Endoscope Repairs
Once you have identified the unit manager or finance controller or unit nurse in charge of the endoscopy center, and your endoscope with damages , what are your alternatives for repairing it? Where do you send it for repair? What is your most important consideration when repairs to your endoscopic equipment company ?
The endoscopist spends his time on the technical work that , while the financial controller of a health center or hospital holds the purse strings in the allocation of funds to repair the endoscopy and the various work areas. It is very important that both the examiner and the financial controller take correlated action get the endoscope repaired and functioning in very good condition at all times in the interest of patient and clinician safety and creating the optimal efficiency and the reduction of costs.
What then are the centers of the repair and maintenance of endoscopes available?
Endoscopes can go back to the Original Equipment Manufacturers ( OEM) , repairs to all their original equipment they supply them to be repaired. For endoscopes , the market has been in America for at least three big OEMs , namely Olympus America Inc., Pentax Precision Instrument Corp and Fujinon Inc. dominated for many years regarded OEMs to be the only authorized person , the repair and refurbishment perform their endoscopes , with proprietary parts , adhesives, lubricants , technical data and repair manuals.
OEMs must comply with the FDA Quality System Regulations ( QSR) . The repair and restoration process is regular FDA audits and must comply with Medical Device Reporting ( MDR) requirements.
In recent years there has been recent Third Party Repair company called independent service organizations (ISO).
Some ISO is not independent of itself work, but service partners are to the original OEM "and so are ISO authorized aligned .
Some of these OEMs , particularly Pentax and Fujinon offer their authorized service partners with ISO access to proprietary parts , adhesives , training and repair manuals. In contrast, develop to make them compatible to the original equipment independent ISO related spare parts and parts through reverse engineering.
The complexity of the repair is to determine the cost of repair of the endoscope. So the first step in finding a repair service center is to know whether your repair is a small repair or a major repair .
Negotiated financial arrangements with the repair service center can to be adjusted fee-for -service , cost-per- procedure and capitated service contracts , while the ISOs competition on cost and convenience , with some provision of on-site endoscope replacement the repair.
Regardless of whether you decide to get the endoscope repaired by the OEM or have an authorized OEM ISO or ISO Third , is of paramount consideration of patient safety and must not be affected . This is your most important factor to consider in sending your endoscopic equipment for repair .
The endoscopist spends his time on the technical work that , while the financial controller of a health center or hospital holds the purse strings in the allocation of funds to repair the endoscopy and the various work areas. It is very important that both the examiner and the financial controller take correlated action get the endoscope repaired and functioning in very good condition at all times in the interest of patient and clinician safety and creating the optimal efficiency and the reduction of costs.
What then are the centers of the repair and maintenance of endoscopes available?
Endoscopes can go back to the Original Equipment Manufacturers ( OEM) , repairs to all their original equipment they supply them to be repaired. For endoscopes , the market has been in America for at least three big OEMs , namely Olympus America Inc., Pentax Precision Instrument Corp and Fujinon Inc. dominated for many years regarded OEMs to be the only authorized person , the repair and refurbishment perform their endoscopes , with proprietary parts , adhesives, lubricants , technical data and repair manuals.
OEMs must comply with the FDA Quality System Regulations ( QSR) . The repair and restoration process is regular FDA audits and must comply with Medical Device Reporting ( MDR) requirements.
In recent years there has been recent Third Party Repair company called independent service organizations (ISO).
Some ISO is not independent of itself work, but service partners are to the original OEM "and so are ISO authorized aligned .
Some of these OEMs , particularly Pentax and Fujinon offer their authorized service partners with ISO access to proprietary parts , adhesives , training and repair manuals. In contrast, develop to make them compatible to the original equipment independent ISO related spare parts and parts through reverse engineering.
The complexity of the repair is to determine the cost of repair of the endoscope. So the first step in finding a repair service center is to know whether your repair is a small repair or a major repair .
Negotiated financial arrangements with the repair service center can to be adjusted fee-for -service , cost-per- procedure and capitated service contracts , while the ISOs competition on cost and convenience , with some provision of on-site endoscope replacement the repair.
Regardless of whether you decide to get the endoscope repaired by the OEM or have an authorized OEM ISO or ISO Third , is of paramount consideration of patient safety and must not be affected . This is your most important factor to consider in sending your endoscopic equipment for repair .