[Scan-DC] Blocking EMS scanner traffic hurts the public

[Cathy Drzyzgula]

I certainly don't support censoring but if a patient's name can be
identified through news reports, and their condition through EMS
transmissions, they certainly have lost some privacy.  If victims were never
publicly identified it would be a different matter, as is the case with many
minors and victims of sexual assault.

Cathy D

-----Original Message-----
From: Lee Williams [mailto:leonzo at hotmail.com] 
Sent: Sunday, August 02, 2009 11:40 AM
To: Cathy Drzyzgula; 'Alan Henney'; scan-dc27
Subject: Re: [Scan-DC] Blocking EMS scanner traffic hurts the public

Yes a lot of traffic and details do go out on EMS transmissions since that 
level of detail is needed by hospital and EMS personnel to do their job. 
What has stopped going out on the radio since the enactment of HIPPA has 
been the persons name. So if the information is about "a person" with no 
name attached where is the HIPPA violation? The answer is there is no HIPPA 
violation!