Finnish Health Registries and Medical Coding

Finland boasts as one of the few countries which has truly rich electronic health records: essentially tracking a Finn from birth till death.

In this section, we describe the Finnish health registries and the medical coding that you can use as an analyst to "create" your own phenotypes or further interrogate your analytical curiosities:

• Finnish Health Registries

• Register data pre-processing

• Data Masking/Blurring of Visit Dates

• International and Finnish Health Code Sets

• More information on health code sets

• VNR code mapping to RxNorm

• Register code translation files