Work teams
GS1 Healthcare Work Teams work on clearly defined global requirements for Healthcare standards.
GS1 Healthcare AIDC Work Teams
GSMP Level Below The Each (Unit Dose) Mission Specific Work Group (MSWG)
The lowest level of packaging supported by GS1 identification is referred to as the "each" level. “Level Below the Each” is where items are regularly packaged below what commonly would be regarded in other supply chains as the "lowest packaging level" of a trade item. In Healthcare, lower levels of packaging exist that require identification such as pills dispensed from one or more bulk packages or from blister packs to fill a prescription. This level below the each is also known as the "Unit Dose" level. This MSWG was formed to address the business needs supporting the inclusion of these levels below the each into the GS1 system and provide clear and consistent guidance on "Level Below the Each" and "Unit Dose" identification and marking for use across the spectrum of GS1 solutions for Automatic Identification Data Capture (AIDC), Traceability, and Global Data Synchronization (GDS)..
Meeting Dates: Every 2nd and 4th Thursday of each month
Meeting Times: 7:00-09:00 ET (13:00-15:00 CET)
Process Manager: Michael Mowad
Co Chair: Frederique Fremont, C.H.I Robert Ballanger
Co Chair: Peter Tomicki, GE Healthcare
Community Room: http://community.gs1.org/apps/org/workgroup/gsmp_lbte_ud_mswg/
GSMP AIDC Healthcare Application Standard Updates MSWG
The Healthcare AIDC Application Standards modifications first implemented in the GS1 General Specification v10.0, issue 1, January 2010 addressed the Automatic Identification and Data Capture (AIDC) identification and marking of a majority of Healthcare trade items. Those modifications, part of the Healthcare AIDC Application Standards “Phase 1” work effort, were designed to address the AIDC identification and marking of 90% of global Healthcare trade items. This Healthcare AIDC Updates work effort continues this work with the next grouping of Healthcare trade items that were not addressed earlier. Also necessary and found within this MSWG work, is additional clarification to certain aspects of the “Phase 1” Healthcare changes that are needed to simplify understanding, ensure consistent global implementation and provide continuous improvement for the use of the GS1 System in Healthcare. The scope of this group will include:
- Review and update of the aspects of the GTIN allocation rules for healthcare trade items (e.g. GTIN non-reuse, etc.)
- AIDC identification, marking and labeling of healthcare kits, complex and/or configurable medical devices and software used with medical devices
- Clarification of the use and application of direct part marking in healthcare
- Clarification and update of recommendations for use of Human Readable Interpretation within Healthcare
Meeting Dates: Every 2nd and 4th Tuesday of each month
Meeting Times: 8:00-10:00 ET (14:00-16:00 CET)
Process Manager: Michael Sarachman
Co Chair: Sue Schmid, GS1 Australia
Co Chair: Peter Tomicki, GE Healthcare
Community Room: http://community.gs1.org/apps/org/workgroup/gsmpaidchasumswg/
GSMP Traceability in Healthcare
This work effort is dedicated to enhancing and developing the process and technical standards necessary to ultimately achieve GS1 Member’s Vision for Traceability in Healthcare: Full, End to End, actionable visibility of finished pharmaceuticals and medical devices in healthcare globally, from Point of Production to Point of Use. Read the full 'Vision' here!
Two related Mission Specific Work Groups (MSWGs) are currently active:
GSMP Pedigree Security, Choreography and Checking Service MSWG
This MSWG will define requirements and solutions to update the GS1 system of standards for Traceability in Healthcare which may include the EPCIS standard, a security framework and a pedigree checking service. EPCIS is the standard used to capture event data for the purpose of traceability across supply chains. The solution to meet the specific business need is to enhance the EPCIS standard to support checking of chain of custody / chain of ownership and product identifier authentication.
Meeting Dates: Every Monday
Meeting Times: 11:00-12:00 ET (Princeton), 17:00-18:00 CET (Brussels)
GS1 Staff: Janice Kite and John Ryu
Co Chair: Dirk Rodgers, Dirk Rodgers Consulting
Co-Chair: Frank Schmid, IBM
Co-Chair: Hussam-El Lithey, GS1 US
Community Room: http://community.gs1.org/apps/org/workgroup/gsmppedsccsmswg/
GSMP EPC Information Service (EPCIS) 1.1 and Core Business Vocabulary (CBV) MSWG
This group will create the requirements and solution for the next versions of the GS1 EPC Information Service (EPCIS) and Core Business Vocabulary (CBV) standards. The purpose of these revisions is to address business needs arising in a variety of industries adopting EPCIS, including the Food industry, Healthcare industry, and others. The goal is to broaden EPCIS to support a growing number of industrial users.
Meeting Dates: Every Tuesday
Meeting Times:10:00-11:00 ET (Princeton), 16:00-17:00 CET (Brussels)
GS1 Staff: Gena Morgan, John Ryu
Co-Chair: Andy Kennedy, Food Logiq
Co-Chair: Michele Southall, GS1 US
Community Room: http://community.gs1.org/apps/org/workgroup/gsmpepcis1_1cbvmswg/
A third related Mission Specific Work Group (MSWG) will begin work early 2013:
GSMP Enable Network Pedigree
This group will create a new standard to enable Pedigree validation – a ‘profile’ standard above EPCIS that defines the types of EPCIS events and fields, including specific values of the bizStep field, that need to be captured for pedigree data. It will also define which tests need to be performed to verify pedigree data validity and integrity.
Meeting Dates: Every Monday
Meeting Times: 11:00-12:00 ET (Princeton), 17:00-18:00 CET (Brussels)
GS1 Staff: Janice Kite and John Ryu
Co Chair: Dirk Rodgers, Dirk Rodgers Consulting
Co-Chair:Frank Schmid, IBM
Co-Chair: Hussam-El Lithey, GS1 US
Community Room:http://community.gs1.org/apps/org/workgroup/gsmppedsccsmswg/
Other GS1 Healthcare Work Groups
GS1 Healthcare Public Policy Work Group
The Public Policy Work Group provides leadership in the conduct and interaction with global public policy makers / government authorities to influence the movement towards harmonisation of product identification, data synchronisation and traceability requirements in alignment with GS1 Global Standards. The group also provides a forum for open exchange of information between end-user members on global public policy developments, monitors the global landscape of laws, regulations, directives, etc., around the topics of Healthcare product identification, data synchronisation and traceability, and establishes a framework and repository of global regulations and directives related to Healthcare Product identification as a reference for global members.
Meeting Dates: Every other Wednesday
Meeting Times: 10:00-11:00 ET (Princeton), 16:30-17:30 CET (Brussels)
GS1 Staff: Elizabeth Board, Ulrike Kreysa, Géraldine Lissalde-Bonnet
Co Chair: Jackie Elkin
Co Chair: Nada Adams
Community Room: http://community.gs1.org/apps/org/workgroup/gs1hpublicpolicy
GS1 Healthcare Public Policy Database: http://healthcare.gs1.org/pp/Home.aspx
GS1 Healthcare Provider Advisory Council
The Advisory Council will consist of thought leaders and early adopters of GS1 Healthcare Standards from the global clinical provider environment (e.g. hospitals, retail and hospital pharmacies, clinics, care homes etc.). It will identify projects that support the adoption of GS1 Healthcare Standards in Healthcare institutions and retail pharmacies in order to improve patient safety, cost efficiency and staff productivity, ultimately ensuring that Healthcare trading partners, wherever they are in the world, are able to fully operate in an increasingly e-driven global supply chain reality.
The GS1 Healthcare Provider Advisory Council (HPAC) has introduced two awards: the Recognition Reward and the Best Provider Implementation Case Study Award. The Recognition Award is for an individual who has contributed highly to the GS1 Healthcare work efforts over the years. The Best Provider Implementation Case Study Award rewards a provider organisation/department (i.e. hospitals, clinics, care homes, retail and hospital pharmacies), or an individual within a provider organisation, that has implemented GS1 Standards for at least one process in their hospital/clinic/care home/pharmacy/department.
Submit a relevant case study now for a chance to win a trip to the next conference. Application forms can be downloaded here
Apply for GS1 Healthcare Provider Recognition Award here
