ECRI to harmonise nomenclature system with FDA:
This article was originally published in Clinica
Executive Summary
The US FDA's Center for Devices and Radiological Health and health agency ECRI are to develop a harmonised nomenclature classification after decades of managing separate systems. ECRI's Universal Medical Device Nomenclature System has been adopted as the interim standard device nomenclature by the European Commission, while the FDA's system is used as the US industry's standard nomenclature. ECRI said a single term will henceforth be used to represent identical devices in both systems. Where this is not possible, a cross-reference will be established.