Unique Device Identifiers for Medical Devices at 10 Years

Sanket S Dhruva; Joseph S Ross; Natalia A Wilson

doi:10.1001/jamainternmed.2023.3572

Unique Device Identifiers for Medical Devices at 10 Years

JAMA Intern Med. 2023 Oct 1;183(10):1045-1046. doi: 10.1001/jamainternmed.2023.3572.

Authors

Sanket S Dhruva^{1

2}, Joseph S Ross^{3

4}, Natalia A Wilson^{5

6}

Affiliations

¹ Section of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, School of Medicine, San Francisco.
² San Francisco Veterans Affairs Health Care System, San Francisco, California.
³ Section of General Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut.
⁴ Department of Health Policy and Management, Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, Connecticut.
⁵ Center for Healthcare Delivery and Policy, Arizona State University, Phoenix.
⁶ College of Health Solutions, Arizona State University, Phoenix.

PMID: 37603351
DOI: 10.1001/jamainternmed.2023.3572

No abstract available

Plain language summary

This Viewpoint discusses the next steps to realize the public health promise of using unique device identifiers in health information data and outlines the progress and challenges in implementation over the past 10 years.

Publication types

Editorial
Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural

MeSH terms

Humans
Product Surveillance, Postmarketing*
United States
United States Food and Drug Administration