Identity Resolution Daily Links 2009-09-12
[Post from Infoglide] False Positives versus Citizen Profiles
“A post from Steve Bennett in Australia refers to an announcement by the Dutch government about their intent to prevent crime by profiling their citizens. By creating a digital profile of each citizen using banking, flight, and internet usage information, their justice department plans to compare citizen profiles with those of convicted criminals, then let law enforcement authorities know when matches are found. Needless to day, the move has created quite a bit of discussion in the Netherlands.”
MAINJUSTICE: Rival Agencies Agree to Halt Turf Battles
[quick registration] “‘By bringing together the agencies and personnel with existing resources and expertise we can work more effectively as partners to shut down organized crime networks, seize assets and save taxpayer dollars in the process,’ said Deputy Attorney General David Ogden in [a] statement announcing the partnership.”
HealthData Management: Assessing Demand for EHRs
“On Aug. 20, David Blumenthal, M.D., national coordinator for health information technology, predicted that the final definition of the “meaningful use” of electronic health records that will be used to determine eligibility for incentive payments under the economic stimulus program will not be available until the middle or end of spring 2010.”
South Florida Business Journal: NICB: Suspicious insurance claims up
“The number of suspicious insurance claims rose to 41,619 in the first half of the year, up from 36,743 in the prior-year period, according to a review of insurance claims referred to the National Insurance Crime Bureau.”
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