Identity Resolution Daily Links 2009-03-13
[Post from Infoglide] Ontology or Living Context?
“IBM’s Jeff Jonas recently wrote a post about what types of problems are appropriate for developing an ontology, i.e. “a rigorous and exhaustive organization of some knowledge domain that is usually hierarchical and contains all the relevant entities and their relations.” His key point: as the complexity of the data that the ontology is meant to organize increases, the value of the ontology decreases.”
Workers’ Compensation Perspectives: Workers’ Compensation Fraud
“Workers’ compensation fraud is not a victimless crime. The victims of such frauds are not really the workers’ compensation insurers. Instead, the victims are those who play by the rules–the workers, employers and providers/suppliers of services. Workers receive more scrutiny of their claims, employers are subject to more audits and must bear the costs not being covered by those fraudulently under-reporting payroll.”
Chicago Tribune: New airport security rules to require more personal information
“Requiring the airlines to collect more personal information will improve the quality of the watch lists that contain names of possible terrorism and criminal suspects, federal authorities said. It’s also being done to reduce the misidentification of innocent travelers who are mistakenly placed on “no-fly” lists because their names are similar to those found on watch lists—a situation the TSA calls ‘a frustratingly common occurrence.’”
[Boris Evelson] “I had an amazing client experience the other day. I searched long and hard for a client with flawless, perfect, 100% efficient and effective BI environment and applications. My criteria were tough and that’s why it took me so long (I’ve been searching for as long as I’ve been in the BI business, almost 30 years).”
Insurance Journal: Texas Mutual Fraud Investigations Recover $4.1M in 2008
“According to the company, the $4.1 million includes: claimant fraud future savings of $2,185,170; restitution of $39,374 from claimants; restitution of $1,569,873 in premium fraud; and prevention of $301,467 in health care provider fraud and abusive billing.”
TAWPI Blog: Mastering Data Management
“MDM tends to come across like an infrastructure project or middleware — something that IT would sponsor, according to Dan Power, president of Hub Solution Designs Inc., an MDM consulting firm. But placing sponsorship with IT misses the point, he said. The line of business needs to sponsor the project because it can identify the business value the data holds and how a single view of that data can affect the bottom line.”
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