providers will not need to request separate consent to data sharing in order to share data. In the future, social welfare data will also be shared with singular consent to data sharing.
You can now update the consent to data sharing you have given previously
If you gave your consent to patient data sharing in or prior to 2023, we recommend that you update it. The updated consent to data sharing enables data other than those stored in Kanta to be shared between different actors once the necessary changes have been made to health care information systems.
If you do not update the consent to data sharing, the consent you gave previously will remain valid. It will enable the data stored about you in Kanta to be shared as before.
Giving and updating your consent to data sharing is voluntary. You can handle matters regarding your consent to data sharing conveniently in MyKanta. If you do not use MyKanta, in the future you will also be able to update your consent to data sharing when you visit health care services.
Please read and acknowledge the notification in MyKanta informing you of the use of your data
Due to the renewal of the consent to data sharing, everyone will receive a notification in MyKanta informing them about the Kanta Services and the use of data in social welfare and health care services. This notification is titled ‘Information about the Kanta Services’. The law states that a new notification must be issued whenever there are changes to the use of data.
When you visit MyKanta for the first time after 30 November 2023, the latest information about the Kanta Services will open for you to read in a new browser window after you have logged in. If you do not use MyKanta, you will receive information corresponding to the MyKanta notification when you next visit health care services.
You can update your consent to data sharing or grant it for the first time once you have acknowledged the notification of the use of your data in MyKanta or received corresponding information from health care services.
Gradually, information will also be shared in social welfare services
It is now also possible to grant consent to data sharing in MyKanta for client data in social welfare services. This is a different consent to data sharing than the consent to patient data sharing used in health care. Consent to data sharing in social welfare services enables the sharing of your client data stored in Kanta and your other client data between different social welfare operators once the social welfare operators make the necessary changes to their information systems.