FDA Plans IDs to Track Medical Device Safety

Updated June 25, 2020

You might also be interested in this FDA webpage:

Medical Device Safety Action Plan: Protecting Patients, Promoting Public Health


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It's kind of a twist to think of tracking medical devices like cars and toasters . . .

FDA Plans IDs to Track Medical Device Safety:

"Medical devices like hip implants and heart defibrillators will soon join the ranks of cars and toasters.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday proposed a new rule that would require each medical device to have a unique code that could improve tracking and catch safety problems earlier. The proposal comes five years after Congress first mandated the codes.

While these codes are already present for most consumer goods, in the ubiquitous barcodes scanned at the grocery store, they have been absent from life-sustaining medical devices."

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