Comments on: MITA Expands Service Standard to Cover All Medical Devices

By: Professor .Shaka

Professor .Shaka — Tue, 24 Jul 2018 12:22:48 +0000

Exactly! I couldn’t agree more.. This seems like a valiant attempt to serve MITAS interests and nothing more. They’re are simply use Safety as a side note to serve as a justification .thanks for sharing such informative and educative post

By: Mark Woods

Mark Woods — Thu, 14 Jun 2018 17:07:03 +0000

It would seem MITA is fixing the problem of competition.

By: C. Morris

C. Morris — Thu, 17 May 2018 23:41:09 +0000

In reply to William Hyman. Exactly! I couldn't agree more.. This seems like a valiant attempt to serve MITAS interests and nothing more. They're are simply use Safety as a side note to serve as a justification ..

By: Craig Bakuzonis

Craig Bakuzonis — Tue, 01 May 2018 20:12:31 +0000

MITA does not speak for groups who do not sell equipment and specifically hospitals who service equipment. At best they can be “Associate Members.” A search of the NEMA standards for Servicing of Medical Imaging Devices comes up with “nothing found” but they do have many technical standards. They need to become an ANSI consensus standard otherwise this statement applies – “Standards are like toothbrushes – everyone wants to use their own”

By: William Hyman

William Hyman — Tue, 01 May 2018 14:55:09 +0000

This action clearly is based on and supports MITA’s self interest on behalf of its members. It has little if anything to with safety or the needs of the user community. And how is it a consensus standard if MITA can unilaterally change it? Oh wait, its a consensus at MITA.

By: Joe Howe

Joe Howe — Tue, 01 May 2018 14:44:48 +0000

I totally agree with Mr. Lynch’s assessment of the situation. This is nothing but an attempt to further limit the already struggling healthcare providers’ ability to repair the equipment they own to keep the equipment working safely as cost effectively as possible.

What if you were banned from changing the brakes on your own car but were instead forced to take it to the OEM controlled dealer? You hold the title to the vehicle but you are not allowed to decide how to best service it. Vehicles hurt and kill many orders of magnitude more people every year than medical equipment yet anyone who can get to the parts store or an online store can order virtually any part on the car and install the parts if they like. How is this okay but suddenly I am not qualified to repair my own IV Pump?

From my experience, in-house service is very often of a higher quality than what the OEM’s service personnel provide because those of us who are part of an in-house program view the patients as our patients and treat each repair or PM as if our own family member is going to be the next person hooked up to that device.

MITA is “fixing” a “problem” that does not exist!