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• Position Statements

  • Position statement on Bar Code Issues (2012)
  • Position statement on IT Interoperability (2012)
  • Position statement on GS1 DataMatrix implementation (2011)
  • Position statement on camera-based scanners (2009)
  • Position statement on global approach for automatic identification standards in healthcare (2007)
  • Position statement on design of databases to support 14-digit product identifiers (2008)

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  Publications

  • Acronym Decoder list 
  • GS1 Patient & caregiver ID - Standards for precise patient identification (2013)
  • GS1 DataMatrix - A tool to improve patient safety through visibility in the supply chain (2013)
  • GS1 Healthcare – Raising the bar on patient safety and supply chain efficiency (2012)
  • Reference Book 2012/2013
  • Reference Book 2011/2012
    
  • Reference Book 2010/2011
  • Reference Book 2009/2010
  • Healthcare supply chain & GS1 Standards brochure (2011)
  • Discussion paper on product identification in healthcare – National Health Reimbursement Numbers (2010)
  • The Case for Global Data Standards in the Healthcare Supply Chain by the Michigan State University School of Packaging (2007)
    • Full report
    • Executive summary
  • Swiss position paper on GTIN adoption (2012)

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  Public Policy

  • EU: European Commission releases the EU Medical Device Regulation proposal (revised Medical Devices Directive) (2012)
  • USA: FDA Unique Device Identification (UDI)
    • Proposed FDA Rule published (July 2012)
    • GS1 comments to the proposed rule (Nov 2012)
  • Global: UDI White Paper – Executive Summary (2011)
  • Global: GHTF - The UDI System for Medical Devices (2011)
  • Global: The GHTF Regulatory Model (2011)
  • Global: GS1 Healthcare White Paper on UDI implementation (2011)
  • Global: GS1 Healthcare Position Paper on GS1 DataMatrix Implementation (2011)
  • Global: Public Policy Database
  • Global: Fact sheet – Reducing Medication Errors (2009)
  • Global: Fact sheet – Anti-Counterfeiting (2009)
  • Global: Comments to GHFT UDI Discussion Paper (2010)
  • Global: Response to GHTF UDI-questionnaire (2009)
  • Global: Annex to response to GHTF UDI-questionnaire (2008)
  • Brazil: Response to ANVISA Public Inquiry number 8 (2008)
  • EU: Response to EC public consultation on counterfeit medicines (2008)
  • EU: EFPIA & GS1: a shared vision for product identification in the context of the EU Directive on Falsified Medicines (2011)
  • • EFPIA & GS1: a shared vision for product identification - Full paper
    • EFPIA & GS1: a shared vision – Background
  • Australia: Response to the Therapeutic Goods Commission’s consideration of Bar Coding of Medicines (2009)
  • UK: Response to MHRA consultation on measures to strengthen the medicines’ supply chain and reduce the risk from counterfeit medicines (2009)
  • UK: Response to UK House of Commons Inquiry into Patient Safety (2008)
  • USA: Commentary on FDA Draft Guidance for Standardized Numerical Identification for Prescription Drug Packages (2009)
  • USA: Responses to questions raised by the FDA on the UDI system (2009)
  • USA: Response to FDA questions on Standard Numerical Identifiers, Standards for Validation, Track & Trace and Authentication (2008)
  • USA: Commentary on FDA’s consideration of “Technologies for prescription Drug identification, Validation, Track & Trace and Authentication” (2008)
  • Switzerland: Swiss joint recommendations on pharma product labelling (2012)
    • The avoidance of confusion concerning the primary packaging and labelling of solid pharma dosage forms
    • The avoidance of confusion concerning the primary packaging and labelling of liquid pharma dosage forms
    • The avoidance of confusion caused by pharmaceutical packaging and labelling which look similar (“look alike”)
    • The avoidance of confusion caused by similar sounding designations of pharmaceuticals (“sound alike”)

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  Newsletters

  • First quarter 2013 / No. 26 
  • Fourth quarter 2012 / No. 25
  • Spring/Summer 2012 / No. 24
  • Fourth quarter 2011 / No. 23
  • Second quarter 2011 / No. 22 
  • First quarter 2011 / No. 21
  • Newsletters prior to 2011

News: Announcements & Press Releases

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  Case studies

  • Automatic Identification & Data Capture
  • Global Data Synchronisation
  • Traceability

   

  • Automatic Identification & Data Capture
    • General
      • Germany: Bad Krozingen – ‘Return on investment of standardised bar coding’
      • Hong Kong: Hong Kong Hospital Authority improves procurement process and asset management through EDI and RFID
      • Japan: Medical information support system using Personal Digital Assistants at Kyoto hospital
      • Netherlands: Project Prometheus: Electronic administration within the blood transfusion chain
      • Spain: SAS - ‘Efficiency models in the Andalusian Health Service supply chain’
      • Switzerland: Cytostatic treatment and bedside scanning: Improving patient healthcare at Geneva University Hospitals
      • UK: ‘The NHS Procurement eEnablement Programme – Using information to deliver better healthcare’
      • UK: “Coding for success” Automatic Identity and Data Capture programme within the National Health Service
      • UK: Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust - ‘Integrating information flows in orthopaedics’
      • UK: ‘Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust implements GS1 bar codes and RFID technology to improve patient safety and increase productivity’
        • General
        • Technical
      • UK: ‘Birmingham Children’s Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and the NHS Numbers for Babies (NN4B) project’
      • UK: ‘Airedale NHS Trust implements GS1 bar codes on patient wristbands to deliver the right treatment to the right patient’
      • USA: Keeping an eye on the big picture: Mayo Clinic’s integrated supply chain management
      • USA: Mayo Clinic – ‘Mayo Clinic/Cardinal Health GLN Implementation’
      • USA: HCA - ‘BPOC/eMAR spotlight on performance improvement’
      • USA: ‘Purdue Pharma expands & enhances serialization & EPC/RFID Programs using GS1 EPCglobal Gen2 Standard’
      • USA: ‘Seton Family of Hospitals and BD use GS1 Standards and processes to reduce EDI errors in pursuit of “perfect orders”’
      • USA: Siemens Healthcare Diagnostics: A holistic approach to global data standards 
      • USA: Achieving ‘Perfect Order’ and beyond (2012) 
    • Pharmaceutical
      • Canada: Automating the medication use process: North York General Hospital Pharmacy Services
      • Germany: How category management improved customer service in the pharmacy 
      • Taiwan: Taiwan Food and Drug Administration, Changhua Christian Hospital and GS1 Taiwan advancing GS1 BarCodes to improve patient safety (2012)
      • UK: ‘Moorfields Eye Hospital implements GS1 bar codes’
      • UK: ‘Worthing & Southlands Hospitals NHS Trust – Southlands Hospital Pharmacy Production Unit’
    • Medical Devices
      • Austria: Efficiently managing inventory of medical devices using RFID (2012)
      • Belgium: Baxter endorses GS1 Standards as a building block of brand integrity programme (2012)
      • Spain: Stock management of implants through RFID technology
      • France: Robert Ballanger Hospital – ‘Unique Device Identification of surgical instruments by DataMatrix 2D barcodes’
      • Germany: Bar codes at the university hospital of Dresden
      • Japan: Kanto Medical Center – ‘RFID and barcode based management of surgical instruments in a theatre sterile supply unit’
      • UK: ‘Wythenshawe Hospital implements GS1 bar coding to uniquely identify, track and trace surgical instrument trays’
      • USA: FDA to establish unique identification system for medical devices
  • Global Data Synchronisation
    • General
      • Australia: Healthcare suppliers benefiting from Global Data Synchronisation (2012) 
      • UK: Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust - ‘Integrating information flows in orthopaedics’
      • USA: Siemens Healthcare Diagnostics: A holistic approach to global data standards (2012)
    • Pharmaceutical
      • Australia: ‘eCommerce within the hospital pharmaceutical supply chain lays foundation for improved patient safety’
      • Australia: Health procurement leader turns to Australia’s National Product Catalogue to improve tendering
      • Australia: Monash Pharmacy Project – Electronic messaging using GS1 Standards
        • Full report
        • Executive summary
    • Medical Devices
      • USA: Premier – ‘U.S. Healthcare industry to implement common data standards to improve safety, reduce costs’
  • Traceability
    • General
      • Chile: Improving quality of care and patient safety in Chile: Servicio de Salud Metropolitano Occidente
      • Colombia: Supporting the implementation of a traceability system for the healthcare sector in Colombia
      • Hong Kong: Hong Kong Hospital Authority improves procurement process and asset management through EDI and RFID
      • Netherlands: Patient safety and effi­ciency in the operating theatre, GS1 Traceability business case
      • Switzerland: SmartLog – Healthcare Traceability Pilot Project
        • Strategic Evaluation Report
        • Technical Report
    • Pharmaceutical
      • Australia: CH2 – ‘Building traceability in Australian Healthcare’
      • Brazil: Pharmaceutical products traceability system pilot project in Brazil
      • Brazil: Implementing GS1 DataMatrix at Moinhos de Vento Hospital: Ensuring drug traceability and patient safety (2012)
      • Canada: ‘Transforming the Canadian healthcare supply chain: creating the future roadmap for success’
      • Colombia: Deployment of a traceability system by a pharmaceutical wholesaler leveraging GS1 Standards (2012) 
      • Europe: EFPIA Product Verification Pilot Project Report
      • European Union: BRIDGE Traceability report
      • Switzerland: ‘SmartLog: a Swiss drug traceability pilot’
    • Medical Devices
      • Australia: CH2 – ‘Building traceability in Australian Healthcare’
      • Australia: ResMed and GTIN, SSCC and GS1 BarCodes
      • China: ‘Shanghai Food and Drug Administration: Implementation of a post-market traceability program for implantable medical devices adopting unique device identification’
      • Netherlands: Improving patient safety and efficiency in the operating room: Potential savings of €170 million for Dutch hospitals (2012)

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  Videos

  • GS1 Healthcare Channel on YouTube
  • The usage of GS1 Standards in the Traceability Platform of the university hospital CHU Dijon, France
  • EFPIA anti-counterfeiting pilot in Sweden
  • Standardization….Statt! GS1 Healthcare US
  • BRIDGE Pharma Traceability Pilot (2009)

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  Press activities

  • GS1 US Applauds U.S. FDA for Releasing Draft Regulation Requiring Unique Device Identification (UDI) System for Medical/Surgical Supply Chain (2012)
  • GS1 standards ensure greater safety in handling cytostatics (2012)

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  Activities around the world

  • Australia: GS1’s global eMessaging standard GS1 XML has been endorsed by the National E-Health Transition Authority (NEHTA) as the document format for Australia’s health eProcurement strategy. (2007) View full press release
  • Canada: Position papers (2009):
    • Canadian healthcare prepare for global supply chain standards adoption
    • Canadian healthcare service providers: The time for change is now!
  • Canada: ISMP Canada and Canadian Patient Safety Institute (2009)
    • team up with GS1 Canada to advance patient safety in Canada
    • endorse GS1 Standards
  • Canada: Endorsement by HealthPRO and Medbuy (2008)
  • Canada: Endorsement by CareNET (2008)
  • Chile: Endorsement by Cenabast (2008, in Spanish)
  • Europe: Council of Europe: The Council of Europe’s Expert Group on Safe Medication Practices makes a strong recommendation to use the GS1 System. Download the full report. (2007)
  • Europe: Eucomed position paper on bar code guidance (2007)
  • India: Ministry of Health and Family Welfare announcement on GS1 Standards (2009)
  • Netherlands: Endorsement by NFU (National Federation of University Medical Centers) (2008)
  • New Zealand: New Zealand Ministry of Health announces Medication Safety Project. (2007)
  • UK: The UK Department of Health has issued guidelines saying they support GS1 standards. Read the guidelines. (2007) Read the guidelines
  • USA: AHRMM (Association for Healthcare Resource & Materials Management) “The State of Healthcare Logistics. Cost and Quality Improvement Opportunities.” (2009)
  • USA: Endorsement by HIGPA (Health Industry Group Purchasing Association) (2009)
  • USA: EPCglobal Industry Adoption Task Force Roadmap (2008)
  • WHO: Country Planning Cycle Database

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