Unique Device Identification

AIM North America Announces New Committee Leaders

AIM North America (AIM NA), the Association for Automatic Identification and Mobility in North America, reports the following new committee leaders for 2013:

  • Tom Dills, President of Elder Mountain Associates LLC (Warner Robbins, GA) will lead the UID Suppliers Alliance.
  • George Wright, IV, Vice President, Product Identification & Processing Systems Inc. (Port Chester, NY), will lead the UDI Committee.

These industry experts have been elected chair of their respective committees for one year.

Medical Device Companies Prepare To Implement Unique Device Identification

With a final rule from FDA for UDI expected this year, device makers have accelerated development of a UDI system. As a first step, “labelers” need to adopt a system for issuing UDIs from an issuing agency accredited by FDA. Support continues to grow in the supply chain for the GS1 System of Standards, embraced by early innovators pushing for a global standard for device identification and tracking.
In an interview with PMPN, Siobhan O’Bara, senior vice president, industry engagement, GS1 US discusses issues raised by manufacturers in comments on the proposed rule, and the advantages of using GS1’s system.
[Editor’s note: Siobhan O’Bara will join Jay Crowley, senior advisor patient safety, FDA, and panelists from Medtronic, GHX, and Premier speaking on Creating a Roadmap For UDI Compliance at the upcoming MD&M West trade show and conference, Feb. 11-14 in Anaheim, CA.]

Device Firms Seek More Time On Unique Device ID

As the provider community stresses prompt implementation, manufacturers call for clarifications to the proposed UDI regulation and extended compliance timelines.
 
While industry generally supports the objectives of a unique identification system for medical devices, implementing it will take longer than envisioned by FDA in its proposed regulation, according to some device manufacturers responding to the agency on the proposed rule.
In comments submitted to the agency (www.regulations.gov; Docket No.
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UDI Proposal Tacks on Standardized Dating

HIBCC Standards and FDA’s Proposed UDI Rule

An identification standards body speaks out on the draft regulation for medical devices.
The Health Industry Business Communications Council (HIBCC; www.HIBCC.org) was originally established in the United States in 1983 to develop bar code standards for use in the healthcare supply chain. Its bar code standard is internationally accredited and widely deployed. FDA in its recent proposed rule for Unique Device Identification (UDI) addressed the importance of leveraging existing standards, such as those administered by HIBCC. PMP News reached out to HIBCC’s CEO, Robert A.
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Direct Part Marking

Many challenges are likely to come to medical device manufacturers’ minds as they dissect FDA’s proposed rule for Unique Device Identification (UDI), but direct part marking (DPM) could pose one of the biggest.

The agency’s proposal would require most medical devices distributed in the United States to bear UDI, and in certain instances UDI would need to be marked directly on the device. These include devices that would remain in use for extended periods of time and would be likely to become separated from their labeling, the draft reads.

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GS1 Working Ahead of Mandates

No national requirement for pharmaceutical track and trace has materialized to supersede California’s 2015 law, and Unique Device Identification has just been proposed in draft form.

With U.S. mandates slowly emerging, pharmaceutical and medical device companies should consider business needs as they prepare for unique product coding, GS1 representatives urge. The identification standards organization promotes its systems for standardizing product identification throughout the supply chain.

Health Systems Group Seeks GS1 Standards

Speakers at GS1 Connect in June shared several business reasons to standardize product identification. Health systems representatives spoke of efficiencies that standardized identification could bring in product and patient identification and tracking as well as improvements in billing, ordering, and inventory. Many spoke of the need for standards, such as the GS1 family of standards.

FDA Proposes Unique Device Identification

FDA clarifies its proposed mandate, but still has 35 questions for stakeholders.

Advising FDA on Unique Device Identification

AIM North America has formed a new committee to address FDA’s forthcoming Unique Device Identification (UDI) proposed rule. The AIM-NA UDI committee will offer recommendations for a final rule as well as implementation models that are sensible and address the need for interoperability with other national and international unique device and unique item identification requirements.

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