The Food and Drug Administration has announced its proposal to create a unique device identification (UDI) system for medical devices, which will impact both suppliers and providers. The rule itself has its genesis in a report from 1999 stating that…
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Kenneth Pettine, MD, is an orthopedic spine surgeon at Loveland (Colo.) Surgery Center. He is co-founder of Rocky Mountain Associates in Orthopedic Medicine and the co-inventor and co-designer of the Maverick Artificial Disc, a patented disc replacement device for the…
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