Utilisation of data from Kanta Services

Social welfare and health care professionals may use data stored in Kanta Services as needed in connection with treatment or a service. Kanta allows social welfare and health care customer data to move between professionals and from professionals to citizens. At the moment, statistics are only available on the utilisation of health care patient data. Statistics on the utilisation of social welfare data will be added to the page later. 

Over the past six years, the number of patient data searches in the Kanta Services has increased tenfold. On average, health care professionals use Kanta Services to retrieve patient data from another organisation 5,8 million times a month. They carried out 10 million searches of their organisation’s own register per month.

Purpose of searches

Professionals in the wellbeing services counties search their own register for information when viewing the data of the residents of the wellbeing services county at a health centre in connection with treatment.

Private and public healthcare providers search for data in another organisation’s registers when they carry out a search in each other’s registers or in another wellbeing services county.

Pre-searches are searches made in advance, and this means that the patient's data has been retrieved in advance in the patient information system from the Kanta Services into the information system for the healthcare professional.

An emergency search can be carried out if required to treat the client in an emergency.

Combined search means, among other things, the combination of the above types of searches. A combined search is a simpler way to use the patient information system for retrieving data from the Kanta Services. The data may include information from their own register or data generated by another organisation. Combined search is gradually replacing other retrieval methods in the Kanta Services. 

When searching for key health data, the professional has access to a summary of the patient's key health data, such as diagnoses and procedures.