The Critical Medical Infrastructure Right-to-Repair Act of 2020 stands to give HTM professionals more access to manufacturer data needed to repair medical devices. Some say that’s good; some say that’s bad. 24x7’s associate editor Melanie Hamilton-Basich investigates here.
Sen. Ron Wyden (Ore.) introduced the Critical Medical Infrastructure Right-to-Repair Act in an online press conference with U.S. PIRG on August 6—a bill that would remove manufacturer-imposed barriers to fixing medical equipment during the COVID-19 pandemic, advocates say.
Since March 2015, the FDA has been collecting information and receiving factual and anecdotal comments concerning whether there is a public health and safety issue that warrants increased regulation and oversight of medical device companies and individuals. This issue culminated in October’s two-day workshop of presentations to the FDA, which biomedical expert Patrick Lynch details in the latest installment of The LynchPin.
As the voice of the HTM sector since 1996, 24x7 Magazine always stays up to date on the latest happenings in the industry. And suffice it to say that a lot has happened recently. In this installment of Up Front, chief editor Keri Forsythe-Stephens discusses what's going on and why it's critical to speak up.
IFixit.com, which 24x7 Magazine profiled in depth recently, has received a letter from a medical equipment provider claiming that the website violated its copyrights.