This is a redesign of the National Plan and Provider Enumeration System (NPPES). NPPES is a system managed by the Ceters for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). See http://cms.hhs.gov for more information. NPPES is designed to enumerate all providers in the United States.
The Google Group for this project is here: https://groups.google.com/d/forum/nppes
This project is being developed by the federal government of the United States
and is public domain. We invite any interested parties to help make this great.
We can accept pull requests. If you wish to contribute to this effort
please send an email to alan.viars at cms.hhs.gov. Please consider joining the
Google Group too.
The project is written in Python and uses the Django web framework. For more information on Django see https://www.djangoproject.com/
This project is still in an early development phase and hence we are pushing to
the master branch for the time being. We will soon be switching to working
from a branch called develop.
Here are short set of instructions for getting the project running in a local environment. These instructions assume Python 2.7 and pip are already installed.
Dowload the source code:
git clone git@github.com:HHSIDEAlab/npi.git
Change into the project directory:
cd npi
Install all requierises using pip:
pip install -r npi/requirements.txt
Build the database and install fixtures:
python manage.py syncdb
Run the development server on http://127.0.0.1:8000.
python manage.py runserver
Point your browser to http://127.0.0.1:8000 to see the main page.
This is not rewuired for development, but should be used in production.
Install ClamAV and Daemon
sudo apt-get install clamav-daemon
pip install pyclamd
Turn on Anti-virus in Django settings_local.py.
ANTI_VIRUS = True
Currently, user creation occurs in the Django admin. It is envisioned that accounts will be created using CMS's current Identity and Access (I&A) system. PECOS and EHRIncentives also use I&A for access. A user is not the same thing as an Enumeration.