Adding UDIs To Claims Is Crucial for Device Surveillance, Pew Tells Congress-massdevice: Two years after Congress mandated in the FDA Safety and Innovation Act that the Sentinel Initiative be expanded to cover devices, there are still technical barriers to making that happen, Josh Rising, from The Pew Charitable Trusts, told a congressional subcommittee July 22. One of the biggest barriers, he said, is the lack of unique device identifiers on insurance claims forms.
