Very valid points!
The points that made me think most were the facts that our education system stigmatizes mistakes and schools/universities are like factories that produce people to work in the industry.
Wednesday, March 17, 2010
Monday, March 15, 2010
Monday, March 8, 2010
TBL on linked data
The talk is about one year old, but still interesting and current. This year's ICDE conference also had some interesting papers on topics related one way or the other to linked data.
Slides of my talk at ICDE 2010
Last week, we had the ICDE 2010 conference in Long Beach, LA. Here are the slides of my talk.
Wednesday, February 24, 2010
Another great presentation
"Cloud computing - why it matters?" by Simon Wardley (OSCON '09). I like the presentation style and the presentation itself.
Saturday, February 20, 2010
Identity 2.0 keynote
The following keynote (found thanks to a friend of mine) is quite old, but I thought of adding it here as the presentation style used is quite interesting (the content is very useful as well). I liked it so much that I watched it twice. I think I am going copy some of his style in my presentations.
Monday, February 15, 2010
Health care identity theft
A good news article on health care identity fraud and its current status.
Theft of health care identity is relatively new; partly because it's only now people are starting to use electronic health care records. Last year, in the stimulus package, the US government allocated billions of dollars to start build a nation wide online health care record system over the next couple of years. So, I think there will be more such incidents than what we currently see.
Some stats:
...It is estimated that the number of identity fraud victims in the United States increased by 12 percent, to 11.1 million adults in 2009, while the total annual fraud amount increased by 12.5 percent, to $54 billion.
"Health insurance-related identity fraud is particularly troublesome because of the relative costs. The average identity fraud victim pays $373, while a health insurance fraud victim pays $2,228, and a health insurance fraud typically is about $12,100 in total, compared with $4,841 for an average identity fraud case."
A simple solution to minimize such frauds is to ask for multiple credentials (driver's license, student photo ID, etc.) along with the health insurance card; it is unlikely an impersonator possesses all these.
This is good news for those who do research in protecting medical records - there is a real need.
Theft of health care identity is relatively new; partly because it's only now people are starting to use electronic health care records. Last year, in the stimulus package, the US government allocated billions of dollars to start build a nation wide online health care record system over the next couple of years. So, I think there will be more such incidents than what we currently see.
Some stats:
...It is estimated that the number of identity fraud victims in the United States increased by 12 percent, to 11.1 million adults in 2009, while the total annual fraud amount increased by 12.5 percent, to $54 billion.
"Health insurance-related identity fraud is particularly troublesome because of the relative costs. The average identity fraud victim pays $373, while a health insurance fraud victim pays $2,228, and a health insurance fraud typically is about $12,100 in total, compared with $4,841 for an average identity fraud case."
A simple solution to minimize such frauds is to ask for multiple credentials (driver's license, student photo ID, etc.) along with the health insurance card; it is unlikely an impersonator possesses all these.
This is good news for those who do research in protecting medical records - there is a real need.
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