High-tech software sleuthing. New computer tools give government tighter handle on hard-to-track healthcare fraud.

After developing new data-mining techniques, the government no longer needs to rely on outdated methods when investigating allegations of hard-to-track healthcare fraud. Today, federal officials, such as U.S. Deputy Attorney General Eric Holder Jr. (left), have an enhanced ability to collect and analyze massive amounts of financial and medical information necessary to successfully prosecute perpetrators of crimes that drain the Medicare program.