Specifications include, but are not limited to: The solution should have the ability to: • Store and manage information for both individual healthcare providers and organizational providers • Maintain identity based on a unique person basis (e.g., provider with multiple licenses has one unique person identifier) • Interface with third-party applications for credentialing, validation, locating missing data • Search/query data on the interface • Contact providers (e.g., notifications, surveys) • Organize hierarchical relationships between individual providers and organizations and among various levels of organizations (e.g., individual providers associated with practices or departments, practices or departments associated with hospitals, and hospitals associated with hospital networks) • Use and maintain standardized value sets* • Provide different levels of access to interface based on user roles • Customize frequency of updating data based on payer and/or professional requirements • Integrate data across different platforms • Implement hierarchical rules for determining “truth” in data sets
