The Asian medical device community, under the aegis of the Asian Harmonization Working Party (AHWP), may soon develop a consensus on what should be the preferred medical device naming system for the region1.
The AHWP has three options before it – the Global Medical Device Nomenclature, the Universal Medical Device Nomenclature System and an Asian version of the latter that has already been adopted in Hong Kong2, the Asian Medical Device Nomenclature System...
