Identity Resolution Daily Links 2010-05-11
By the Infoglide Team
Media Health Leaders Media: Detroit Doc Gets Six Years for Medicare Fraud
“Myint, of Bloomfield Hills, MI, was also ordered to pay more than $3.1 million in restitution, jointly with co-defendants, and to serve two years of supervised release following his prison term. Terrence Hicks, of Jackson, MI, the patient recruiter, was ordered to pay more than $4.9 million in restitution, jointly with co-defendants, and to serve three years of supervised release following his prison term.”
AolTravel: Is the No-Fly List Working?
“‘The TSA is hoping to smooth glitches with the new Secure Flight program — a system by which the ‘TSA will conduct uniform prescreening of passenger information against federal government watchlists,’ according to an official statement. ‘The TSA is taking over this responsibility from the airlines.’ The TSA says the Secure Flight system will be in effect for all domestic flights by mid-2010 and all international flights by the end of 2010, at which time the latest two-hour notification rule will become moot (since the airlines will no longer be responsible). Meanwhile, in the case of Shahzad, Kahn says it’s important to remember that the current system — for all its perceived faults related to his near escape — ultimately did what it was meant to do.”
ITBusinessEdge: Baby Steps to Master Data Management
“If you want to start small with master data management, you’ve got to start with a noun, says Evan Levy, a partner at Baseline Consulting and an instructor with The Data Warehousing Institute… The problem is, IT doesn’t think in nouns. IT is all about the verb: Defining, coding, testing, supporting. What’s more, IT departments tend to view the world in terms of projects – fulfilling this feature request, upgrading to this release, migrating to this server.”
Liliendahl on Data Quality: Aadhar (or Aadhaar)
“In Denmark we have had such an identifier (one for citizens and one for companies) for many years. It is not used by everyone everywhere – so you still are able to make money being a data quality professional specializing in data matching. The main reason that the unique citizen identifier is not used all over is of course privacy considerations.”
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