Question

Topic: Identity Theft in Healthcare

Answer these questions in a one page paper format/

1. Determine its origin which also includes the year.

2. Where is it used?

3. Who uses it?

4. Why is it used?

5. Have you heard of this term before or is it new to you…explain.

6. What effect does it have in the profession that you are currently enrolled in?

Answer 1

THEFT IN HEALTH CARE OR MEDICAL CARE :

1. In the year of 2015 January, Anthem Inc, one of the largest insurer servicing in America experiences the theft of millions of employees personal information has stolen from data bases.

2. The theft done in health care is used to obtain illegal actions on claiming insurance schemes of others, false creation of documents which fails to further suspension of legal proceedings.

3. Medical theft in health care is done by Hackers and scammers who hacks the personal database information of doctors, nurses, patients, medical staff and non administrative staff, who uses that personal data for illegal activities and perform crimes using that data.

4. Thefts can be used to claim fraud insurances, free medical bills on other names, duplicating original documents of the staff members and using them for illegal activities.

5. Medical theft in health care is increasing now a days where it is difficult to protect personal information of the staff and patients, As hackers are trying new ways to intrude the data bases on the organizations.The data bases of every health care department are becoming highly protected with heavy passwords and security key bases where hackers are failing to invade the information.

6. Once the theft happens personal information of the person may be misused for wrong things and illegal activities. Our codes, registered numbers , contact information, identification numbers, personal address, mailings, documents all will be misused and the person in be in a dangerous trouble who faces legal issues.