From Nextgov.com: Health IT office awards contract to fight medical identity theft

National coordinator for health IT asks Booz Allen to analyze prevalence of medical records theft and how to prevent and detect it.

The federal office overseeing the development of a national system of electronic medical records awarded a $450,000 contract on Wednesday to Booz Allen Hamilton to evaluate the scope of medical identity theft in the United States.

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