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 ...

Apple has informed app developers that it will no longer allow apps to use the unique device identifier or UDID after May 1, according to a post on Apple's developer website. Instead, Apple requests ...

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 finalized guidance on the form and content of unique device identifiers used to track medtech products through the supply chain. The final text responds to, but in some cases holds firm ...

U.S. Senators Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, and Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., penned a Nov. 8 letter to CMS Administrator Seema Verma, asking Ms. Verma to clarify the agency’s position on including information ...

The Food and Drug Administration is in discussions with multiple stakeholders to create a universal unique medical device identifier to be stored in electronic health records and linked to patient ...

The Food and Drug Administration has announced its proposal to create a unique device identification (UDI) system for medical devices, which will impact both suppliers and providers. The rule itself ...

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 ...

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 ...

Anonymous has a way of releasing massive collections of information that raise many more questions than they answer. Case in point: On Monday night, the segment of the hacker group that calls itself ...