The Food and Drug Administration has released a final rule to begin requiring medical device manufacturers to include unique tracking codes on medical devices.
The use of unique device identifiers is intended to improve patient safety by allowing FDA regulators to track devices on a unit level and recall defective products more easily.
The UDIs will be phased in over the next seven years, beginning with high-risk devices like pacemakers and artificial joints.
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