User talk:Beanie Bo

Right to repair in the medical industry

I feel like if we want more people to care about these issues, we should branch further out from tech companies and really focus on other hardware and equipment in other industries. Anyway... link dump!

Louis' video on ventilators (mostly general info and needs more specific incidents) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JqGiGgRSCI4

FDA report that med OEM's are basically gaslighting the dangers of right to repair https://www.fda.gov/media/113431/download

How ventilator OEM locks (may) have led to more sick and dead during the COVID pandemic https://www.techdirt.com/2020/04/10/manufacturers-refuse-to-allow-hospitals-to-fix-ventilators-that-are-last-hope-many-covid-19-patients/

COVID ventilators https://www.vice.com/en/article/hospitals-need-to-repair-ventilators-manufacturers-are-making-that-impossible/

AdvaMed gaslighting about the dangers of right to repair https://www.advamed.org/2022/04/28/the-fallacy-of-right-to-repair-for-medical-devices/

General article with multiple case studies from Proto magazine of Massachusettes General Hospital https://protomag.com/policy/who-has-the-right-to-repair-medical-equipment/ Beanie Bo (talk) 16:42, 20 September 2025 (UTC)

MEDICAL EQUIPMENT RIGHT TO REPAIR ACT. https://lrs.sog.unc.edu/bill/medical-equipment-right-repair-act UNC

For Hospitals and Patients, We Need New Medical Device ‘right to Repair’ Laws. Crothall Healthcare (hospital network?) https://www.crothall.com/blog/for-hospitals-and-patients-we-need-new-medical-device-right-to-repair-laws/

Congress Will Consider National Right-to-Repair Legislation for Medical Equipment https://www.vice.com/en/article/congress-will-consider-national-right-to-repair-legislation-for-medical-equipment/ Beanie Bo (talk) 16:47, 20 September 2025 (UTC)

Can you please stop stalking my contributions page? :P AnotherConsumerRightsPerson (talk) 18:23, 20 September 2025 (UTC)

I'm sure I'll never surpass you, but I can try! Beanie Bo (talk) 19:02, 20 September 2025 (UTC)

Medical Device Company Tells Hospitals They're No Longer Allowed to Fix Machine That Costs Six Figures https://www.404media.co/medical-device-company-tells-hospitals-theyre-no-longer-allowed-to-fix-machine-that-costs-six-figures/

(Cambridge study) The Right to Repair Software-Dependent Medical Devices https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-law-medicine-and-ethics/article/abs/right-to-repair-softwaredependent-medical-devices/F08B93DD92327BAA34D4D67476A424C9 Beanie Bo (talk) 22:20, 24 September 2025 (UTC)

Ethical and Legal Implications of Remote Monitoring of Medical Devices

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7772635/ Beanie Bo (talk) 22:24, 24 September 2025 (UTC)

Contextual advertising theme article

Serving ads that are related to the content you're viewing rather than tracking your behaviors and personality across the entire web. Who would've thought something so obvious could be so revolutionary? Anyway, it's making a comeback since GDPR.

https://www.forbes.com/councils/forbesagencycouncil/2021/07/22/the-new-rise-of-contextual-advertising/ Beanie Bo (talk) 11:31, 22 September 2025 (UTC)