A Yellow Book for Medical Devices—A Proposal for Public Health

In a co-authored article for JAMA, Professors David Simon and Hooman Noorchashm, together with Dr. Michael Paasche-Orlow of Tufts Medical Centewho serve as co-directors of the Amy J. Reed Collaborative for Medical Device Safety (AJRC), propose creating a patent database for medical devices modeled after the FDA's Orange Book for drugs.