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TimeSquirrel@kbin.social 10 months ago
They actually need to focus on hospital communications. It's scary what all you can pick up from paging systems with a $20 USB SDR and a laptop.
Bazoogle@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I worked in a hospital, and patient names should never be paged. Room numbers and alert codes are not PHI, and generally they would say “Adult Male blah blah blah…”. Unfortunately, in concrete mazes, paging is still the most reliable (as seen by how easy it is for others to see). And when you’re as important as a doctor, you need reliability.