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1 November 2011

Advent of Electronic Labeling

By Stefan Menzl, PhD, and Sibylle Scholtz, PhD

Today, mobile phones and mobile Internet access are widely used around the world. Information is available at all times and is just a “click” away. 

But instructions for use (IFU) for most medical devices still must be printed on paper and included with every product. By most standards, this is an anachronistic way of informing people.

Will we deal forever with tons of IFUs in dozens of languages printed on precious paper? Or, will there be soon an alternative?

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