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GMDN and EMDN device nomenclature (Global Medical Device Nomenclature)

Code System Medical Devices licence required

The GMDN Agency is responsible for the Global Medical Device Nomenclature (GMDN) used to name and group medical devices....

GMDN Agency / European Commission, from their own og:description

Other medical devices data models

IEEE 11073 PHD (Personal Health Devices) Information Model IEEE 11073 SDC (Service-oriented Device Connectivity) Information Model UDI / GUDID and EUDAMED (Unique Device Identification) Code System
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Model Details
Steward GMDN Agency / European Commission
Origin European Union Belgium
Layer Code System
Domain Medical Devices
Status live
Access Licence required
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How I know this

Compiled for the API Evangelist data model catalog, then confirmed against the steward's own site.

Confirmed 2026-08-11

Evidence: name evidence 3/4. Found something wrong? Tell me — corrections are cheap and I would rather be right.

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Assessed 33.0% of the rubric

Not enough of this standard was readable to place it in a band. That is a limit of what I could see, not a finding against the standard.

A separate measure from the Kin Score, which rates API providers. This rates how current a standard is in how it is expressed, published and paid for — not how good it is. EDIFACT and X12 score low here and move an enormous share of world trade.

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