Healthcare Corruption and the Problem of Measurement

This chapter highlights the different techniques employed to measure different types of healthcare corruption within and across healthcare sectors. Different techniques—surveys, audits, Fraud Loss Measurement etc. are used to measure different types of corruption—informal payments, dual practice, absenteeism, ghost employees etc. The usefulness and limitations of these measurements are consider in this chapter. In addition, I consider the impact of the volume, velocity, variety and veracity of healthcare data and how this can either help reduce corruption or is a conduit of it within and across the healthcare sectors.