Selected Ecosystem Service Partner

Findata

Social and Health Data Permit Authority Findata issues permits for the secondary use of social and health care register data, collects and combines the data, and improves data protection for individuals.

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Issued permitsResearch project examines young people’s access to psychiatric care: the open dialogue approach is bringing mental health work up to the present dayMunicipalities are improving services for families with children by combining register data – exceptionally extensive data takes grandparents and remote parents into consideration

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About Findata

Findata is the Finnish Social and Health Data Permit Authority, and its activities are based on the Act on the Secondary Use of Health and Social Data (552/2019). Findata promotes secondary use of Finnish social and health care data, facilitates data permit processing, and improves data protection for individuals.

Findata operates in conjunction with the Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare (THL) but separately from the Institute’s other activities. Findata is responsible for processing all applications that concern combined register data from several different public controllers, data from one or more private social or healthcare providers, ordata that are stored in Kanta services. 

Data governed by Findata can be used forall purposes specified in the Act on the Secondary Use of Social and Health Care Data. Access to data sets is subject to a data request and a data utilization plan. Findata may provide anonymized or pseudonymized data for use in a remote access system for a fixed period of time.

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THL