Sprinfield, Missouri - A grant recently awarded to Mercy by the FDA could amount to $5.2 million in funding over the next three years. The cooperative agreement supports the development of a new medical device evaluation system. KSMU’s Michele Skalicky has more.
The grant will allow a major expansion of Mercy’s FDA-funded Unique Device Identifier (UDI) pilot project, which was launched five years ago. The idea behind the project is to easily track coronary stents that are implanted in patients. UDIs allow healthcare workers to pinpoint malfunctions in the stents through the use of scannable bar codes and electronic health records.
Read the article by KSMU’s Michele Skalicky.
Source: KSMU
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