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Here's the document it's out of: NJ OEMS JEMS Plan.
JEMS 1 is more or less a placeholder for a dispatch channel. 155.295/141.3 is the planned countywide dispatch channel. In some cases that might be true, but maybe not for every EMS agency.
A lot of agencies don't necessarily follow the plan and have their own frequency or talkgroup they're dispatched on. Some might be on low band, UHF, or 800. Those should be listed in the database, and for that agency, those are its own JEMS 1.
In some cases the document's wrong. For example, 155.2050/192.8 works for Hunterdon county, but is not what's used in much of eastern Bergen County.
HEAR is an old Motorola term that stands for "Hospital Emergency Administrative Radio." It was supposed to be used for hospital to hospital coordination to see who could accept how many of what category patients. It was also used for ambulance to hospital reports. In that plan, the HEAR channel is referred to as JEMS 2.
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post hippa HEAR is no longer utilized for calling in patient reports. everything is done Cellular / MDT now.
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HIPAA (Not HIPPA or HIPPO or....) does NOT prohibit HEAR or CMED Patient traffic
The reduction in Hospital Patches/Notifications is due to "Standing Orders" and other changes in EMS that have reduced the need for the Over-The-Air notifications, it was not HIPAA :roll:
The reduction in Hospital Patches/Notifications is due to "Standing Orders" and other changes in EMS that have reduced the need for the Over-The-Air notifications, it was not HIPAA :roll:
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I worked as both a NJ EMT and MICP (I'm no longer current). Most ER staff is usually "bothered" by a BLS ambulance calling and stating they are en route with someone who is not seriously sick or injured. When I called the hospital and gave them a patient report, their only response would often be, "Okay." Then you'd go through it all over again when you got there.
If someone is very sick or injured, and advanced life support (paramedics) are tending to the patient, the paramedics or medical control doc will usually pick up the phone and call the ER doc directly. Paramedic report is usually done via cellular now. Once upon a time in the days before cellular telephone, they used the UHF MED channels. The HEAR radio was never used in NJ for medical control as it was in other states.
Broadband is coming into the picture. At that point, there will be voice, data, and video capabilities between the crew and physician. That would all be done over cellular.
And, yes, this is not subject to HIPAA.
BTW, neither Newton Medical Center nor Atlantic Health have a HEAR radio license for that facility, so unless it expired a long time ago and they just left the equipment plugged in, you probably won't hear much from them.
If someone is very sick or injured, and advanced life support (paramedics) are tending to the patient, the paramedics or medical control doc will usually pick up the phone and call the ER doc directly. Paramedic report is usually done via cellular now. Once upon a time in the days before cellular telephone, they used the UHF MED channels. The HEAR radio was never used in NJ for medical control as it was in other states.
Broadband is coming into the picture. At that point, there will be voice, data, and video capabilities between the crew and physician. That would all be done over cellular.
And, yes, this is not subject to HIPAA.
BTW, neither Newton Medical Center nor Atlantic Health have a HEAR radio license for that facility, so unless it expired a long time ago and they just left the equipment plugged in, you probably won't hear much from them.
ALS will call the municipal Dispatcher on the Squad Frequency. Ex. ALS to Hopatcong Dispatcher on the 155.295 (Which is Hopatcong EMS). Then the Dispatcher will update ALS.You can hear them on the Squad Frequency signing on the air.I don't know about 155.34, because I don't
listen to 155.34.
listen to 155.34.
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Maybe so, but the licenses don't lie. I looked at Newton and they have several UHF facility channels, but nothing for HEAR. I also looked at Atlantic, the parent company. Nothing for that location on 155.34. So ???
Eventually they'll go through a Joint Commission or NJSDH audit and somebody will have to scurry out and make it right.
It should have been narrowbanded, making it fairly recent equipment. I can understand if it were a roach-infested Micor non-unified T2-2R station with a blue-wired SECODE pulse and DTMF decoder and funky DC remote that's been unplugged for the Mr. Coffee (I've seen this at one NJ hospital when I worked in two-way), but it should have a position of prominence. Maybe. (You'd think.)
That is incorrect. HIPPA has nothing to do with the transmission of patient reports via RF.
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