Medicare PKI certificate expiry

Medicare advises that their Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) certificate is expiring on 12 March 2014. It’s used to encrypt the transmissions you send to Medicare electronically, and is used to digitally sign the responses they send back. The certificate is used for Medicare Online, PBS Online, Aged Care Online Claiming, ECLIPSE and of most relevance to dentists, the Healthcare Identifiers Service.
Dentists have been signing up for the PKI certificate recently so they can gain access to Medicare's HPOS database in order to check the eligibility of their patients for treatment under the Child Dental Benefit Schedule.

Medicare urges that you make at least one transmission from your software before 9 March 2014 so that you can automatically receive the new certificate.

To find out more information go to Public Key Infrastructure.