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 healthcare supply chain has seen its share of ups and downs this year. In the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic crisis, product shortages were exacerbated by a lack of supply-chain visibility.

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 ...

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 ...

A group of provider, consumer, research and health quality groups are pushing the FDA to publish planned rules requiring a unique identification system for medical devices. The Advancing Patient ...

A new system that provides unique labels to identify medical devices is being instituted by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Called the unique device identification system (UDI), it will ...

The Obama Administration’s Office of Management and Budget has approved and released a long-awaited proposed rule on a unique device identification system for medical devices. The document was ...

A Unique Device Identifier (UDI) is an individualized alphanumeric signature associated with a single medical device. Since 2013, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has mandated the placement of ...