(Roland DG: Irvine, CA) -- Roland DG Corp., parent company of Roland DGA, announced that its medical instrument traceability and maintenance support system project, run in conjunction with Japan’s Hamamatsu University School of Medicine, has been selected by the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) as a proof of concept among the “2014 Industry-Academia Evaluation and Pilot Projects” and will receive a grant to further pursue this project.

In recent years, efforts have been spreading to review medical instrument safety and management procedures to reduce the risk of infection inside hospitals and ensure patient safety. A worldwide trend is materializing among regulatory bodies that seek to have a comprehensive management system for special instruments in use at medical facilities. In the United States, the FDA began multiyear phased implementation of unique device identification (UDI) regulation in September 2014, which requires marking identifiers on medical devices. the European Union and Asia are expected to adopt the same kinds of regulation within the next few years.

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