Datasets / National Health Care Practitioner Database (NHCPD)


National Health Care Practitioner Database (NHCPD)

Published By Department of Veterans Affairs

Issued over 9 years ago

US
beta

Summary

Type of release
a one-off release of a set of related datasets

Licence
Creative Commons CCZero

Verification
automatically awarded

Description

This database is part of the National Medical Information System (NMIS). The National Health Care Practitioner Database (NHCPD) supports Veterans Health Administration Privacy Act requirements by segregating personal information about health care practitioners such as name and social security number from patient information recorded in the National Patient Care Database for Ambulatory Care Reporting and Primary Care Management Module.