"I think solar minimum is behind us," says sunspot forecaster David Hathaway of the NASA Marshall Space Flight Center. His statement is prompted by an...
* Attn Moderator: Last post for this item, thank you. Hello everyone, We still have a small amount remaining in stock! All units are inspected and 100%...
"Liar Liar Pants On Fire" is the onlt appropriate response to claims like this. No US-legal FRS radio has a 16-mile range in any typical usage. To stations on...
I am the Radio Officer for the Portage County, Ohio, RACES unit. We are located in Northeast Ohio. Our RACES unit is looking to coordinate training and/or...
Hi Jim I wasn't aware that there were any RACES units in Ohio. There certainly doesn't appear to be in the south west and I was told that the State didn't...
I had to ban him from the certcomms list as he kept trying to unload this garbage onto my members. Just a thought but the moderator might want to do that here....
we all just need to report this person to ebay and yahoo becuse this person just joined the truck driving group i help run and tryed to spam the yahoo group i...
Do any of you use an ARES/RACES database to track people at shelters and triage for mass causality? We do here in Middletown NJ but now we are being told we...
We don't. That's a Red Cross function in our area. Generally we deal with generalities. We have 100 people here.. We need 100 beds, we need more people...
Amcross here in Wyoming has taken it they use their own radio system and cell phone network for relaying information about guests in shelters and such. Peter...
One of the other options when you don't have secure communcations is to assign the individual a tracking number and then the condition or location being...
The best thing that you can do is to assign a number to each activity that would fall under the privacy conditions and transmit them via ARC systems or via a...
During Hurricanes Gustav and Ike, local OEMs in North Texas activated their shelter programs. I was involved as a member of CERT with the Arlington, Texas...
... privacy ... Just to be clear we are sending this information via packet not voice. It is a searchable database by name. The idea of the system is if during...
There is no question that due to HIPPA, information which can identify a patient CANNOT be sent in the clear. Clearly, mass casualty victims would be...
Mario, You say "It is a searchable database by name." Are you sending a binary file created by something like Access or dBase ? Or is this an ASCII text...
From everything I have heard, HIPAA does not require or expect encryption of wireless communications. HIPAA is clearly not intended to handcuff either the...
I just sent you a whole pile of info on HIPAA that I read as making the issue moot. But if you are serving the ARC and they still insist that you cannot send...
HIPPA does not apply to anyone but healthcare providers. Further, ARC is fully exempt from HIPPA regulations in getting patient information or using it with a...
First of all, who, or what agency is telling you that this might be in violation of what privacy law? Personally speaking, I think packet would be one of the...
True that we're not healthcare providers but if a member of a user service asks up to pass a message then our responsibility is to pass the message, not worry...
To respond to a whole set of questions: 1. HIPPA applies to medical responders. The original question references mass casualty incidents. It is reasonable...
Ummm, we have to worry about legalities. We are licenced by the federal government via the FCC after all. The term is accessory. HOWEVER, in the HIPPA matter,...
Hi Schuylar, We should always be concerned. That falls under good practices as well as personal ethics. But I wouldn't lose any sleep about getting blamed ...
Hi Nigel, I'll certainly agree that the message originator bears the primary responsibility. Knowledge is usually part of the equation when it comes to...
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