Your client and patient data is stored in Kanta Services when you use social welfare and health care. Kanta Services enable the sharing of your data between professionals attending to your care, for example, in various wellbeing services counties, provided you have given your consent to the sharing of your data.
Whenever there are changes to the use of your data, you will receive a new notification, i.e. information about Kanta Services containing key facts about them and the use of your data. A new notification will be issued as necessary whenever changes take place.
You will receive a new, updated notification on the use of your data after 30 November 2023. This is because the consent to data sharing will be changed. In the future, the consent to data sharing will enable the sharing of both your data stored in Kanta and your other data. If you have given your consent to data sharing previously, we recommend that you update it in MyKanta. This way your consent to data sharing will enable the sharing of data that is not in Kanta.
Read more about the consent to data sharing.
If you have not yet received the latest notification on the use of your data, i.e. information about Kanta Services, it will open for you to read in MyKanta as soon as you log in.
Read the notification and confirm receipt by ticking the box at the end. After this, you can continue to use MyKanta as usual.
You can check in MyKanta if you have confirmed the receipt of the notification on the use of your data. You can see the date on which it was confirmed under Management of Data Use. The confirmation will also be shown in MyKanta if you received the information about Kanta Services in person during a health care appointment. The new Kanta notification will be available during a health care appointment from January 2024.
What happens when you confirm receipt of information about Kanta Services?
After confirming the receipt of information about Kanta Services,
- you can give your consent to the sharing of your data stored therein with other wellbeing services counties and between public and private health care providers in connection with your treatment
- you can update your previously given consent so that your data can be disclosed both via Kanta Services and otherwise. Read more about consent to sharing patient data.
- you can limit the use of your data by setting up denials of consent to data sharing
- your patient data will be available in public health care throughout the region of Uusimaa as necessary.
If you are of legal age or acting on behalf of someone else, you can continue to use MyKanta once you have confirmed the receipt of information about Kanta Services. Minors and persons with the right to access information can access MyKanta even if the receipt of new Kanta information has not been confirmed.
Read more about Kanta Services and how you can manage the use of your data
You can also read the information texts in MyKanta in PDF format:
The old versions of the information about Kanta Services are also available here: