What’s new

Choosehealthcare.fi will celebrate its fourth anniversary at the beginning of October in the midst of work. These four years have involved non-stop development of the site including revamping the contents, structure and look together with our clients. Client feedback has also played a crucial role in our next renewal: Choosehealthcare.fi will change its name next […]

Extensive statistical information on the cross-border health care in 2018 compiled by the Contact Point for Cross-Border Healthcare and Kela have been completed. You can view the statistics via the contact point’s Slideshare account. The statistics show that the costs paid by customers for necessary treatment in the EU area decreased in comparison to the […]

The use of electronic prescriptions in EU and EEA countries has been expanded with Croatia. Finnish electronic prescriptions are now also valid in Estonia and Croatia. Your prescription will work in Estonia and Croatia once you have activated your permission for the service in the My Kanta service. You can give consent to individual countries […]

Content about choosing a health centre, hospital and other health services, published on the Choosehealthcare.fi website, will be moved to the Suomi.fi online service. From now on, the Choosehealthcare.fi site will focus on giving guidance on the international aspects of healthcare. By moving the information, customer matters can be handled in a more streamlined fashion. […]

Are you planning to go backpacking or travelling around the world for more than six months? Are you spending your retirement days in Spain in the winter season? Please note that the legislation on your right to receive residence-based social security benefits from Finland changed in early April. What does this social security reform mean […]

Since the beginning of 2019, Finnish electronic prescriptions have been valid in Estonia. In practice, you can buy medicines in Estonia with an electronic prescription that your doctor wrote in Finland. This means that you do not need a printed “medical prescription for purchasing medication abroad” prescription in Estonia that you need in other EU and […]

The statistical information on cross-border health care collected by the Contact Point for Cross-border Health Care and Kela for 2017 demonstrate that there were both rises and falls in the costs and reimbursements of international health care. The latest statistical information is now available at contact point’s Slideshare channel. The costs and reimbursements of necessary […]

Each EU country has at least one contact point for cross-border health care, which provides information about the health services of the country or region and using the services. The contact points offer information on their website, and most also help customers through e-mail and telephone. Interested in health services in Sweden? Ask the Swedish […]

The popular country-specific information on the choosehealthcare.fi website has been renewed. Information available on our website regarding the use of health care services in EU and EEA countries and Switzerland has now been grouped even more clearly than before. Country-specific information is particularly helpful, when you suddenly fall ill abroad and are in need of treatment […]

According to the recent study by ANEC, the European consumer voice in standardisation, patients are not keen to seek treatment in another EU country and do not know their rights. Of the 1,656 EU citizen surveyed by ANEC, 37% had received unplanned medical treatment in another EU country, but only 4% had travelled abroad specifically […]