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 ...

The practice of adding unique device identifiers to Medicare claims forms now has the backing of both the FDA and CMS, despite previous pushback on the practice from the latter. CMS’ Andy Slavitt and ...

While some providers are voicing concern with the meaningful use stage 3 requirements, a group of healthcare organizations is commending CMS for one element of its final EHR certification criteria: ...

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 ...

A recent blog post in the reSOURCEs section of the HealthTrust public website discusses how the new UDI system will affect healthcare operations. In 2013, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) ...

A U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of the Inspector General report released Monday recommends partial adoption of unique device identifiers in the next version of Medicare claims ...

Under the FDA's newly enacted UDI rule, devices must be shipped with a unique identification label. (Click to expand.)--Courtesy of the FDA Stakeholders including the Mayo Clinic, American Association ...

Intermountain Healthcare is one of very few healthcare organizations able to easily let providers know which patients have a particular implantable device. A supply chain software program feeds data ...

Channeling Johnny Nash and the 1972 classic song, “I Can See Clearly Now,” on July 7, 2021, the Food and Drug Administration issued its final guidance titled, “Unique Device Identification System: ...

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.

A patient safety coalition representing many major healthcare groups is calling on the Office of Management and Budget to speed its review of a proposed rule to establish a unique identifier for ...

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.