Hospitals Will Report Which Implants Go into Which Patients Under a New Medicare Measure

Problem the Measure AddressesMedical device recalls happen regularly, and some involve devices already inside people. The device identifier specifies the type of device and its manufacturer. The FDA maintains a public database called AccessGUDID that lets anyone look up a device identifier and see the product it corresponds to. FDA recall notices and the agency's medical device recalls page are searchable, and patients can check a device against them directly. The FDA's AccessGUDID database allows lookup by device identifier, and the agency's medical device recalls page is searchable.