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Population coverage of public digital clinics increased to over 4.3 million in May 2025
More than 4.3 million Finns live in an area that offers its own public primary health care digital clinic, i.e. a digital and often chat-based alternative to primary health care in-person services. Public digital clinic operations have expanded rapidly into new areas and already cover nearly 80 % residents of mainland Finland.
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Tip for registry researchers: The service unit of the service provider can be used to distinguish service events in public outpatient care digital clinics from Avohilmo
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We published materials containing travel times for all health centres in Finland by region - see how the new updated travel time-based tool looks like in Päijät-Häme
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Cooperation between SoteDataLab and Päijät-Häme enables research on the effectiveness of digital services with internationally unique data
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Young people and women seemed to benefit most from the Digital Clinic of Eastern Uusimaa in 2023-2024
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Starting a digital clinic operation may take time and require patience, but the data shows emerging positive signs
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We are developing a tool that makes it possible to view travel times to the nearest health services - see what travel times to the health centre look like in Päijät-Häme
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Population coverage of public digital clinics increased to over 4.3 million in May 2025
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For just under one million Finns, the nearest health centre is at risk of closure. Can digital-clinic services replace the health centre?
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Health centres are being closed all over the country – where are the centres being closed?
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Digital-clinic population coverage kept growing in January: a public primary-care digital clinic now available to more than 3.3 million Finns
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Demand for out-of-hours primary-care remote services has been strongest among children, young adults, and women
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The share of public outpatient digital-clinic use is highest among young children, young adults, women, and those at the top of the income distribution
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Do digital clinics boost productivity?
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Digital clinics are reshaping public primary health care