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Finally I am able to post some new info regarding Medical City/HCA and specifically Medical City McKinney. I went rounds with an ER nurse and won and in the process found out some things.
First, I was in the ER waiting to be sent to a room last Wednesday morning and whooped out my trusty SDS100 scanner and began scanning. I was bored! Wasn't long before that drew attention and some nurse came in telling me her Tech heard her radio on my scanner and that was a HIIPA violation. I wasn't even scanning the hospital, I was listen to Collin Co. to pass some time. I jumped up and pointed my finger at her with my IV line narrowly missing her and Said "Did I give consent to have your radio waves access my body? Are you going to help me pay for the RF cancer I am catching right now? Is your radio channel encrypted? Do you know every time you push that PTT someone withing 20 miles that has a scanner can hear you?" I then went on to exaggerate the damage of RF exposure and then the fact that I never consented to have that pollution pass through my body. Furthermore, that her employee was Lying because the ONLY thing I was scanning was the Collin County Sheriff's office and that was a radio system that her little Motorola CLP1110 could not be programmed with. That I would be discussing the matter with my attorney and to go fetch the AMA forms and I'd take my Kidney Failure to a hospital that gives a rats pooh!
I happily scanned the whole time I was there and NO ONE challenged me again afterwards.
Now, for the technical stuff. The Emergency Department uses 1 channel 1 watt Motorola CLP1110 radios on a analog conventional frequency. This includes ER, ER overflow and the OR. The MotoTRBO is ONLY used daily by Security, Maintenance and Hospital administration. All other departments and employees are on a Wifi based cellular network and Text or email each other. They can SMS directly with physicians, departments, department employees Everyone who is anyone has a device issued to them and that's how business gets done. The TRBO is for Security, Maintenance and Administrative AND in the event of a disaster or Major medical event such as another pandemic or say tornado or god forbid, another mass shooting. Apparently this new method of internal communication applies to all HCA properties.
I did not get to Identify the frequency they use because I forgot to pack my SDS battery charger and a USB cable that supports the SDS100's power port. In my hurry to get to the ER in Renal failure I forgot essential things oops ... I'll do it next time ...
First, I was in the ER waiting to be sent to a room last Wednesday morning and whooped out my trusty SDS100 scanner and began scanning. I was bored! Wasn't long before that drew attention and some nurse came in telling me her Tech heard her radio on my scanner and that was a HIIPA violation. I wasn't even scanning the hospital, I was listen to Collin Co. to pass some time. I jumped up and pointed my finger at her with my IV line narrowly missing her and Said "Did I give consent to have your radio waves access my body? Are you going to help me pay for the RF cancer I am catching right now? Is your radio channel encrypted? Do you know every time you push that PTT someone withing 20 miles that has a scanner can hear you?" I then went on to exaggerate the damage of RF exposure and then the fact that I never consented to have that pollution pass through my body. Furthermore, that her employee was Lying because the ONLY thing I was scanning was the Collin County Sheriff's office and that was a radio system that her little Motorola CLP1110 could not be programmed with. That I would be discussing the matter with my attorney and to go fetch the AMA forms and I'd take my Kidney Failure to a hospital that gives a rats pooh!
I happily scanned the whole time I was there and NO ONE challenged me again afterwards.
Now, for the technical stuff. The Emergency Department uses 1 channel 1 watt Motorola CLP1110 radios on a analog conventional frequency. This includes ER, ER overflow and the OR. The MotoTRBO is ONLY used daily by Security, Maintenance and Hospital administration. All other departments and employees are on a Wifi based cellular network and Text or email each other. They can SMS directly with physicians, departments, department employees Everyone who is anyone has a device issued to them and that's how business gets done. The TRBO is for Security, Maintenance and Administrative AND in the event of a disaster or Major medical event such as another pandemic or say tornado or god forbid, another mass shooting. Apparently this new method of internal communication applies to all HCA properties.
I did not get to Identify the frequency they use because I forgot to pack my SDS battery charger and a USB cable that supports the SDS100's power port. In my hurry to get to the ER in Renal failure I forgot essential things oops ... I'll do it next time ...
