24 Apr 2020 - The use of face masks, gloves and other protective clothing has been all over the news in recent weeks. For obvious reasons, we all want to protect ourselves ag…
23 Apr 2020 - We are prioritising term development to urgently respond to enquiries from manufacturers of IVDs for the detection on SARS-CoV-2, the virus responsible for the …
01 Apr 2020 - Over 7,000 new medical device manufacturers from around the world have signed up to use the Global Medical Device Nomenclature (GMDN), the de facto global stand…
17 Mar 2020 - Dear Customers,
Due to the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak and following UK Government advice we have decided to reduce our office opening hours. Our…
20 Feb 2020 - Elsevier, a global leader in information analytics specializing in science and health, is announcing its use of Global Medical Device Nomenclature (GMDN) data t…
11 Feb 2020 - An independent working group has endorsed the Global Medical Device Nomenclature (GMDN) as the preferred method for categorising high-risk implants in the US an…
15 Jan 2020 - Medecins Sans Frontieres (www.msf.org) provides essential medical assistance each year to millions of people affected by conflict, epidemics, disasters, or excl…
07 Jan 2020 - 2019 was an exceptionally busy year for us at the GMDN Agency. The start could have been better, with the European Commission announcing the decision to not use…
25 Nov 2019 - The GMDN Agency is now a Liaison Member of the Asia Harmonization Working Party (AHWP) at their annual meeting in Oman on 14th November 2019. Mr Ali M Al-Dalaan…
05 Oct 2019 - The GMDN was established by the European Commission on behalf of the Global Harmonisation Task Force (GHTF) in the mid-1990s to provide an up-to-date and evolvi…
31 May 2019 - John Wilkinson, of the MHRA becomes new Chair of the GMDN Agency, overseeing the de facto global standard for naming medical devices.
The Global Medical Devi…
01 Apr 2019 - The GMDN, the de facto global standard for identifying the world’s millions of medical devices, has been made freely available to all users for the first time o…
18 Mar 2019 - On 18th March 2019 the GMDN Agency has signed a Memorandum of Cooperation with the Eurasian Economic Commission to enable the member states of the Eurasian Econ…
13 Nov 2018 - The Ministry of Health of Oman organised their first Medical Devices Regulatory Workshop in Muscat on 7th November 2018.
The workshop was held under the patron…
03 Jul 2018 - 1. Assign only one GMDN Term that accurately describes your product. Ask us for help if needed.
2. Components of a system or assembly should be assigned to the…
24 May 2018 - Health Canada is initiating the transition from its current medical device categorization method to the Global Medical Device Nomenclature (GMDN), in order to i…
21 Feb 2018 - The Global Medical Technology Alliance (GMTA) member associations represent companies that produce medical devices, diagnostic products and health information s…