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Identity Fraud Among Home-Care Workers Puts Patients at Risk

ID: 4e68fed1-1bbc-51bd-8a15-8920ecade94b

STIX ID: report--4e68fed1-1bbc-51bd-8a15-8920ecade94b

Feed Name: Dark Reading

Date Published: 2025-12-19

Date Updated: 2026-04-21

Author: Arielle Waldman

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The article describes a growing problem of identity fraud in home healthcare where personal-care assistants allow unqualified substitutes to use their credentials and devices to falsify electronic visit verification, resulting in patient harm and prosecutions; it cites examples from the US and UK and recommends combining device-bound biometrics with geofencing and stronger identity-continuum controls to mitigate the risk.

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