{"id":176526,"date":"2020-05-25T19:29:00","date_gmt":"2020-05-26T00:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2020\/05\/25\/support-right-to-repair-legislation\/"},"modified":"2020-05-25T19:29:00","modified_gmt":"2020-05-26T00:29:00","slug":"support-right-to-repair-legislation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2020\/05\/25\/support-right-to-repair-legislation\/","title":{"rendered":"Support Right to Repair Legislation"},"content":{"rendered":"
The hobbyist repair site iFixit<\/i> has released a large online database of repair instructions for ventilators<\/a>, which means that hospitals who desperately want to keep their equipment running will have an alternative to the overpriced, and frequently unavailable, support from the manufacturer and their distributors:<\/div>\n

Teardown and repair website iFixit<\/i> has just posted what its CEO Kyle Wiens says is \u201cthe most comprehensive online resource for medical repair professionals.\u201d The new database<\/a> contains dedicated sections for clinical, laboratory, and medical support equipment, in addition to numerous other categories of devices. It also provides more than 13,000 manuals from hundreds of medical device manufacturers. <\/p>\n

Wiens says the effort began with a crowdsourcing campaign to collect repair information for hospital equipment, with a focus on \u201cventilator documentation, anesthesia systems, and respiratory analyzers \u2014 devices widely used to support COVID-19 patients.\u201d But the effort grew from there, spanning more than two months as iFixit<\/i> added dozens more staff members to the project; began talking to more biomedical technicians, doctors, and nurses about their day-to-day needs; and started collecting and cataloging information from libraries and other sources. <\/p>\n

\u201cHospitals are having trouble getting service information to fix medical equipment \u2014 and it\u2019s not just a COVID-19 problem. We\u2019ve heard countless stories from biomedical technicians (biomeds, for short) about how medical device manufacturers make their jobs more difficult by restricting access to repair information,\u201d Wiens writes in iFixit<\/i>\u2019s blog post about the new database<\/a>. \u201cThanks to travel limitations, the problem is bigger than ever. Manufacturer service reps can\u2019t keep pace with the growing demand for repair of critical hospital equipment. Even if they could, they can\u2019t respond as quickly as the biomeds, already at the front lines.\u201d <\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Needless to say, OEMs hate right to repair, because it cuts out a profit stream.<\/p>\n

To them, I say, f%$# you, without lube.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The hobbyist repair site iFixit has released a large online database of repair instructions for ventilators, which means that hospitals who desperately want to keep their equipment running will have an alternative to the overpriced, and frequently unavailable, support from the manufacturer and their distributors: Teardown and repair website iFixit has just posted what its …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[817],"class_list":["post-176526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176526"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176526"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176526\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}