Confidential data hemorrhaging from health-care providers pose financial risks to firms and medical risks to patients. In this research thread, we are examining the consequences of data hemorrhages including privacy violations, medical fraud, financial identity theft, and medical identity theft. We also are exploring the types and sources of data hemorrhages.
Research
The Thread 3 team has collaborated with numerous members of industry and published several papers including:
Ajit Appari, Denise Anthony and M. Eric Johnson, "HIPAA Compliance: An Institutional Theory Perspective" in Proceedings of the 15th Americas Conference on Information Systems, San Francisco, CA, August 6-9, 2009.
News
Defending Cyberspace, Inside Supply Management, December 2011/January 2012, pages 20-23.
The Thread 3 team is led by Professor Eric Johnson of the Tuck School of Business. Other team members include Postdoctoral Research Fellows Ajit Appari and Juhee Kwon.