Electronic Adverse Event Reporting Will Soon Be Mandatory, FDA Says
This article was originally published in The Gray Sheet
Executive Summary
FDA is urging device manufacturers to voluntarily adopt the agency's electronic Medical Device Reporting (eMDR) process in anticipation of being required to do so as early as next spring
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