HHS Pushes To Incorporate UDIs Into Electronic Health Records
This article was originally published in The Gray Sheet
Executive Summary
The HHS Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology included unique device identifiers as part of its proposed 2015 electronic health record certification criteria, which establishes standards for EHR developers.
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