Work teams
GS1 Healthcare Work Teams work on clearly defined global requirements for Healthcare standards.
Activities of current work teams:
GS1 Healthcare AIDC Work Teams
AIDC Healthcare Implementation Guide Work Group
Currently additions and changes to the GS1 General Specification to accommodate the automatic identification and data capture (AIDC) marking and labeling of Healthcare products with the specific focus on patient safety are in the final stages of development within the GSMP system based upon the business requirements previously gathered by the GS1 Healthcare AIDC Application Standards Work Team as part of their Phase 1 work. This group is being formed to create a globally adaptable guideline for the implementation of this AIDC Application Standard for Healthcare.
Meeting Dates: Every 2nd and 4th Thursday of each month
Meeting Times: 9:00-10:00 ET (15:00-16:00 CET)
Process Manager: Mike Mowad
Co-chair: Valerie Marchand, GS1 France
Co-chair: Clemens Haas, Fresenius Kabi
Community Room: http://community.gs1.org/apps/org/workgroup/implementationguidelinesaidc/
GSMP Patient and Care Giver ID Work Group
The Work Team's Mission is based on the following statement: The care delivery process involves a series of Automatic Identification and Data Capture (AIDC) mechanisms to uniquely identify the patient, the care giver and the healthcare product(s) at the delivery of care to assure patient safety.
Global standards are being created for the uniform AIDC marking and labeling of healthcare products. The objective of this work group is to complete the standards for identification and marking/labeling for the patient and caregiver to enable AIDC applications for the care delivery process as well as unique patient identification for other purposes, such as Individual Electronic Health Records (IEHR).
Meeting Dates: Every 1st and 3rd Tuesday
Meeting Times: 07:00-08:30 ET (Princeton), 13:00-14:30 CET (Brussels)
GSMP Process Manager: Tom Heist
GS1 Staff: Chuck Biss, Christian Hay, Tom Heist, Tania Snioch
Co Chair: Christian Lovis
Community Room: http://community.gs1.org/apps/org/workgroup/patientcaregiverid/
GSMP Healthcare GLN Work Group 09-060
Healthcare GLN Work Group
The healthcare sector requires the identification of physical locations, legal and departmental entities, to support current and future business practices. For this purpose the global healthcare community wishes to engage in the review of the existing and if necessary development of the GS1 standards, GLN assignment rules & implementation guidelines to support the identified business needs.
Meeting Dates: Every 2nd and 4th Wednesday of each month
Meeting Times 10:30-11:30 ET (16:30-17:30 CET)
Process Manager: Pete Alvarez
GS1 Staff: Brian Bennett, Tom Heist, Chuck Biss
Co-chair: Mike Wallace, Abbott Laboratories
Co-chair: Joe Pleasant, Premier Inc.
Community Room: http://community.gs1.org/apps/org/workgroup/healthcaregln/
GSMP Multiple BarCodes Work Group
This group was formed to assess the impact of the move toward multiple bar codes on one end-user package to make it easy for humans and machines to use bar code technology in supply chain and mobile commerce applications.
Some examples of the problems that could occur are:
- a consumer mobile scanning a code designed for back-end processing
- a POS scanner reading a code designed for consumer mobile scanning
- hospital users unsure which code to read due to multiple bar codes fulfilling regional requirements
The main objectives will be:
- to identify potential solutions to support FMCG, Healthcare, internal, and mobile commerce applications and then standardize those solutions
- to support all business requirements with as few data elements as possible in the bar codes (data carriers) so our membership will be able to use as few data elements as possible
- to support all business requirements using as few bar codes (data carriers) as possible so our membership in order to get that data into as few data carriers as possible
- to make it obvious to consumers, end users, caregivers, etc. which bar code on the package is THEIR bar code to make it obvious to machines which bar code is their bar code of interest
The output focus is twofold
- a standard on which data carrier to use (when and how) looking for the best solution at the global level, independent of current legacy
- a standard solution to avoid dual or triple carriers on a package (wherever possible one bar code symbol and not two or more).
Meeting Dates: Every 1st and 3rd Wednesday of each month
Meeting Times: 11:00-12:00 ET (17:00-18:00 CET)
Process Manager: Tom Heist
GS1 Staff: Chuck Biss, Cameron Green, Dipan Anarkat
Co-chair: TBD
Community Room: http://community.gs1.org/apps/org/workgroup/gsmpmuliplebarcodes/
GSMP Traceability in Healthcare II (TH-II)
The Work Team's Mission is "To develop a suite of GS1 Global Standards that enable Traceability in Healthcare. A suite that comprises of the process and technical standards necessary to achieve end to end (raw materials to patient care) global supply chain traceability (that is: track forward/downstream and trace backward/upstream).
The suite of process and technical standards will be the foundation for ultimately achieving the GS1 Vision for Traceability in Healthcare through the incremental implementation of traceability systems that enable "Patient Safety, Regulatory Compliance, Supply chain safety and integrity".
Meeting Dates: Every 1st and 3rd Tuesday
Meeting Times: 09:00-11:00 ET (Princeton), 15:00-17:00 CET (Brussels)
GS1 Staff: Janice Kite and John Ryu
Co Chair: Tim Marsh
Co Chair: Frederique Fremont
Community Room: http://community.gs1.org/apps/org/workgroup/gsmptraceabiltyii/index.php
Chain of Custody/Chain of Ownership Sub-team of GSMP TH-II
The focus of the TH-II group is the EPCglobal data exchange/visibility standards, to ensure they meet the business requirements for Traceability in Healthcare. Chain of Custody/Chain of Ownership (CoC/CoO) is 1 or 4 core use cases identified which will be documented in detail and a gap analysis undertaken against EPCglobal data exchange/visibility standards; this may result in Change Request(s) to these standards. This sub-team is undertaking this activity.
Meeting Dates: Every Thursday
Meeting Times: 11:00-12:00 ET (Princeton), 17:00-18:00 CET (Brussels)
GS1 Staff: Janice Kite and John Ryu
Chair: Peggy Staver
Community Room:
GS1 Healthcare Public Policy Work Team
The Public Policy work team provides leadership in the conduct and interaction with global public policy makers / government authorities to influence the movement towards harmonisation of product identification requirements in alignment with GS1 Global Standards. The work team 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 membership.
Meeting Dates: Every other Wednesday
Meeting Times: 10:00-11:00 ET (Princeton), 16:30-17:30 CET (Brussels)
GS1 Staff: Laurence Genot, Elizabeth Board, Marisa Jimenez, Ulrike Kreysa
Co Chair: Jackie Elkin
Co Chair: Scott Cameron
Community Room: http://community.gs1.org/apps/org/workgroup/gs1hpublicpolicy/
GS1 Healthcare GDSN Work Teams
GSMP Healthcare GDSN Extension Work Group
The objective of the GSMP Healthcare GDSN Extension Work Group is to define additional healthcare data requirements and to build a Healthcare Extension for the GDSN. The new data requirements will enhance the GDSN’s ability to support global healthcare needs. Once the new data requirements are sufficiently defined, including supporting attributes and rules, the newly defined healthcare attributes will be part of a Healthcare Extension for the GDSN.
Meeting Dates: Not currently meeting. This work group will meet one or two more times to motion the Extension; in the November 2009 time frame.
Meeting Times: NA
GS1 Staff: Pete Alvarez and Brian Bennett
Co Chair: Joe Pleasant
Co Chair: Tom Werthwine
Community Room: http://community.gs1.org/apps/org/workgroup/gsmp_g_gdsne/
GS1 Healthcare GDSN Implementation
A global implementation initiative to use the GDSN’s unique position to meet current and emerging requirements for electronic product catalogue data, including pending regulatory demands and commercial needs for reliable product data between healthcare trading partners. The objectives of this initiative include the following:
- Create a single global source for product data in healthcare (drugs & devices).
- Implement a shared, global set of master product data attributes for healthcare.
- Identify gaps to help the industry understand the opportunities and barriers for broader implementation.
- Demonstrate that GDSN can be offered as the single source of healthcare product data for interested regulators, trading partners, and healthcare providers.
Meeting Dates: Every other Friday
Meeting Times: 11 am EDT
GS1 Staff: Pete Alvarez
Co Chair: Grant Hodgkins
Co Chair: Mac Young
Community Room: http://community.gs1.org/apps/org/workgroup/globalgdsnhci/
Accomplishments of past work teams:
Over the last few years, a number of work teams have already completed their projects, including:
GTIN Allocation Rules Work Team
- Defined allocation rules for Global Trade Item Numbers (GTIN) for pharmaceutical and medical device products.
EPCglobal Track & Trace Work Team
- Developed the EPCglobal Pedigree Messaging Standard.
Auto-ID Data Work Team
- Defined the business requirements for the data content of Healthcare products for applications of automatic identification data capture systems.
Instruments & Implants Marking Work Team
- Defined the need for marking of instruments and implants based on the practical applications in the hospital and the technical feasibility.
Serialisation Work Team
- Identified serial and lot number size and capacity.
Carrier Work Team
- Defined the business requirements for data carriers through five sub-teams per product type. Each team focussed on four critical characteristics of carriers: panel size, speed of writing, speed of reading and speed of scanning.
Standards Development Work Team
- Defined the standards development process optimised for the Healthcare industry.
Standards Implementation & Regulatory Affairs Work Team
- Developed database of regulatory requirements regarding automatic identification of medical products worldwide and business reasons for those.
Business Case Work Team
- Defined the case for global standards in applications of automatic identification data capture systems.