just looking for confirmation but does anyone know if life link 3 and nm air care are encrypted now? i hear dispatch fine but not the pilot or crew.
thanks
thanks
just looking for confirmation but does anyone know if life link 3 and nm air care are encrypted now? i hear dispatch fine but not the pilot or crew.
thanks
North is. Started around 9am on 10/5.
Interesting. *Shrugs shoulders apathetically* seems needless.
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Correction. I think it's base to base. Not sure if I have heard helicopters on 39 or not.I'm sure this has to do with HIPPA. Also TG 39 seems to be active in SW MN now. This seems to be air ambulance to air ambulance. Heard an NM unit talking to a LLIII unit today.
Wonder if the patch to "WISFLIGHT" on the WISCOM system is encrypted as well or in the clear.
Gotta keep those landing sites confidential...
I'm sure this has to do with HIPPA. Also TG 39 seems to be active in SW MN now. This seems to be air ambulance to air ambulance. Heard an NM unit talking to a LLIII unit today.
You CAN legally give protected health information over the air under HIPAA. It is known as an Incidental Disclosure, but paramedic services will generally opt for protocols that minimize this as a courtesy. https://www.hhs.gov/hipaa/for-profe...ce/incidental-uses-and-disclosures/index.html
TG 39 is for dispatch to dispatch communications for coordination of landing zones at hospitals and scenes to minimize helicopters crossing paths since each service uses a different Operations Control Center. Mobiles and Portables are not allowed to have EMSAIRCOM in their radios.
https://dps.mn.gov/divisions/ecn/pr...rdsListNew/Attachments/16/standard-3-29-1.pdf
My feelers indicate that this is an operational security move, but may be part of a larger move to encryption by EMS as the cost for encryption goes down. Many of the initial adopters of ARMER are replacing radios due to life cycles of 10-15 years.
I don't see encryption being implemented anytime soon, HIPAA notwithstanding. Many regional hospitals, particularly trauma centers, get emergency patients from many other counties. Locally, the trauma center receives patients from at least 17 counties in two states. Some of these counties are small and poor and can only afford basic simplex radios.
I'm sure other areas in other states have comparable conditions. Encryption would be a nightmare.
Everyone in Minnesota (State Patrol, County Sheriff, City Police, EMS, Fire) is on the statewide ARMER P25 system. There were grants made available for counties/ departments to offset the purchase radio's. It is a very robust system that I have listened to since my county started using it.
In Faribault County we get some EMS patients from Iowa, and even those are dispatched thru the ARMER system. I am thinking the local Iowa ambulance services have a MN ARMER radio. As when I have heard those calls come in, I can see the radio ID number, so it appears it is not "patched" thru our County dispatch.
I have looked in our county deputy cars and all they have is one radio in their cars. I was surprised there were not VHF back-up radios (from the old county-wide repeater system). But I have never heard a peep from any of the older VHF frequencies (except the dispatch fire "paging") that were used.