The US Food and Drug Administration has announced a new system through which it will be tracking millions of medical devices.

The FDA will also be maintaining a publicly searchable database, known as the Global Unique Device Identification Database (GUDID), which will provide a reference catalogue for every device with an identifier. The agency added that no patient information will be stored on the database.
“UDI represents a landmark step in improving patient safety, modernizing our postmarket surveillance system for medical devices, and facilitating medical device innovation. A consistent and clear way to identify medical devices will result in more reliable data on how medical devices are used. In turn, this can promote safe device use by providers and patients as well as faster, more innovative, and less costly device development”, FDA’s director of the FDA’s Center for Devices and Radiological Health, Jeffrey Shuren said.
Source-Medindia