Service certificates for social welfare and healthcare

Server certificates and system signature certificates for social welfare and healthcare organisations needed during the use of Kanta Services.

Service certificates are software certificates used to authenticate a service provider’s server or service. Service certificates for social welfare and healthcare service providers include

• Server certificate for social welfare and healthcare service providers
• Test server certificate for social welfare and healthcare service providers
• System signature certificate for social welfare and healthcare service providers
• Test system signature certificate for social welfare and healthcare service providers.

The Population Register Centre produces the server certificates needed by service providers and pharmacies as well as their IT service providers for the use of Kanta Services.

An organisation signing up to use Kanta Services will need server certificates for the use of the ePrescription and eArchive services. A server certificate is needed to secure the telecommunications link (TLS secured) between the server of an organisation joining the services and the Katso server.

When signing up for the Kanta Service patient data archive you will need a system signature certificate. A system signature certificate is used to electronically sign documents that are not signed using healthcare professional certificates.

There are also test certificates available that are intended for use in test environments.

A service certificate is granted to a private actor or association that handles the administration of its own domain name. Service certificates for healthcare and social welfare are granted to organisations registered in the National Institute for Health and Welfare register for healthcare and social welfare organisations.

A server certificate for healthcare and social welfare services is valid for at most one year. System signature certificates are valid for at most two years.

In the more recent telephone certificates, the serial number of the certificate follows a new longer format, which may have to be taken into account in the development of information systems to avoid interoperability problems.
The old, longer format: hex 0bf4eab0 = decimal 200600240
The new, longer form: hex 0100000168f0a805c366b43b5de968c691fb = decimal 87112293252494463413683796322992020427259