Physician and Other Healthcare Information

**Overview**
This data package shows the Physician and Other Healthcare Information like Business Wire Healthcare Press Release Distribution List, Health Professional Shortage Area Mental and Dental Health, Physician Evaluation and Management Medicare Service Events and Physicians Malpractice Payments.

**Description**
This data package shows the information of Business Wire’s national distribution list that the company uses to disseminate full-text press releases from thousands of companies and organizations worldwide to news media, financial markets, disclosure systems, investors, information web sites, databases, bloggers, social networks and other audiences across the United States of America. The Division of Policy and Shortage Designation (DPSD) in the HRSA, Bureau of Health Workforce (BHW) develops shortage designation criteria and uses them to decide whether or not a geographic area or population group is a Health Professional Shortage Area (HPSA), Medically Underserved Area (MUA), or Medically Underserved Population (MUP).

**Benefits**
- Useful for healthcare practitioner

**License Information**
The use of John Snow Labs datasets is free for personal and research purposes. For commercial use please subscribe to the [Data Library](https://www.johnsnowlabs.com/marketplace/) on John Snow Labs website. The subscription will allow you to use all John Snow Labs datasets and data packages for commercial purposes.

**Included Datasets**
- [Business Wire Healthcare Press Release Distribution List](https://www.johnsnowlabs.com/marketplace/business-wire-healthcare-press-release-distribution-list)
- This dataset contains Business Wire’s national distribution list that the company uses to disseminate full-text press releases from thousands of companies and organizations worldwide to news media, financial markets, disclosure systems, investors, information websites, databases, bloggers, social networks and other audiences across the United States of America.
- [Health Professional Shortage Area Dental Care](https://www.johnsnowlabs.com/marketplace/health-professional-shortage-area-dental-care)
- This dataset shows Health Professional Shortage Area (HPSA) in geographic areas with shortages of dental health providers. The Health Resource and Service Administration (HRSA) Data Warehouse (HDW) extracts HPSA data from the Shortage Designation Management System (SDMS), which is the transactional source system of record for all HPSA disciplines. This dataset is made available for a subscription according to the data refresh cycle indicated on the Data Marketplace page.
- [Health Professional Shortage Area Mental Health](https://www.johnsnowlabs.com/marketplace/health-professional-shortage-area-mental-health)
- This dataset shows Health Professional Shortage Area (HPSA) in geographic areas with shortages of mental health providers. The Health Resource and Service Administration (HRSA) Data Warehouse (HDW) extracts HPSA data from the Shortage Designation Management System (SDMS), which is the transactional source system of record for all HPSA disciplines. This dataset is made available for a subscription according to the data refresh cycle indicated on the Data Marketplace page.
- [Health Professional Shortage Area Primary Care](https://www.johnsnowlabs.com/marketplace/health-professional-shortage-area-primary-care)
- This dataset shows Health Professional Shortage Area (HPSA) in geographic areas with shortages of primary care health providers. The Health Resource and Service Administration (HRSA) Data Warehouse (HDW) extracts HPSA data from the Shortage Designation Management System (SDMS), which is the transactional source system of record for all HPSA disciplines. This dataset is made available for a subscription according to the data refresh cycle indicated on the Data Marketplace page.
- [Physician Evaluation and Management Medicare Service Events](https://www.johnsnowlabs.com/marketplace/physician-evaluation-and-management-medicare-service-events)
- This dataset shows the health indicator which contains information about the rate of physician evaluation and management service events among Medicare fee-for-service beneficiaries.
- [Physician Patient Transcripts With 4C Analysis](https://www.johnsnowlabs.com/marketplace/physician-patient-transcripts-with-4c-analysis)
- This dataset shows This dataset consists of 405 transcriptions of audio recorded physician-patient interactions conducted at Veterans Health Administration (VHA) medical center primary care clinics. The interactions were analyzed using an early form of Content Coding for Contextualization of Care ("4C").
- [US Healthcare Practitioner Malpractice Payments I](https://www.johnsnowlabs.com/marketplace/us-healthcare-practitioner-malpractice-payments-i)
- This dataset contains the first part of the National Practitioner Data Bank (NPDB) Public Use Data File, which contains reports from 1990 to 2014 of sequence number 1 to 1357832. The NPDB, according to the Health Care Quality Improvement Act of 1986 collects and discloses de-identified professional competence and conduct of professionals reports about practitioners, providers, suppliers and entities figuring malpractice payments, adverse reactions and other actions or decisions.
- [US Healthcare Practitioner Malpractice Payments II](https://www.johnsnowlabs.com/marketplace/us-healthcare-practitioner-malpractice-payments-ii)
- This dataset contains the second part of the National Practitioner Data Bank (NPDB) Public Use Data File, which contains reports from 1991 to March 2016 of sequence number 1357833 to 1544073. The NPDB, according to the Health Care Quality Improvement Act of 1986 collects and discloses de-identified professional competence and conduct of professionals reports about practitioners, providers, suppliers and entities figuring malpractice payments, adverse reactions and other actions or decisions.

**Data Engineering Overview**
**We deliver high-quality data**
- Each dataset goes through 3 levels of quality review
- 2 Manual reviews are done by domain experts
- Then, an automated set of 60+ validations enforces every datum matches metadata & defined constraints
- Data is normalized into one unified type system
- All dates, unites, codes, currencies look the same
- All null values are normalized to the same value
- All dataset and field names are SQL and Hive compliant
- Data and Metadata
- Data is available in both CSV and Apache Parquet format, optimized for high read performance on distributed Hadoop, Spark & MPP clusters
- Metadata is provided in the open Frictionless Data standard, and its every field is normalized & validated
- Data Updates
- Data updates support replace-on-update: outdated foreign keys are deprecated, not deleted

**Our data is curated and enriched by domain experts**

Each dataset is manually curated by our team of doctors, pharmacists, public health & medical billing experts:
- Field names, descriptions, and normalized values are chosen by people who actually understand their meaning
- Healthcare & life science experts add categories, search keywords, descriptions and more to each dataset
- Both manual and automated data enrichment supported for clinical codes, providers, drugs, and geo-locations
- The data is always kept up to date – even when the source requires manual effort to get updates
- Support for data subscribers is provided directly by the domain experts who curated the data sets
- Every data source’s license is manually verified to allow for royalty-free commercial use and redistribution.

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