Identity Resolution Daily Links 2009-12-01
By the Infoglide Team
WPRI.com: State police crackdown on lottery scams
“‘The clerk opened the cash register and paid our undercover officer $100 dollars,’ said Capt. David Neill of the Rhode Island State Police. ‘On another occasion, our undercover officer presented the $1,000 winning scratch ticket and was told that in fact it was not a winning ticket.’”
naplesnews.com: Editorial: Law enforcement … expanding cooperation, increasing public safety
“The fusion center program aims to make the most of intelligence and technology. That’s collaboration, making teamwork routine rather than something out of the ordinary. That recognizes the age-old truism that crime and criminals know no city or county lines. They move freely to opportunities and hiding places.”
National Terror Alert: Secure Flight Improves Safety And Passenger Delays
“Initially, the Secure Flight program was part of a larger debate about how to identify terrorists consistently while maintaining the privacy of fliers in the post-9/11 world. Once watch list matching was determined to be the correct mechanism, TSA designed the program with privacy and security embedded into its foundation. Secure Flight now uses advanced watch list matching technology and has taken the time to get it right.”
Health IT Buzz: The Evidence for HIT
“Many health care organizations, big and small, public and private, have installed electronic health record systems and are reaping their benefits daily. Examples include not only national systems like the Veterans Administration and Kaiser Permanente, but regional groups like Geisinger Health System, and individual hospitals like the Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital in Boston, and Lakeland Hospital, a 77-bed facility outside of Omaha Nebraska. These organizations show that the vision is feasible – health care can be made higher in quality and lower in cost through the best existing HIT.”
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