What is UDI? Why is it important, and what does the implementation of UDI look like? If you don\u2019t know, you probably should start learning, and in today\u2019s episode, you\u2019ll hear from two guests with UDI experience. You\u2019ll learn a lot about UDI and learn where to find some fantastic resources that can increase your knowledge.
Laura Maher and Brittani Smith are both Medical Device Gurus and Greenlight Gurus. Their jobs involve guiding companies through regulations and quality requirements and challenges unique to MedTech companies and medical device professionals, and UDI is among those challenges. Both Brittani and Laura bring a wealth of experience and knowledge to the topic.
Listen to the episode to learn the difference between device identifiers and product identifiers, the process of getting a UDI and applying it, then going on with the registration process, and how to think about the UDI requirements that are coming into effect.
FDA doesn\u2019t set a specification for what your bar code quality should be, but depending on who you\u2019re using, your GS1 specifically, they have standards for what the quality of their bar code should be.\u201d \u2013Laura Maher
\u201cJust like Laura, I became a little bit of a UDI expert at the company, just because I got to learn the ins and the outs of it.\u201d \u2013Brittani Smith
\u201cYou\u2019ve got to be careful about contrast and the color that you\u2019re using for your bar code.\u201d \u2013Laura Maher
\u201cFor your surgeons and your patients, the end users, the biggest thing is safety.\u201d -Brittani Smith
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