Aloha Biomedical | Medical Equipment Repair, Maintenance & Field Service

Hospitals run on equipment. Equipment runs on us.

Aloha Biomedical Services is the islands' partner for medical equipment repair, calibration, and preventive maintenance. From Honolulu to Hilo, we keep imaging suites bright, ORs ready, and isolated power systems certified — even with the salt air working against us.

Educational

After the March Floods: A CMS Public Health Emergency Playbook for Hawai'i Biomeds

HHS Secretary Kennedy signed a Public Health Emergency declaration for the State of Hawai'i on April 21 in response to the severe storms, flooding, landslides, and mudslides that began March 10. Among the immediate flexibilities: Medicare beneficiaries who lost or damaged DME, prosthetics, orthotics, and supplies are eligible for replacement. Here's our checklist for hospital biomed teams: how to prioritize re-commissioning of patient-affecting equipment, the documentation chain CMS will accept for replaced inventory, and the corrosion / contamination tests we recommend before re-deploying anything that took standing water.

May 5, 202610 min readBy Aloha Biomedical Field Engineering

Informative

HPH–HMSA "One Health Hawaii" Briefings Continue: What a Statewide Plan-and-Provider Merger Could Mean for Equipment Standards

State lawmakers are still pressing executives from Hawaii Pacific Health and HMSA on the proposed One Health Hawaii partnership, which the parties say will save roughly $2 billion in administrative costs over a decade. We outline how a unified health system could consolidate equipment-procurement standards across HPH facilities — and what the existing CSRA contracts mean for current biomedical service providers in the islands.

May 12, 20266 min read

Field Notes

Dispatch From Hilo: The Infusion Pump That Only Failed When the Trade Winds Shifted

An intermittent occlusion alarm that nobody could reproduce in the shop. Three site visits, one barometer, and a humidity logger later — turns out the housing seal was breathing. A short story about why our techs travel with weather data.

May 19, 20264 min read

Routes across the eight

We run scheduled service days on Oahu (Honolulu, Pearl City, Kapolei), Maui (Wailuku, Kahului, Lahaina), Hawai'i Island (Hilo, Kona, Waimea), and Kaua'i (Lihue) with on-call inter-island dispatch for urgent equipment failures.

Our techs travel with the part, the documentation, and the regulatory context. No phone tag, no second visits.