Provider Taxonomy

A gem to add a database table containing the NUCC Health Care Provider Taxonomy.

Installation

Add this line to your application’s Gemfile:

“by gem ‘provider_taxonomy’

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And then execute:

“sh $ bundle install

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Finally, run the migration and rake task:

“sh $ rake db:migrate

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“sh $ rake provider_taxonomy:import

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Usage

Once installed, your Rails app will have a taxonomy_items database table and a TaxonomyItem model from which you can access all healthcare provider specialties.

If you would like to extend the model with your own, you can do the following

“by class Specialty < TaxonomyItem self.table_name = “taxonomy_items” belongs_to :parent, foreign_key: :parent_id, class_name: Specialty, required: false # Your code goes here end

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You may also wish to add the following to db/seeds.rb:

“by Rake::Task[provider_taxonomy:import].invoke

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License

The gem is available as open source under the terms of the MIT License.