service and repair manuals for hospital equipment

That’s one of the foundational arguments of the broader right-to-repair movement, which lobbies that regular consumers should be able to repair the products they've purchased-everything from smartphones to washing machines to farming equipment-without violating a warranty. This medical repository is most useful if it is collaboratively moderated by biomeds, with our assistance.The website iFixit has long been known for its electronics repair kits and for its very public stance that repair manuals should be accessible to everyone. Our wiki organization system and collaborative Q&A forum will make sure that this information gets more useful over time. No technician is an island, and we hope to facilitate an exchange of knowledge and troubleshooting. “We also welcome biomeds around the world to join iFixit’s repair community.

We are providing hosting and curation free of charge, and free of advertising, to the medical community,” he said.

To be very clear: iFixit does not make money on this project. “We have built a single, robust, comprehensive treasure trove of repair information for thousands of medical devices. The list of products has grown dramatically exponentially as the documents from biomeds and community members came in. The project started out crowdsourcing repair information for hospital equipment, especially ventilator documentation, anesthesia systems and respiratory analyzers that are widely used to support Covid-19 patients. “Archivists from university and public libraries, research institutes, insurance and software companies, and of course biomeds themselves all donated their valuable time.”

“This has been an absolutely massive undertaking-and we were fortunate to have the help and support of over 200 librarians and archivists from across the country,” said Wien. Some of the documents were not publicly posted until now. This week the company posted more than 13,000 manuals from hundreds of manufacturers, online and available for use immediately. It’s a central, multi-manufacturer library of user manuals and repair documentation for thousands of devices. Over the last two months, half the staff at iFixit have been working on building the world’s most comprehensive medical equipment service database. The database is hosted free of charge on the iFixit site. “We welcome manufacturers to join us and contribute toward an up-to-date central repository for the biomedical community,” he said.

Service and repair manuals for hospital equipment