Infoglide Blog

By Mike Betron, Infoglide Software Director of Marketing Immediately after the Christmas bomber incident in 2009, we highlighted the positive role that broader deployment of (id)entity resolution software could play in preventing terrorist actions. That thought was seconded this week in a piece published by the Canadian Broadcasting Company (CBC) entitled “Better data analysis for [...]

By Mike Shultz, Infoglide Software CEO On November 1, the Secure Flight program achieved a key goal as described on the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) web site: Secure Flight, the Transportation Security Administration’s (TSA) behind-the-scenes watch list matching program, fulfills a key recommendation of the 9/11 Commission by assuming responsibility of watch list matching from [...]

By Mike Betron, Infoglide Software Director of Marketing On the one hand, recognition of the power that entity resolution can bring to bear on challenging problems both in the commercial and public realms continues to increase. On the other hand, resistance to change and lack of budget seem to be inhibiting dramatic increases in productivity [...]

By Mike Betron, Infoglide Software Director of Marketing Last night the largest Medicare fraud operation yet discovered was in the headlines: A vast network of Armenian gangsters and their associates used phantom health care clinics and other means to try to cheat Medicare out of $163 million, the largest fraud by one criminal enterprise in [...]

If you’re involved in fraud detection, then you’re probably aware of ACFE, the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners. With over 50,000 members, it’s the largest single fraud anti-fraud organization in the world. ACFE is also the publisher of FRAUD magazine. Starting Sunday, July 25 and continuing through Wednesday, July 28, the 21st Annual ACFE Fraud [...]

By Mike Betron, Infoglide Software Director of Marketing More than half of the $98 million in “improper payments” by the federal government in 2009 were made through Medicare and Medicaid. A recent article in the New England Journal of Medicine points out that “since 1990, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) has designated Medicare as a [...]

By Mike Shultz, Infoglide Software CEO Last week Rep. Scott Murphy of Glen Falls (D-NY) told a House panel that more effective policing of Medicare and Medicaid fraud claims is imperative in order to reduce the estimated $60 billion in fraudulent claims that is disbursed each year. We agree with the expressed intent, and we [...]

By Infoglide Marketing The recent “Christmas Bomber” incident incited many posts about applying technology to address the gaps that allowed it to happen. For example, David Loshin wrote about a piece for BeyeNETWORK about a “master terrorist system” while Lawrence Dubov suggested improving the watch list process using entity resolution. While technology is a critical [...]

By Robert Barker, Infoglide Senior VP & Chief Marketing Officer We’ve talked before about how some employers will dissolve a company, then re-form it with the same people but under a new name. The objective? Reduce payments to workers’ compensation programs, where premiums are based on the historical level of claims. Erase the history by [...]

By Robert Barker, Infoglide Senior VP & Chief Marketing Officer So the title “Catching Terrorists and Making the World a Safer Place” certainly caught my eye! And the content of the post did not disappoint, as the author Chris Boorman of Informatica did a great job of crystallizing the issue that drove the creation of [...]