Better Standardize Unique Device IDs, Providers Tell Feds
This article was originally published in The Silver Sheet
Executive Summary
Panelists at a recent conference argued the three Unique Device Identification issuing agencies and various automated data capture technologies are making adoption of the system by the health care provider community difficult.
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