FDA has announced it has proposed that most medical devices distributed in the United States carry a unique device identifier, according to a news release. The announcement comes in response to ...

MINNEAPOLIS, July 26, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- On July 10, 2012, the Food and Drug Administration released its proposed rule for Unique Device Identification (UDI) of medical devices in the United States.

The Healthcare Supply Chain Association has announced it submitted its final comments to FDA regarding the proposed rule to establish a Unique Device Identification System for medical devices, ...

The American Hospital Association has expressed its support of the FDA, which has proposed a final rule for a unique device identification system, according to an AHA News Now report. A UDI is a ...

Today, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), in partnership with the National Institutes of Health National Library of Medicine (NLM), is making data on devices with unique device identifiers ...

In a highly anticipated move, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has announced the final release of the Unique Device Identification (UDI) rule, reflecting a number of changes called for by ...

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced Tuesday, 3 July its intent to implement a long-delayed Unique Device Identifier (UDI) rule, which would mandate most medical devices carry an ...

CMS is supporting the incorporation of FDA's unique device identifiers in insurance claims forms, a boon to medical researchers who would receive a bounty of data about medical device safety and ...

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Device makers have argued for years that not all medical device recalls are the same, and thus the FDA should be more forthcoming with the public about the difference between a recall that is ...