Social welfare and health care professionals record and store information about you, for example, when you have an appointment with a doctor or manage your social welfare affairs with your designated case worker. You can see this information in MyKanta.
You can also record some information in MyKanta yourself.
In the future, you will also be able to view your appointments for various services in MyKanta. This will become possible within the next few years.
If you are not yet familiar with MyKanta, find out more about MyKanta and learn how to log in securely.
Data in MyKanta
- Visits to health care services
- Laboratory and other test results
- Prescriptions and prescription renewal
- Vaccination data
- Medical certificates and statements
MyKanta also allows you to see critical risk information, referrals, measurements taken by health care services, information about procedures carried out on you, health care and treatment plans, and oral health care information that have been recorded about you.
Data recorded by social welfare services will be added to MyKanta in stages during 2023–2026.
You can submit a living will and an organ donation testament in MyKanta at any time.
You can save your own measurements, such as blood pressure or blood sugar measurements, in MyKanta.
You can determine how your data are used
When you interact with a health care or social services provider or MyKanta for the first time, you will receive a notification explaining how the Kanta Services operate and how recorded data are used. Read about how you can determine how your data are used.
Data belonging to a close friend or relative
You can also see information about a child or another adult through MyKanta if you have the right to manage the other person’s affairs on their behalf. Read more about acting on behalf of another person.
Frequently asked questions about MyKanta
MyKanta displays your data automatically as soon as it has been stored in the Kanta Services by the social welfare and healthcare services.
The delay in storing data varies between organisations. If your data is not displayed in MyKanta, you can ask for more information from the unit responsible for your care.
Your data will be displayed in the service for as long as required according to the statutory retention period.
If your data is not shown, it may be due to one of the following reasons:
- the social welfare or healthcare unit that treated you has not yet joined the Kanta Services
- the health care unit you attended does not currently enter all data recorded in the patient information system into Kanta
- an entry made by a social- and healthcare professional has not been completed yet
- the social welfare and healthcare service provider may have delayed the display of data in MyKanta.
If your data is not shown in MyKanta, please contact the social welfare or healthcare unit that recorded the data.
The Act on the Electronic Processing of Client Data in Health Care and Social Welfare (Client Data Act) obliges public social welfare and health care service providers to store client and patient data in Kanta. For private social welfare and health care service providers, the deployment of Kanta services is mandatory if the service provider has a data system for processing client and patient data.
Clients do not have the legal right to refuse the recording of their data in Kanta Services or their display in MyKanta. Data will be visible in MyKanta as soon as a professional has recorded it in the Kanta Services.
MyKanta shows the information recorded in Kanta Services by social welfare and healthcare services. If you find errors or omissions in your data shown on MyKanta, please contact the social welfare or health care unit that recorded the data.
Social welfare and healthcare services are responsible for recording and correcting data. Each unit has its own procedure for correcting errors in data, which is described, on the unit's website, for example. Further advice is available from the data protection officer or patient ombudsman of the unit in question.