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    National Health Care Practitioner Database (NHCPD)

    Metadata Updated: September 2, 2025

    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.

    Access & Use Information

    Non-public: This dataset is not for public access or use. Specific details are provided below. License: Creative Commons CCZero

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    Dates

    Metadata Created Date November 10, 2020
    Metadata Updated Date September 2, 2025

    Metadata Source

    Harvested from VA JSON

    Other Data Resources

    Additional Metadata

    Resource Type Dataset
    Metadata Created Date November 10, 2020
    Metadata Updated Date September 2, 2025
    Publisher Department of Veterans Affairs
    Maintainer
    Identifier VA-VHA-OIA-013
    Data First Published 2017-07-26
    Language en-US
    Data Last Modified 2020-12-01
    Rights Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, protected health information.
    Category Basic Statistics, Use, and Operational Data
    Public Access Level non-public
    Bureau Code 029:15
    Metadata Context https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.jsonld
    Metadata Catalog ID https://www.data.va.gov/data.json
    Schema Version https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema
    Catalog Describedby https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.json
    Data Quality True
    Harvest Object Id 8167dbb4-cf01-47f1-a772-4e646049c172
    Harvest Source Id fcd1f625-1c2e-4663-95cf-1b0eb053cce1
    Harvest Source Title VA JSON
    Homepage URL https://www.data.va.gov/d/2cbx-yjw5
    License https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
    Program Code 029:041
    Source Datajson Identifier True
    Source Hash bb00a3073a095e5736bfbb0d1ad940dd9f6c185006d24d6a4cb155efc662f120
    Source Schema Version 1.1
    System of Records https://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/FR-2012-05-11/pdf/2012-11487.pdf
    Temporal 2001-01-01T05:00:00Z/2014-12-31T05:00:00Z

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