This Malaysian Standard provides rules and guidelines for a medical device nomenclature data structure, in order to facilitate cooperation and exchange of data used by regulatory bodies on an international level between interested parties, e.g. regulatory authorities, manufacturers, suppliers, health care providers and end users.
This standard includes guidelines for a minimum data set and its structure. These guidelines are provided for system designers setting up databases that utilize the nomenclature system described herein.
The requirements contained in this standard are applicable to the development and maintenance of an international nomenclature for medical device identification.
This standard does not include the nomenclature itself, which is provided as a data file.