This book offers all countries a guide to implementing verification systems for medical devices
to ensure they satisfy their regulations. It describes the processes procedures and need for
integrating medical devices into the legal metrology framework addresses their independent
safety and performance verification and highlights the associated savings for national
healthcare systems all with the ultimate goal of increasing the efficacy and reliability of
patient diagnoses and treatment. The book primarily focuses on diagnostic and therapeutic
medical devices and reflects the latest international directives and regulations.Above all
the book demonstrates that integrating medical devices into the legal metrology system and
establishing a fully operational national laboratory for the inspection of medical devices
could significantly improve the reliability of medical devices in diagnosis and patient care
while also reducing costs for the healthcare system in the respective country.
