Kanta Personal Health Record (Omatietovaranto)

Kanta Personal Health Record (Kanta PHR) is a national Kanta service in which users can save their wellbeing data. The service was deployed for the first-phase production use in spring 2018.

Anyone can develop a new wellbeing application that utilises Kanta PHR. The applications can be server-based or mobile applications. Their users may consist of citizens, professionals, or both. For wellbeing application suppliers, Kanta PHR offers the interfaces and the open national accepted data content based on the HL7 FHIR standard. The FHIR Rest API interfaces are specified in the Capability Statement description. The data content is developed in cooperation with various actors.

Application developers can integrate their own application in the sandbox environments of Kanta PHR for independent testing. Further information: Sandbox environments.

Further information about the service and the latest updates are available on the Kanta PHR page.

Kanta Prescription Centre FHIR Interface

Prescription centre is a national Kanta service in which citizens' electronic prescriptions and electronic dispensations are saved. Main interfaces in production are based on HL7 V3 Medical Records messaging and HL7 V3 CDA R2 documents. For metadata search of the prescriptions, a search operation has been developed based on FHIR custom operations and FHIR Medication*-resources. The FHIR interface includes only metadata of the prescription, although the data content of the metadata includes a large amount of information of the actual prescription.

For this interface there is no open Sandbox environment available. The interface can be used only through the Kanta Client testing environment and needs joining to this environment (instructions in Finnish).

Other Kanta FHIR Interfaces in the Future

In the future, there is a plan to offer data of the Kanta services in FHIR format. This data can be, for example, diagnoses (problems), lab results, and vital signs from the Patient data archive service.

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