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
GSMP National Health Reimbursement Numbers (NHRN) Mission Specific Work Group (MSWG)
National Health Reimbursement Numbers (NHRNs) are product identification schemes that some countries and/or regions require, by regulation, as part of their national product identification schemes for Healthcare Trade Items for reimbursement purposes. This MSWG is being formed to address NHRNs that are intended to be encoded in the Automatic Identification and Data Capture (AIDC) marking with a focus on national numbers that are required in the AIDC marking and create a harmonized approach to ease integration of NHRNs into the GS1 system, using GS1 Product Identification Keys to uniquely identify Healthcare Trade Items in conformance with NHRN regulations.
Meeting Dates: Every 1st and 3rd Wednesday of each month
Meeting Times: 8:30-10:00 ET (14:30-16:00 CET)
Process Manager: Tom Heist
Co Chair: Grant Courtney, GlaxoSmithKline
Co Chair: Nathan Habeck, Baxter
Community Room: http://community.gs1.org/apps/org/workgroup/gsmp_nhrn_mswg/
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 Wednesday of each month
Meeting Times: 8:00-09:30 ET (14:00-15:30 CET)
Process Manager: Tom Heist
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 Patient and Care Giver ID Work Group
The care delivery process involves a series of Automatic Identification and Data Capture (AIDC) mechanisms to uniquely identify the patient, the caregiver and the Healthcare product(s) at the delivery of care to assure patient safety. The AIDC Application Standard for Healthcare enables the uniform AIDC marking and labeling of Healthcare products. This Work Group will create standards for identification and marking/labeling for the patient and the caregiver as well, 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, Geneva University Hospitals
Community Room: http://community.gs1.org/apps/org/workgroup/patientcaregiverid/
GSMP Multiple BarCodes Work Group
This Work Group is dedicated to assessing the impact of the move toward placing multiple bar codes on one end-user package. Work Group members will identify the problems and their potential solutions, to support FMCG, Healthcare, internal, and mobile commerce applications, and then standardize those solutions. One key goal is to make it obvious to consumers, end users, and caregivers which bar code on the package is "their" bar code, and to make it obvious to machines which bar code is "their" bar code.
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)
This Work Group is dedicated to developing the process standards and technical standards necessary to achieve end-to-end global supply chain traceability in Healthcare — from finished goods to patient care, for both track forward/downstream and trace backward/upstream. Such a suite of process and technical standards will be the foundation for ultimately achieving GS1s vision for traceability in Healthcare: 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, Pfizer
Co Chair: Frederique Fremont, C.H.I. Robert Ballanger Hospital, France
Community Room: http://community.gs1.org/apps/org/workgroup/gsmptraceabiltyii/index.php
GS1 Healthcare GDSN Work Group
GS1 Healthcare GDSN Country Expansion
This Work Group is responsible for the development of global programs and tools which support the implementation of the GDSN in healthcare. The vision is to achieve critical mass by realizing consistent implementation of the GDSN across the global healthcare supply chain, delivering reliable and trusted data to all participants. Currently the group is in the process of developing several Use Cases which are known to provide value to the end user.
Their deliverables include the following:
- Identify Use Cases and their associated Value Proposition
- Define the essential information requirements to enable end user value
- Identify actions required to accelerate adoption of the identified Use Cases
- Promote Use Cases and the Value Proposition to increase global alignment in markets adopting the GDSN in healthcare
Program Manager: Peter Alvarez
Co Chair: Steve Capel, Covidien
Co Chair: Steve Robba, SA2
For more information contact: Peter Alvarez at peter.alvarez@gs1.org
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: 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 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.
Accomplishments of past work teams:
Over the last few years, a number of work teams have already completed their projects, including:
AIDC Healthcare Implementation Guide Work Group
This Work Group is dedicated to creating guidelines for the implementation of the AIDC Application Standard for Healthcare. The guidelines under development will be adaptable to the capabilities and market needs of different countries and/or regions, so that GS1 Member Organisations can provide appropriately tailored documentation, guides and services for their member companies.
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/
GDSN Healthcare
Completed the GDSN Healthcare Extension
Created two healthcare-specific GPC brick codes, one for drugs and one for medical devices. Read the announcement.
Complete global GDSN Healthcare pilot. Read it here.
Completed phase 1 and 2 of the Global GDSN Healthcare Implementation Initiative. Read about this initiative here.
GSMP Healthcare GLN Work Group 09-060
The Healthcare sector needs to be able to identify physical locations, legal entities and departmental entities to support current and future business practices. This Work Group has conducted a review of the existing Global Location Number (GLN) assignment rules and their associated implementation guidelines to determine if they properly support the business needs of the Healthcare sector.
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 Traceability in Healthcare I WG 08/201
- developed the Global Traceability Standard for Healthcare (GTSH) and the Traceability in Healthcare Implementation Guidelines (GTSH IG)
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.