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Health care in Finland

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Main article: Finland

Digitalization

2019: Recipes in electronic form only

By mid-2019, digital technologies in the Finnish health care system had achieved a high degree of development. For example, all recipes in the country are electronic, and paper is allowed only in exceptional cases, for example, when power is cut.

By mid-2019, digital technologies in the Finnish health care system had achieved a high degree of development

Finland became one of the first countries in Europe to systematically introduce electronic prescriptions in 2010. Recent data show that Finnish doctors issue about 30 million digital prescriptions annually. By 2022, digital prescriptions will be complemented by a national drug list that will be open to all patients. It will list all drugs taken by the patient, which will simplify the control of prescriptions.

2016: Start of development of Finland's Unified Healthcare IT System

Main article: Finland's Unified Healthcare IT System

2013: Launch of the National Patient Data Warehouse and My Kanta Portal

In 2013, the National Patient Data Repository was commissioned. It collects medical documents of all hospitals and outpatient clinics, and this data is available to both medical professionals and the patients themselves. In 2018, it was supplemented by a data warehouse for social services.

Thanks to the storage of digital data, Finnish citizens have the opportunity to transfer medical certificates necessary for obtaining a driver's license directly from one department to another. Another new service using patient data storage is the image processing structure. Patients access individual digital data through the My Kanta portal, which has become very popular in Finland. By 2019, about 50% of all citizens aged 18 to 65 have gained access to personal medical data on the portal, and even 37% of elderly citizens check their medical data online. These numbers are much higher than in other European countries[1]

Disease statistics

HIV/AIDS

Data for 2017

Depression

2019: Chronic depression affects 8.8% of the population aged 15 + years

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Процент population + years of age who reported "suffering from chronic depression" in 2019

Maternity leave

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Число недель оплачиваемого maternity leave countries around the world for 2021

Chronicle

2020: Duration of guaranteed paid sick leave 6 months or more

Data as of September 1, 2020

2018: 18.3% of women smoke tobacco

2018 data

Notes

  1. [1]Digital Finland: Towards an ecosystem of health and wellbeing apps