Last September, we wrote about FDA’s request for comments on the use of unique identifiers for medical devices. Since then, FDA received almost 90 comments, many of them from industry. A lot of them ...

Despite Apple's privacy rules for app developers, many iPhone apps still access the phones' unique device identifiers. A study by University of California, San Diego researchers recently found that 48 ...

A voluntary, patient-controlled system of unique identifiers is the only way to ensure acceptable levels of safety and accuracy when exchanging medical information through an electronic national ...

Does an identity have to be unique? I think we’ll get little argument if we claim that, within a given context, an identity (that is, some distinguishable object) must have a unique identifier.

U.S. Senators Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, and Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., penned a Nov. 8 letter to CMS Administrator Seema Verma, asking Ms. Verma to clarify the agency’s position on including information ...

It isn’t every day that the House of Representatives takes bipartisan action to reverse a policy that’s been in place for two decades. But that’s what happened last month, when Democrats and ...