Category: pirg

Ventilator companies are opening up critical repair documents to the public

Post author By Randall
Post date April 23, 2020
Categories In coronavirus, covid-19, fisher & paykal, ge, gear, healthcare, manuals, manufacturers, medical equipment, medtronic, News, open source, pirg, repair, right to repair, Tech, ventilators

[ad_1] “I want to thank ventilator manufacturers such as GE for providing access to service documents,” Nathan Proctor, head of the right to repair campaign at the PIRG, said in a statement. “When technicians can’t access service manuals, it puts unnecessary barriers to fixing life-saving equipment.” While the need for medical equipment technical manuals is […]

Public interest group tells medical equipment makers to release their repair manuals

Post author By Randall
Post date March 19, 2020
Categories In coronavirus, covid-19, gear, medical equipment, medicine, nathan proctor, pirg, repair, right to repair, Tech, tomorrow

[ad_1] “In order to keep equipment that is critical to treat COVID-19 working with the least possible downtime, medical device manufacturers should immediately release all repair documentation and software, schematics and manuals for that equipment, especially ventilators.” said Proctor. He added that the statistics show that independent repair, not conducted by a technician authorized by […]