Hospitals have long used color-coded wristbands as a patient safety initiative. Recently, the FDA issued a letter to medical device manufacturers to caution them against using colors for device ...

A long-awaited U.S. Food and Drug Administration proposed rule requiring unique identifiers on medical devices was published July 10 in the Federal Register. See Also: Reduce Cloud Risk in Healthcare ...

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 ...

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 ...