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A working group comprised of FDA officials and various stakeholders is hoping to draft a “roadmap” to facilitate implementation of the agency’s unique device identifier (UDI) system, one FDAer said. “The goal is really to develop a roadmap for … various players to understand what the issues and advantage of UDI are,” FDA Senior Advisor for Patient Safety Jay Crowley said. Discussion at the group’s July 16 inaugural meeting covered “a pretty broad view, and that’s what it was intended to be,” he said.
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