International Journal For Multidisciplinary Research

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Proactive Fraud Prevention in Healthcare and Retail: Leveraging Deep Learning for Early Detection and Mitigation of Malicious Practices

Author(s) Esther Makandah, Wycliff Nagalia
Country United States
Abstract Fraudulent activities in both healthcare and retail sectors continue to pose serious economic, ethical, and operational threats, costing billions annually and undermining public trust and institutional efficiency. With the digital transformation of service delivery and payment mechanisms, the complexity and scale of fraud have evolved, requiring more intelligent, adaptable, and proactive countermeasures. This study explores the transformative potential of deep learning techniques in proactively detecting and mitigating fraudulent behavior across these two critical industries. From a broader perspective, the converging vulnerabilities shared by healthcare and retail domains, including false billing, inventory manipulation, claim inflation, identity theft, and transactional anomalies was examined. The study revealed that deep learning-based systems, including architectures such as autoencoders, recurrent neural networks (RNNs), long short-term memory (LSTM) models, and graph neural networks (GNNs), offer superior capability in recognizing subtle, evolving fraud schemes. These models, when integrated into real-time monitoring pipelines, enable early detection and dynamic response with reduced false positives. However, ethical, regulatory, and technical challenges, includes data privacy, algorithmic transparency, and integration into existing workflows.
Keywords Anomaly detection, Artificial intelligence, Deep learning, Healthcare fraud, Retail analytics
Published In Volume 7, Issue 3, May-June 2025
Published On 2025-06-25
DOI https://doi.org/10.36948/ijfmr.2025.v07i03.48118
Short DOI https://doi.org/g9rnwv

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