The health IT community gathered in a town hall format to examine and attack medical identity theft — the ‘ theft of the future,’ according to a Department of Justice expert in health care fraud.
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Scope, Future of Medical Identity Theft Examined – iHealthBeat
One of the newer forms of identity theft is known as medical identity theft . As commonly associated with this type of fraud, medical identity theft occurs when an individual uses somebody’s personal information to obtain costly medical …
The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONCHIT) held its town hall on medical identity theft recently. The result? Confirmation that medical identity theft is still somewhat of a mystery. …
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