About your health data that is shared

You have the right to access health data about you that is shared electronically within the health sector. You can see what data has been recorded, check who has viewed the data, and restrict who has access to the data.

How health data about you is shared 

Health data is shared electronically within the health service and made available to authorised healthcare professionals when they need to view relevant information about your health. For example, if you are admitted to a hospital that you have never been to before, healthcare professionals will quickly be able to look up important information about your health. This can help ensure that you receive the right treatment more quickly if you become acutely ill.   

All residents of Norway have national health data. This also applies to children, and refugees when they are issued with a D-number.   

When you receive healthcare, information relating to your health and treatment will be entered in your medical records at the place where you are treated. Documents in hospital medical records can be shared with others. This means that, if you subsequently receive treatment somewhere else, documents in your medical records may be made available to healthcare professionals. Each hospital will determine which documents to share.

Sharing via Summary Care Record and Prescription Intermediary 

Your health data is shared via the Summary Care Record and Prescription Intermediary. The Summary Care Record is a national health system that shares information with systems used by healthcare professionals. The Prescription Intermediary is a national database for prescriptions used by healthcare professionals and pharmacies.  

The Norwegian Directorate of Health is the data controller for the Summary Care Record and the Prescription Intermediary. This means that the Directorate is responsible for ensuring that your data is processed in a manner that safeguards your privacy. If you have any questions about the data that is stored about you beyond what you can see in the service, please contact the Directorate of Health.

View your health data

You need to be logged in to view your health data. It is important that you check that the data that has been recorded is correct and that you report any errors. You can also make your own entries. Ensuring that data is correct is important in case you become acutely ill.

Log in and view your health data

The following health data related to you is shared:

  • Critical information is information about you that healthcare professionals will need to be aware of in an emergency situation. Such health data can help healthcare professionals make better decisions in relation to medical investigations, treatment and monitoring at hospital.

  • Healthcare professionals can see what diseases you have been vaccinated against and when the vaccine was administered.  

    Find out more about your vaccinations 

  • You can generate a digital organ donor card that will be available to healthcare professionals. You can also enter one or two people who are aware of your views on organ donation. These people could be family members, friends, colleagues, your GP or neighbours and must be over the age of 18. 

    Read more about the organ donor card 

  • The following data relating to prescriptions and medications is available to healthcare professionals:  

    • Medications that you have been given on prescription through Norwegian pharmacies  
    • Nutrition and consumables  
    • List of your valid prescriptions  

    The following data is not shared:  

    • Medications you have purchased without a prescription  
    • Medications you have received at out-of-hours medical services, hospitals or nursing homes  
    • Medications you have purchased abroad  
    • Prescription medications issued by a pharmacy before national sharing came into effect.

    Read more about your prescriptions

  • Test results from the national test results service are shared within the health sector. This also applies to the results of selected tests and medical investigations carried out at hospitals within the Western Norway Regional Health Authority (Helse Vest).  

    Coronavirus (COVID-19) test results are no longer made available to healthcare professionals. If you have previously received positive coronavirus test results, these will be available in the Norwegian Surveillance System for Communicable Diseases (MSIS) on Helsenorge. You can find MSIS under Health Registers.  

  • Healthcare professionals can view your medical records from hospitals.

  • You can find information about your contact with hospitals and the specialist health service. Appointment histories can also include appointments with specialists, such as dermatologists or cardiologists.  

    Contact refers to the time and place of the investigations and treatments via the specialist health service, such as hospitals. This includes outpatient appointments and hospital admissions.  

    Information relating to your appointment history dates back as far as 01/01/2008. It may take four weeks or more after your hospital appointment until the information is made available on Helsenorge.

  • The Treatment Plan service is currently being tested and is available only to a small number of patients. The Treatment Plan service will provide a comprehensive overview of your treatment and will be made available to healthcare professionals.

  • The Digital Health Card for Pregnant Women service is currently being tested and is available only to a small number of patients. The information that is recorded on the digital health card will be made available to healthcare professionals.

Who has access to view health data? 

Only authorised healthcare professionals who require relevant data can access your health data when you attend treatment. Healthcare professionals working at, for example, a hospital, GP surgery, out-of-hours medical service or municipal health and social care services, will be able to access your health data when managing your treatment.

Usage log 

You can check who has viewed your health data. The log will state the date, name, event, type of data and the reason why your health data was accessed. It will take a week from the time at which someone accesses your health data until you can see who has accessed the data.

Suspected cases of snooping 

If you suspect that someone has viewed your health data without a relevant reason, you need to contact the treatment centre (hospital or GP surgery) or the local authority they work at. If you are not satisfied with the explanation you get from the treatment centre, you can appeal to the County Governor.  

When a doctor writes a prescription, this is recorded in the log. The doctor will look at your health data to check whether you have had any reactions to drugs in the past or to check for any other important information of relevance to the drugs you will be taking.

How to configure access to health data

You can restrict healthcare professionals’ access to view your health data. You can also remove your own access to data obtained from the Summary Care Record on Helsenorge or opt out of having a Summary Care Record. For those who have been selected to take part in the Treatment Plan or Digital Health Card for Pregnant Women trials, you can also give or withdraw consent to participate in the trial.  

Settings to restrict access 

You can choose which data you want to restrict access to. You should note that healthcare professionals may have access to your prescriptions via both the Summary Care Record and Prescription Intermediary. If you want to restrict healthcare professionals’ access to prescriptions, you need to change the settings for prescriptions shared via the Summary Care Record and prescriptions shared via the Prescription Intermediary.

More about the service

  • This service requires consent on Basic level or higher.

    You can view and change your consent under privacy settings.

  • You can give others power of attorney to view and register information on your behalf, and you can receive similar power of attorney from others.

    This service requires power of attorney to "Access to information".

    Find more information about power of attorney.

  • The service can be used on behalf of children for whom you have parental responsibility, until they turn 16, if at least one of the parents is registered at the same address as the child. From when the child turns 12, you will lose access to the information shared via the summary care record, as well as to the usage log.

    Read more about using Helsenorge on behalf of children.


    From 16 years of age

    When a child for whom you have parental responsibility or guardianship turns 16 years of age, you will no longer have access to their medical records. In order to get access, the young person can log in to Helsenorge or give you power of attorney.

  • Unlisted address is often referred to as «confidential address» or «blocked address».

    This service is available to people with a confidential address (code 7) and a strictly confidential address (code 6), but you will not have access to the usage log.

    If you live at a confidential or strictly confidential address, you will not be able to represent others at Helsenorge, nor will others be able to act on your behalf.

Content provided by Norsk helsenett

Norsk helsenett. About your health data that is shared. [Internet]. Oslo: The Norwegian Directorate of Health; updated Wednesday, May 7, 2025 [retrieved Saturday, July 19, 2025]. Available from: https://www.helsenorge.no/en/shared-health-data/about/

Last updated Wednesday, May 7, 2025