On 1/27/2013 10:50 PM, Foxs Mercantile wrote:
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.

Jeff-1.0
wa6fwi



"Emergency" is the defining word here. And when you look up the
definition, it refers to a threat of an immediate loss of life.

This exception was implemented to allow Life Flight helicopters,
Ambulances, etc. to be able to communicate with the hospital.

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