The information held within The Clinical Equipment User Manual Library is protected by the manufacturer's copyright and trademarks. The hospital buys the right to use information contained in that User Manual when they purchase the Device and the conditions of those rights remain unchanged. The Clinical Equipment User Manual Library organise and store an electronic copy of that manual for the hospitals exclusive use. This shared database offers the various hospitals the least expensive option with respect to setting up, managing and maintaining this important information.
We do not sell User Manuals and/or any other document supplied to us for storage. The manufacturers' information supplied to us is only made available to organisations which have the necessary mechanisms in place to protect this information with respect to the manufacturers copyrights. The Library offers manufacturers more protection with respect to their copy right than does a CD sent to a individual within a organisation as it is made available to professional nursing, clinical and medical staff only. These professionals are bound by internal confidentiality rules which involve patient information, access to various subscription based libraries from around the world and those rules associated with accessing the hospitals intranet and emails etc. This system allows the hospital to monitor and manage access where as sending out information on a CD does not.
Access to the User Manuals is password protected and those passwords are made available to hospital authorised personnel who will acknowledge the terms and conditions of their subscription each and every time they access The Clinical Equipment User Manual Library.
The average functional life of a medical device is 7.5 years – many last and are used for + 15 years. During a 7.5 to 15 years period it’s very unlikely that the Clinical Staff who attended the In-Service when the device was purchased will still be there so this is a practical and systematic approach to addressing this issue.
Before you request to have your user manual removed from this web server keep in mind that one day we all become patients.
Manufacturers can request not to have their manual loaded or have it removed from The Clinical Equipment User Manual Library and to do so they should fax us a letter and include the following information:
- Your Name
- Your Position
- Contact Phone Number
- Contact Email Address
Please fax to +61 3 6244 7375
