{"id":601512,"date":"2024-05-29T14:30:00","date_gmt":"2024-05-29T18:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/platohealth.ai\/design-history-file-dhf-vs-device-master-record-dmr-vs-device-history-record-dhr-whats-the-difference\/"},"modified":"2024-05-29T23:08:49","modified_gmt":"2024-05-30T03:08:49","slug":"design-history-file-dhf-vs-device-master-record-dmr-vs-device-history-record-dhr-whats-the-difference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/platohealth.ai\/design-history-file-dhf-vs-device-master-record-dmr-vs-device-history-record-dhr-whats-the-difference\/","title":{"rendered":"Design History File (DHF) vs. Device Master Record (DMR) vs. Device History Record (DHR): What’s the Difference?","gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"rendered","format":"text"}]},"content":{"rendered":"
The medical device industry has a lot of acronyms. <\/p>\n
The terms DHF, DMR, and DHR (which stand for Design History File, Device Master Record, and Device History Record, respectively) have had associations with design controls<\/a> for some time now, but the similarity of letters in each respective name is enough to cause ongoing confusion among medical device professionals. <\/p>\n To make matters worse, these three aspects of design controls are quite closely related and share a lot of similarities. We\u2019ve created this article to clarify the differences between DHF, DMR, and DHR. Let\u2019s begin.<\/p>\n