Only you, the social welfare and healthcare professionals caring for you and, in certain cases, your guardians, can see the data in MyKanta.
Are you worried about something to do with your health? Don’t hesitate to speak to your parents or guardians or, for example, to your school nurse. They may be able to give you support and help you.
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See your health data in MyKanta
In MyKanta you can see:
- prescriptions for medicines prescribed for you
- entries made by social welfare and healthcare professionals with regard to your care
- your laboratory tests and X-ray examinations
- your vaccination data.
Not all of the oldest social welfare and healthcare appointments have necessarily been recorded in MyKanta.
You can log in to MyKanta through the pages of this online service from the Log in to MyKanta button in the upper right-hand corner. To use MyKanta, you need a Finnish personal identity code, as well as online bank access codes, mobile ID or an electronic identity card.
Further information about the mobile ID is available from your mobile operator, and you can ask your bank about issues related to online banking codes.
Data in MyKanta is private
Your data in MyKanta cannot be seen by anyone who is not attending to your health care. For example, a teacher cannot access your data in MyKanta. Social welfare and healthcare professionals are always bound by professional secrecy in matters related to you, i.e. they will not disclose your data to others.
Parents or guardians will also be able to act on your behalf in MyKanta
When you have an appointment with a doctor or other social welfare or healthcare professional, they will assess whether you are capable of making your own decisions with regard to your care and other matters without the help of a parent or guardian. This assessment is carried out separately at every appointment.
The decision-making capacity depends on many things, such as
- age
- reason for the appointment
- care plan.
If the treating person assesses that you are capable of making decisions, you can choose whether your parents or guardians will see your data in MyKanta. If the assessment indicates that you are not capable of making your own decisions on your care, your parents or guardians will also be able to see your data in MyKanta.
The data of a child over the age of 10 will be visible to the guardian once the necessary modifications to the patient information systems have been carried out in the healthcare organisations. Guardians will be able to access the MyKanta data of children under 10 years of age.
A guardian will be able to access the data concerning child under 10 years of age.
Timetable
The change in accessing the data of a child over the age of 10 has been introduced in several municipalities and at various treatment centres. You can ask your healthcare or social services provider when your data will be accessible in MyKanta.
