Kathryn Foxhall reports:
A coalition of public and private groups, including the Department of Defense and the U.S. Secret Service, will open a center at Indiana University study identity theft, including the growing area of health care fraud.
The 19 partners in the Center for Applied Identity Management Research (CAIMR) include IBM, LexisNexis, Lockheed Martin, Visa and Wells Fargo, according to executives at a Washington, D.C., press conference.
The center claims to be the first to bring together cross-disciplinary experts on identity theft from fields including criminal justice, cybercrime and cyber defense, data protection, biometrics, homeland security and national defense.
CAIMR executive director Gary Gordon said one of the fastest growing areas of identify theft is medical identity theft. Ir is a key area of interest for some of the center’s partners, he said, and has not been examined carefully in terms of how it is occurring and who the offenders are.
Read more in Government Health IT