Digital Workforce and Atostek Automate Finland’s Largest Kanta Archiving Project in North Ostrobothnia and Lapland, Valued at Over €4,6 M

The wellbeing services counties of North Ostrobothnia and Lapland have selected a solution jointly developed by Digital Workforce and Atostek to automate the archiving of data from their legacy electronic patient record (EPR) systems. The contract covers the archiving of 144 databases from twelve EPR systems, making it Finland’s largest Kanta archiving project.  

Istekki will provide the solution to both counties through a software-as-a-service (SaaS) model, with Digital Workforce and Atostek executing the work. The combined value of agreements exceeds €4,6 million. 

The solution automates the extraction, conversion, and transfer of customer and patient data, regardless of the source system. It has already been used in more than half of Finland’s wellbeing services counties. 

The archiving will be completed over the next four years. Once the data is archived, the counties can retire their legacy systems, reducing the costs and administrative workload of maintaining multiple systems. 

 
Serving a combined population of nearly 1,2 million 

North Ostrobothnia and Lapland provide health and social care services to nearly 1,2 million people, underscoring the scale of the archiving project. 

“Careful planning and experienced partners are essential to managing the workload and costs of a project this size. The selected service will help us oversee the migration, maintain consistent quality, and minimize demands on our staff,” says Kimmo Savela, Project Manager at the wellbeing services counties of North Ostrobothnia and Lapland. 

“Delivering a SaaS-based archiving service at this scale requires expertise in both automation technology and Kanta’s archiving requirements. By combining Digital Workforce’s and Atostek’s expertise, Istekki can deliver a reliable service to its customer-owners,” says Ari-Pekka Häyrynen, Business Manager at Istekki. 

“Digital Workforce combines strong automation expertise with extensive experience supporting Finland’s wellbeing services counties through critical health and social care system transitions. Our robotic process automation extracts data flexibly from different source systems, after which the data is converted and transferred to the Kanta archive using Atostek’s ERA platform. We have completed more Kanta archiving projects than any other provider in Finland. Efficient archiving protects healthcare professionals’ time, streamlines their work and enables organizations to retire legacy systems and reduce maintenance costs,” says Juha Nieminen, Chief Growth Officer, Global Healthcare at Digital Workforce.  
 
“Atostek ERA offers the broadest range of functionality for processing Kanta data in Finland. Over the past year, it has become the country’s largest and most widely used Kanta integration platform by volume. ERA was developed specifically for health and social care data management. By combining the platform with robotic process automation, we can archive data from legacy systems efficiently and at scale,” says Miika Parvio, Business Director of ERA Services at Atostek. 
 

Further information 

Marja Heikkinen 
Key Account Manager, Digital Workforce 
marja.heikkinen@digitalworkforce.com 
 
Sampo Ojala, Account Manager, Atostek Oy 
sampo.ojala@atostek.com