missing_information() allows you to search for providers with missing
digital contact information in NPPES.
Missing Information = NPPES Endpoints
Digital contact information, also known as endpoints, provides a secure way for health care entities to send authenticated, encrypted health information to trusted recipients over the internet.
Health care organizations seeking to engage in electronic health information exchange need accurate information about the electronic addresses (e.g., Direct address, FHIR server URL, query endpoint, or other digital contact information) of potential exchange partners to facilitate this information exchange.
Arguments
- npi
The provider’s National Provider Identifier
- name
Provider's full name, in the form "last, first"
- tidy
Tidy output; default is
TRUE.
Value
A tibble containing the search results.
Examples
# A provider that appears in the search results
# of the Missing Information API has no Endpoints
# entered into the NPPES NPI Registry and vice versa.
## Appears
missing_information(name = "Clouse, John")
#> # A tibble: 1 × 3
#> npi last_name first_name
#> <chr> <chr> <chr>
#> 1 1144224569 Clouse John
## No Endpoints in NPPES
nppes(npi = 1144224569,
tidy = FALSE) |>
dplyr::select(endpoints)
#> # A tibble: 1 × 1
#> endpoints
#> <lgl>
#> 1 NA
## Does Not Appear
missing_information(npi = 1003000423)
#> ✖ No results for npi: 1003000423
## Has Endpoints in NPPES
nppes(npi = 1003000423, tidy = FALSE) |>
dplyr::select(endpoints) |>
tidyr::unnest(cols = c(endpoints)) |>
janitor::clean_names() |>
dplyr::select(dplyr::contains("endpoint"))
#> # A tibble: 1 × 4
#> endpoint_type endpoint_type_description endpoint endpoint_description
#> <chr> <chr> <chr> <chr>
#> 1 DIRECT Direct Messaging Address Jennifer.velotta… eclinicaldirectplus