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.
Watch a video where Iida explains how young people can use MyKanta (youtube.com, in Finnish)..
What is MyKanta?
MyKanta shows information recorded about you after you have attended an appointment with health care or social welfare services, or visited a pharmacy. 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
- confirm receipt of information about Kanta services
- give consent to data sharing
- issue denials of consent
- submit a living will or an organ donation testament.
Your decision-making ability will be assessed each time you attend an appointment with social welfare or health care services. For this reason, you will not be able to e.g. give your consent to data sharing in MyKanta yourself.
As an adult, you can give another adult, such as a parent or other loved one, the authority to act 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 authorise another adult, they will have access to all of your health information. This also applies to information that you, as a minor with decision-making capacity, previously prohibited your guardian from seeing. However, another adult cannot access on your behalf your organ donation testament, living will, or wellbeing data stored in MyKanta.
Your guardian may renew your prescription in MyKanta if the prescription information is visible to your guardian and
- medication has already been dispensed for the prescription
- the prescription has not expired
- there is no renewal prohibition on the prescription.
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 MyKanta together with your guardian. Your guardian can use their own credentials when using MyKanta on your behalf. Your guardian will mostly see the same information as you.
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.
If you wish, you can set denials of consent, i.e. limit access to your data so that they are not visible to your guardian. You can impose such a denial of consent when interacting with a social welfare or health care professional if they deem you to be capable of making independent decisions.
The assessment will be made separately at each appointment, and you can't set a denial of consent that would prevent your guardiang from seeing all of your information.
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 access the data in their local data files through their client or patient information system. They cannot access your data through MyKanta.
Professionals are only allowed to access your data in connection with care given to you, and only to such an extent as is needed in order to provide the care.
If you or your guardian have given consent for your data to be shared between different service providers, such as wellbeing services counties, the professional may also see information about you that has been recorded elsewhere. This may be the case if you move to another wellbeing services county due to your studies, for example, or if you use both public and private social welfare and health care services.
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.
Your guardian will not be able to see any of your information in MyKanta after you turn 18.
You can contact the health care unit you attended to see if your information was disclosed to your guardian. MyKanta is under development, and in the future, you will be able to check your visit details to see whether your information was disclosed to your guardian.
Guardians are usually able to view information about a child under 10 years of age in MyKanta. Gradually, guardians will also be able to view information about children over the age of 10. Information about 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 by your health care service provider. However, your guardian will not see any information that was stored about you after you turned 10 years old before these required changes are made. Of old data, i.e., data that was stored prior to 1 August 2016, only data that was recorded about you before you turned 10 years of age will be shown.
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.