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You can subscribe to the Kanta newsletter via this link: Kanta services newsletter – Professionals – Kanta.fi. The Kanta newsletter contains current news and information on digitalisation and data management in the healthcare and social welfare sector.
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The basic course on documentation in social welfare, produced by the Kansa-koulu project, is available electronically: eOppiva – Basic course on documentation. THL will continue to maintain the course.
In addition, THL has a website which provides a comprehensive overview of structured documentation. Structured documentation means that documentation is based on uniform data structures. You can find many examples here: THL – Structured documentation practices.
None of the entries made now will be visible in the client’s MyKanta. More information about MyKanta is available, for example, at Kanta forum, with MyKanta as a topic: Social welfare services’ Kanta forum.
The forum covers current issues related to the implementation and use of the client data repository for social welfare services.
No, they are not. The Kanta services are a range of digital services that store citizens’ healthcare and social welfare data. The Kanta services are a nationwide solution covering the whole of Finland. The Kanta system includes the patient and social welfare client data repositories, the image data repository and the prescription service.
MyKanta is a nationwide online service where clients can view their own healthcare and social welfare data. In principle, MyKanta displays all the data stored in Kanta. Professionals can limit the information a client can see in MyKanta for a specific, justified reason.
Read more: What are Kanta services?
The documentation of social welfare client data in the Kanta client data repository will start at the same time on 1 September 2026 for all service tasks. At the same time, private service providers will also start storing client data under our register.
The City of Helsinki and the Wellbeing Services County of Vantaa and Kerava have decided that we will not introduce parallel connectivity, so you will not be able to adopt the system we use. You will have to join either with your own direct connection or with another operator using the joint connection model. You can find out more about the Kanta connection models here.
Helsinki has made the definitions and will finalise them in the near future (e.g. the latest THL bulletins on the documents to be provided to all). The aim could be to make an announcement by the end of November.
VAKE has started defining the documents and the aim is to complete the work by January 2026.
In principle, all entries will be shown to the client in MyKanta unless there is a need to delay or permanently conceal them based on the law.
Kanta services handbook for social welfare operators – Kanta services handbook for social welfare operators – My desktop Section 5.3.1
We cannot answer whether the saving is done automatically or whether it requires some manual intervention on your system. The way in which client data is saved in Kanta and MyKanta depends on the information system you are using.
In social welfare, depending on the unit and the service, there may be a need to record and store patient data in the patient data repository.
Work on definitions related to patient data generated in social welfare has started. Its legal deadline is 1 March 2027 and it is not directly included in this Kanta introduction project, but we will monitor its progress.
All client data must be stored in Kanta (the social welfare client data repository). However, if you are referring to the MyKanta view that is visible to the client themselves, guidelines for documentation and data display in MyKanta for child welfare and other services for people under 18 will be drawn up separately and we will inform you about this later.
We do not fully understand the question. How does the possible lack of a service decision affect the need to record client data? However, to answer the question, we would like to clarify that day activities have been removed from the classification of social services and that, when it comes to support services, a service that promotes or supports inclusion and social rehabilitation is one where the obligation to document is determined on a case-by-case basis. For example, if a service that promotes or supports inclusion and social rehabilitation is documented in our own operations, private service providers must also do so, because the client must also be in the same position in terms of documentation, regardless of whether the service is provided by us or as a purchased service.
This is being clarified by VAKE’s architecture department.
In such a situation, a notification should be made by telephone, e.g. to the responsible worker or emergency services, or electronically via Maisa. The procedure therefore remains unchanged.
Data will be provided according to current practices until 31 August 2026. For closed client relationships, data must be provided in accordance with the currently agreed practices.
We will provide more detailed information closer to the transition date for the transfer of client data that are still part of your services on 1 September 2026, i.e. for client relationships that extend beyond the transition period.
Client data must be stored in the Kanta client data repository. Documentation is mandatory, and there is no need to worry about congestion in Kanta 🙂. In addition, in principle, all entries will be shown to the client in MyKanta unless there is a need to delay or permanently not show them based on the law.
As a general rule, the entries are visible to the guardians acting on behalf of a child, unless there is a specific reason for restriction. The recording of entries for services for persons under 18 and the instructions for data display in MyKanta will be drawn up separately and we will inform you about this later.
Each social welfare professional has only one professional ID card, which indicates that the professional has completed a specific qualification required by Valvira. With that professional ID card, you can perform a Kanta search and save the data in Kanta in the register of any wellbeing services county to whose clients you provide services.
We do not fully understand the question. What do you mean by service provider here? As we understand it, a family carer is a service provider, and if they provide professional family care, the entries must be saved in Kanta in accordance with the Act on the Electronic Processing of Client Data in Healthcare and Social Welfare and, in principle, displayed in MyKanta.
Do client information systems communicate with the Kanta service so that the organiser’s data/entries are transferred to the client information system used by the service provider (e.g. Nappula)? Or do you have to separately visit the Kanta platform to read the organiser’s data?
Client information systems do not automatically work in such a way that the service organiser’s entries are transferred via the Kanta service to your system. The register access right allows you to retrieve from the client data repository of the Kanta service the relevant client data necessary for the implementation of the service agreed with the service organiser. We cannot comment on how your information system will implement these functionalities. We direct you to ask this of your own system provider or relevant professional.
Yes. At the moment, this is how it is defined by the THL. THL has identified the need to define the implementation of entry regarding the client’s daily life in housing services. Any changes will be announced after 2027.
All cards are ordered through the registration points. The registration points are listed here.
The obligation to join Kanta does not apply to private individuals, self-employed persons or small service providers who do not use an electronic client information system. As regards the transmission of client data and performance data by these operators, we advise you to confirm this with the person in charge of the service in VAKE or Helsinki.
We advise you to contact your system provider to enquire about their readiness to join Kanta and to ask them for guidance on what actions you need to take.
Generally speaking, the answer is that the electronic client information system must be made Kanta-compatible and the system must have a connection to the Kanta service. We are unable to state whether the client entries recorded and saved are automatically transferred to Kanta or whether this requires a professional to perform some action within the system; you should ask your system provider about this.