Steve Helton wrote:
> The reason these radios are now coming on the market is that the Federal law
> on medical privacy (HIPPA) is requiring the encryption of any medical
> information between the field units and the hospitals. Squads that transmit
> patient info in the clear face severe penalties. Some of the squads have
> gone to digital cell phones and some are now going to encrypted radios on
> their trunked public safety radio system as more areas switch to trunking
> system. All of the MEDCOM UHF frequencies are being abandoned since
> encryption is not a provision of the APCOR radios. The only frequencies that
> we are still hearing activity on is the two MEDCOM "dispatch" channels which
> are being used by the medical helicopters for actual dispatch only (location
> coordinates, etc.) but not patient information.
Actually, the reason they got rid of the Apcor's and Biocom's is that
they were 3-lead ECG, and hospitals went to 5-lead. Nobody was able to
do 5-lead ECG in a normal 25Khz bandwidth FM channel. So it all just
went away.
--
Jim Barbour
WD8CHL
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