Every medical device has its own unique code, allowing manufacturers to keep track of their products once they enter the market. But while these codes are critical for recalling faulty devices or ...

The Food and Drug Administration has released guidance to manufacturers for submissions to its Global Unique Device Identification Database (GUDID). It deals with how to set up accounts and begin ...

A week after federal legislators and hospitals pressed the Office of Management and Budget about the release of a final unique device identification rule, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration ...

With some notable exceptions, most public comments received by FDA on its proposal to require unique device identifiers (UDI) support both the essential thrust and the details of the proposal.

Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Massachusetts, took the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Service to task on Tuesday for waffling on the policy to add unique device identifier information to Medicare claims ...

Apple's device identifier service for advertisers is being targeted by privacy advocates in two complaints to Spanish and German authorities, reports Bloomberg. A Vienna-based group called NOYB ("None ...

In today’s world – whether at work or at home – I’d be lost without the smartphone that helps me do so much more than just communicate. It knows where I am now and how to get where I want to be next.

Connected medical devices and the Internet of Things have become major areas of both promise and concern for hospitals in recent years. They generate key clinical data – and can enable timely and life ...