MicrosoftLive sourceEvidence: Medium50/100

Kanta-Häme Integrates Data for Smarter Social and Healthcare Services

Kanta-Häme wellbeing services county in Finland faced critical challenges associated with an aging population, increasing healthcare needs, limited workforce, and reducing funding. To address these, Kanta-Häme, in partnership with Tietoevry Care, delivered a modern data lake solution based on Microsoft Azure in only six months. The platform integrates social and healthcare data from various sources, ensuring secure, centralized management and flexible expansion as requirements change. The initiative enables higher data quality, supports data-driven decision-making, paves the way for improved customer care, and enhances national health data analytics while allowing the deployment of advanced AI for service optimization.

Industry
Healthcare
Location
Finland
Published
May 2025

Reported outcomes

Strategic outcomes

Scale & capacityBuilt a centralized healthcare data platformBetter decisions & insightEnabled data-driven managementCustomer experience & trustImproved customer care pathsNew product / capabilityEnabled advanced AI for service optimization
Why do we believe this deployment?Customer identity, provider attribution, maturity, and source checks
Customer
Kanta-Häme Wellbeing Services County
Provider
Microsoft
Maturity
Unknown
Linked source
news.microsoft.com

No explicit deployment-stage evidence found.

Customer identity supportedSource describes one deploymentMaturity evidence evaluated

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Use case focus

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  • 1healthcare data integration
  • 2data-driven management
  • 3AI-powered analytics
  • Aging population and growing demand for care in the region.
  • Shrinking healthcare workforce.
  • Decreasing funding and need for efficiency.
  • Fragmented and siloed data reducing effectiveness of care provision.
  • Built a scalable Azure-based data platform to centralize healthcare and social services data.
  • Enabled fast development and deployment with high security and data quality.
  • Partnered with Tietoevry Care for integration and software adaptation.
  • Setup for AI-powered analytics and flexible further enhancements.
Technologies
  • Delivered the new data platform and first integrations in just six months.
  • Enabled data-driven management and improved customer care paths.
  • Enhanced data quality and facilitated national healthcare analytics.
  • Achieved cost savings and improved resource efficiency.
Architecture

A centralized, secure data lake built on Microsoft Azure integrates social and healthcare data from multiple sources. Flexible architecture allows for additional services and AI-powered analytics, supporting management and care delivery workflows.

Sources & evidence1
Evidence: Medium50/100Evidence strength
  • Customer explicitly identified
  • Independent source available
  • Technical implementation details available
  • Recent evidence check available
  • Last evidence check: Jun 1, 2026.
Live sourceStill referenced

The case's original source is still reachable.

  • Cited source last checked Jun 1, 2026 — ok (0/1 broken).

Measures whether this deployment's public evidence persists — not whether the system is still in production.

Type: News ArticlePublished: May 14, 2025Publisher: news.microsoft.comEvidence: SecondaryConfidence: Low

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