Comments on: Announcing NPIdentify http://www.fredtrotter.com/2008/11/11/announcing-npidentify/ Hacktivist, coding for social change Wed, 25 Jan 2012 14:14:05 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 By: Michael Christopher http://www.fredtrotter.com/2008/11/11/announcing-npidentify/comment-page-1/#comment-3360 Michael Christopher Thu, 13 Nov 2008 21:41:58 +0000 http://www.fredtrotter.com/2008/11/11/announcing-npidentify/#comment-3360 Skunkworks is right! Some months of the NPPES data had big problems, everything from missing providers to their fields going over the maximum number of characters and missing letters in non-mainstream names. Developing with this data is like blowing soap bubbles at a moving target. In the wind. I taught myself some new cusswords as I was building NPIdentify Desktop. I can't wait to get my hands on Fred's provider web search tool. I think that between that and the download version, the industry will finally have the sophisticated healthcare provider lookup tools we need. Skunkworks is right! Some months of the NPPES data had big problems, everything from missing providers to their fields going over the maximum number of characters and missing letters in non-mainstream names. Developing with this data is like blowing soap bubbles at a moving target. In the wind. I taught myself some new cusswords as I was building NPIdentify Desktop.

I can’t wait to get my hands on Fred’s provider web search tool. I think that between that and the download version, the industry will finally have the sophisticated healthcare provider lookup tools we need.

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