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Weird, as the other commenter mentioned their's in the UK don't have patient information in them. In fact the medical professional I know in Canada have pagers that give essentially the same information about the UK commenters. It's either an extension to call, or for a code.

Maybe countries like the UK and Canada are more strict about personal health information and have kept personal info out of pagers? I know working in healthcare systems in Canada I would get in trouble even if I used a medical software to look myself up in it.

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Here's a Canada example (apparently patient transport coordination, fixed after media attention): https://www.ctvnews.ca/health/pager-systems-used-in-healthca...

[Fogest]

Ah, interesting. The only people I've actually talked to before about the pagers were from Ontario and the healthcare is mostly managed at the provincial level. So not sure if this was a problem in Ontario or not. I am sure at some point all the hospitals were doing this and eventually switched over to the new way that doesn't do this.

However being a 911 dispatcher for the EMS system here I can say that our radios are not encrypted and can be listened to online by anyone. We mention addresses, chief complaints, and anything else that may be relevant for the paramedics. Patient names would not be given over radios nor would other private info like if the building has an access code. Anything that is private like that is indicated to the paramedics by saying something like "call for access code". Then they call the landline and get the info that way.

In my opinion though, knowing addresses and medical conditions going on can still be a bit sensitive in nature. The police here recently switched to encrypted radios. It was nice sometimes to listen to the scanner, but at the same time it's understandable why it's less than ideal having open radios.