A recent RAPS (Regulatory Affairs Professional Society) article examined the recent establishment of International Medical Device Regulator Forum (IMDRF), a successor of Global Harmonization Task Force (GHTF) with a focus on international regulatory compliance.

There are a lot of interesting areas of work IMDRF is currently working on, for example Unique Device Identification (UDI) , National Competent Authority Report (NCAR) postmarket performance monitoring for globally-sold devices.

Read more on the published article on Regulatory Focus. 

Regulators, Industry Discuss Potential Impact of IMDRF

http://www.imdrf.org/index.asp