Practitioner referral platform

A computer-implemented method of providing practitioner information to registered practitioner-users, the method comprising:

• registering a user as a practitioner-user, the registering including at least obtaining a name and NPI number of the practitioner-user;
• receiving, by a server comprising at least one computer processor and memory, a search request from the registered practitioner-user to search for one or more practitioners, the request includes a search query;
• creating a report score for each of the one or more practitioners based on one or more values from a data group comprising:
• an education score, years of experience score, training score, hospital appointments score, academic appointments score, hospital affiliations score, disciplinary/legal score, licensure score, board certifications score, areas of expertise score, membership affiliations score, insurance accepted score, clinical trials score, operative skill score, outcomes/readmissions score, pricing score, patents score, presentations score, publications score, research score, awards score, professional development education score, athletic teams score, social media score, media and press score, community involvement score, volunteer programs score, type of practice score, foreign language score;
• creating a search results list using the report score for each of the one or more practitioners who match the search query;
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• providing access to the search results list to the registered practitioner-user over a computer network, where the registered practitioner-user authorizes a third party to report his or her information for use in creating the one or more values associated with the data group.

A computer-implemented method of providing practitioner information to registered practitioner-users having been registered utilizing an NPI number and having self-reported one or more data elements from a data group comprising an education score, years of experience score, training score, hospital appointments score, academic appointments score, hospital affiliations score, disciplinary/legal score, licensure score, board certifications score, areas of expertise score, membership affiliations score, insurance accepted score, clinical trials score, operative skill score, outcomes/readmissions score, pricing score, patents score, presentations score, publications score, research score, awards score, professional development education score, athletic teams score, social media score, media and press score, community involvement score, volunteer programs score, type of practice score, foreign language score, to create a report score for each of the registered practitioner-users, the method comprising:

• receiving, by a server comprising at least one computer processor and memory, a search request from at least one of the registered practitioner-users to search for one or more practitioners, the request includes a search query;
• creating a search results list using the report score for each of the practitioners who match the search query;
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• providing access to the search results list to the registered practitioner-user over a computer network.

A system for use by registered practitioner-users for identifying practitioners, the system comprising:

• a processing unit;
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• a memory coupled to the processing unit, the memory encoding computer executable instructions that, when executed by the processing unit, perform a method comprising:
• receiving a request from a registered practitioner-user to search for one or more of the practitioners, the request includes a search query, the registered practitioner-user having been registered by using an NPI number associated with the registered practitioner-user;
• assigning a report score to each of the practitioners, the report score derived from a raw cumulative score based on one or more values from a group comprising:
• education score, years of experience score, training score, hospital appointments score, academic appointments score, hospital affiliations score, disciplinary/legal score, licensure score, board certifications score, areas of expertise score, membership affiliations score, insurance accepted score, clinical trials score, patents score, presentations score, publications score, research score, awards score, professional development education score, athletic teams score, social media score, media and press score, community involvement score, volunteer programs score, type of practice score, foreign language score;
• ranking the one or more practitioners who match the search query based on the report scores to create a ranked results list;
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• providing access to the ranked results list over a computer network.