Folio IS (Internet Service)

FOLIO IS service allows real time access to up-to-the-minute Physician Information

IS provides online interaction with the Folio Census Database of Physicians and Healthcare Facilities for the New England states (Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut), New York, New Jersey and Ohio. With 150,000 physicians and 20,000 healthcare facilities, you can be confident that the physician or facility of important to you will be located with all the relevant contact and identifier information.

Using an advanced library of customized software programs, Folio routinely and systematically matches its own unique physician and facility identifiers with other electronic database identifiers such as National Provider Identifiers (NPIs), Unique Physician Identifier Numbers (UPINs), Drug Enforcement Agency identifiers (DEA), state board licensure numbers, and with the proprietary identifiers of many data license customers. The result is Folio brings to bear all relevant electronic information in evaluating, building and validating its physician databases.

But all electronic files (including web gathered files) have weaknesses in the form of outdated information, redundant or duplicate information, limited information or simple input errors. That is why Folio stresses direct verification of all physician information through an annual mailed verification form, followed by phone contact from a dedicated on-site Data Research staff. In this process Folio not only completes the ‘census’ of physicians practicing in an area but also gathers proprietary information that is simply unavailable in other physician databases.

The benefits of Folio’s software and database expertise and direct verification processes are available to you on-line and in real time, 24/7 through Folio IS
Information includes:

• Multiple practice addresses
• Phone, fax and email information
• Identifiers such as UPIN's and now NPI's
• Group practice relationships
• Hospital and HMO affiliations
• Medical school and specialty information
  

Physician information can be surveyed based on:

• Name
• Town
• Street Address
• Medical Specialty
• Medical Specialty in a Town
• UPIN or NPI