Endpoints enable participants to communicate authenticated, encrypted health information directly to known, trustworthy recipients via the Internet in a simple, secure, scalable, and standards-based manner. When providers seek new NPIs or update their NPI information in NPPES, they can input their Endpoint information. Individual (Type 1) and Organization (Type 2) NPI apps accept Endpoint information. This information will be available to users via the NPI Registry, APIs, and Data Dissemination Files.
An endpoint is a technical description of a place that may be connected to for information delivery/retrieval. A sufficient amount of information is necessary to guarantee that a secure connection can be established and relevant data is delivered as determined by the endpoint owner. This is not a description of the present system’s details, as given in the Capability Statement, but of another (possibly external) system. These services might be hosted locally, regionally, or nationally.