Mitigating medical identity theft.

摘要

Medical identity theft accounts for 3 percent of identity theft crimes, or 249,000 of the estimated 8.3 million people who had their identities stolen in 2005, according to the Federal Trade Commission. But what exactly is medical identity theft and why does the World Privacy Forum say it is the most difficult of identity theft crimes to correct? This practice brief explores medical identity theft, its ramifications, and how HIM professionals and others can work together to prevent, investigate, and mitigate the damages it causes.