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Priorities for the Kanta Services in 2025 have been confirmed

Notice - Professionals Written on 17.12.2024 All notices

The development of the Kanta Services improves the continuity of care and social welfare and healthcare services, and strengthens the national knowledge base. The deployment of new Kanta functionalities supports the continuity of care and services in many ways.

Kela and the Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare (THL) have published the 2025 priorities for the development and deployment of the Kanta Services.  

The Kanta Services are increasingly better at supporting professionals’ daily work

The development of the Kanta Services in 2025 will support the continuity of care and social welfare and healthcare services, and strengthen the national knowledge base for the needs of research and knowledge-based management. The quality and usefulness of the information stored in the Kanta Services will be improved. The development work also takes into account the requirements of the European Health Data Space (EHDS) regulation. 

“New data structures can be used to support a single entry recorded by a professional so that the entry meets national statistics requirements while also accumulating valuable information for research purposes,” says Leading Expert Päivi Achté at THL. 

The goal is for the Kanta Services to be increasingly supportive of social welfare and healthcare professionals’ operational work. Kanta’s technical interfaces will be modernised in phases. The interfaces increasingly utilise the international HL7 FHIR standard to improve system interoperability.  

“The development of regional client and patient information systems will be made easier, and our aim is to provide professionals with more and more real-time information in a more accessible form to improve the quality of customers’ services and result in quicker treatment decisions,” says Pirjo Vuorikallas, Development Manager at Kela.   

Points of focus in development work for the Kanta Services for supporting the continuity of care and services in 2025: 

  • The Kanta medication list will ensure greater visibility of pharmacotherapy to professionals and citizens  
  • The dissemination of social welfare and healthcare data to other actors through the query and intermediary service to help digitise the flow of information and remove any obstacles 
  • The development of a uniform national data structure required to record and communicate information about customers’ functional capacity  
  • The promotion of client data sharing across sector boundaries in social welfare and healthcare services  
  • The publication of the MyKanta mobile application and further development of the MyKanta service 
  • The further development of an interface built for wellbeing apps in order to utilise the patient data in the Kanta Services in various wellbeing apps 
  • The development of new information products such as reports, statistics and indicators to support the secondary use of data and knowledge-based management. 

Deployment promotes the monitoring of continuity of care

In 2025, there will be new functionalities in Kanta available for deployment to support the continuity of patient care in particular. New functionalities include a structured document for assessing the need for treatment, and the integration of healthcare appointment information into Kanta.  

The structured document for assessing the need for treatment helps to create a smoother and more consistent patient care pathway, no matter where the customer is treated. In the future, it will also reduce healthcare work, for example, if information required to follow national treatment queues can be obtained directly through Kanta.  

The Patient Data Repository of the Kanta Services now offers the ability to save and retrieve healthcare appointment information. Finding appointment information in Kanta makes it easier to manage affairs and supports the continuity of care. It is easy for the customer to check, cancel or reschedule their appointments, and professionals get a better picture of the customer’s overall situation.  

Other priorities for deployment in 2025: 

  • Implementation of structured dosage of prescriptions 
  • Deployment of the Client Data Repository for Social Welfare Services compliant with the statutory obligation to join Kanta Services 
  • Utilisation of summaries of key health data in the Patient Data Repository; and 
  • The sharing of data between the private and public sector using Kanta Services in outsourcing service situations.     

Social welfare and healthcare actors should utilise the priorities in their own planning  

'Social welfare and healthcare organisations and developers of information systems should consider the development and deployment priorities in their own planning. The topics of focus will be covered in functionality development workshops in 2025. Active feedback is desired from stakeholders on the definitions and other documents sent for commentary rounds. 

In many of the functionalities, the statutory deadline for deployment priorities will take effect no later than 2026. Private social welfare and healthcare services are also obligated to deploy the Kanta Services. The storing of radiologist images in Kanta should also be implemented in private and public healthcare services. 

Kela and THL support and direct social welfare and healthcare organisations in the deployment of the Kanta Services by, among other things, organising deployment support and training sessions, and by producing online courses available to professionals.  

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