About the Data Quality and Enrichment Services

The healthcare providers template includes these data quality and enrichment services:

• Address Standardization, Validation, and Geocoding. This service examines values for the template's address attributes, and adds any resulting validated, standardized values to each record in new enrichment-specific attributes. The original values mapped from your source datasets remain present and unchanged.
• Phone Enrichment. This service validates and standardizes phone numbers, and enriches phone numbers with type, carrier, and region.
• NPPES Enrichment. This service matches each mastered healthcare provider to a National Provider Identifier (NPI), and adds detailed practice, credential, specialty, name, and other information from the National Plan & Provider Enumeration System (NPPES).

See the linked topics above for processing details and added attributes.

About the Clustering Model

The healthcare providers model groups records as follows:

First, by trusted_id. Records with the same trusted_id are clustered together. Records with different trusted_ids are not clustered together.

Records with null/empty trusted_id are clustered based on the middle name value or similarity, meaning that they may be clustered with records that have a trusted _id.

Then, by middle name. If records have not been clustered together based on trusted_id values, then records with different values for middle name are not clustered together.

For example, if two records have the same trusted_id, they are clustered together regardless of middle name value. However, if two records do not have trusted_id values and have different values for middle name, these records will not be clustered together, regardless of the similarity in other attributes.

Then, by similarity.
Records with empty trusted_ids and with matching or empty middle names are clustered based on similarities between these attribute fields:

• Full address
• Street address
• City
• Region
• Country code
• Postal code
• First three digits of the postal code
• Phone Number
• First name
• Last name
• Middle name
  Note: Records that are highly similar but have different middle name values will not be grouped together, unless these records have the same trusted_id.
• Name suffix
• Organization name
• Speciality
• Credentials

Note: Generic descriptions, rather than specific attribute names, are listed to represent both the standard schema and the attributes added by the enrichers and other data transformations.