Medical device salespeople will no longer be able to drop in on physicians or make unsolicited calls to doctors in the Partners Healthcare system without a written invitation.

The Boston Globe first reported the stricter regulations, which are slated to go into effect October 1.

Partners Healthcare’s system includes Brigham and Women’s hospital, Massachusetts General Hospital, the Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital Network and several other hospitals and clinics across the state.

Johns Hopkins University is jumping on the gifts ban bandwagon, following Massachusetts in outright forbidding its doctors from receiving most gifts from medical device and pharmaceutical manufacturers, the Wall Street Journal reported.

The school’s ban (PDF) bars doctors from receiving gifts, entertainment or food from medical device and drug companies..

The federal Food & Drug Administration is gearing up to review 25 types of medical devices made before 1976, the year the watchdog agency got its brief to review new medical technologies.

Makers of the devices will have to submit safety and effectiveness data to the FDA within 120 days, which it will use to evaluate the risk level for each device type.

If found to be “of high risk to consumers,” the devices will have to undergo “the agency’s most stringent premarket review process,” according to a press release.