title: Medical identity theft: an emerging problem for informatics.
abstract: This poster reports a preliminary review of medical identity theft. Financial identity theft has received a great deal of media attention. Medical identity theft is a particular kind of identity theft that has received little attention. There are two main subtypes of medical identity theft. In the first type the stolen medical identity is used to receive medical services, and in the second type the stolen medical identity is used to commit healthcare fraud.
authors.affiliation: Healthcare Administration and Informatics, College of Health Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA.
authors.forename: William
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Gillette
authors.forename: Timothy B
authors.initials: TB
authors.lastname: Patrick
mesh_terms: D005607:Fraud / Q000191:economics / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D006801:Humans; D016347:Medical Records Systems, Computerized; D013800:Theft / Q000191:economics / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D014481:United States