On 1/27/2013 7:14 PM, Jerry Stuckle wrote:
There is no exception for transmission of medical or emergency data.

http://www.hhs.gov/ocr/privacy/hipaa/faq/safeguards/197.html

Specifically:
For example, the Privacy Rule does not require the following types
of structural or systems changes:

Encryption of wireless or other emergency medical radio communications
which can be intercepted by scanners.

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