Helsinki · Independent EditorialAutumn 2026Issue N° 42
Issue N° 42 · Autumn 2026

Digital Health & Everyday Healthcare in Finland.

Independent articles about Omakanta, digital health records, electronic prescriptions, patient services, preventive healthcare and healthy living.

Reading time · 8 articles  ·  In this issue
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Mental Wellbeing

Walking as Medicine, Forest as Room

The literature on forest walking has grown more careful in recent years. What holds up, and what doesn't, when you actually try to write a prescription for a birch grove.

Mikael Rantanen · 7 min read
Nutrition

The Nordic Kitchen in November

Root vegetables, rye, and the long simmer. A month of seasonal cooking that leans on tradition without pretending the freezer doesn't exist.

Sanni Virtanen · 6 min read
Healthy Ageing

Long Lives, Kept Meaningfully

The design of Finnish ageing services has shifted from institutions to homes. What that means for families, and for the quieter question of what a long life is for.

Elina Koskinen · 10 min read
Mental Wellbeing

The Everyday Mental Weather

Not every difficult afternoon needs a diagnosis. A guide to reading, and living with, the ordinary weather of the mind.

Kaisa Nieminen · 8 min read
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"The next decade of Finnish healthcare will not be defined by dramatic technology, but by the quiet integration of small tools into ordinary lives."

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