21st Global GS1 Healthcare Conference

NEHTA Global Government ThinkTank

Introduction

The 21st GS1 Global Healthcare Conference is being held in Sydney, Australia from 20-22 March 2012. Australia’s National E-Health Transition Authority (NEHTA) is a proud industry supporter of this conference and is hosting an international Government Healthcare Supply Chain ThinkTank, on the final day of the conference, from 1:00 to 5:00pm on 22 March 2012. The focus of the ThinkTank will be public sector supply chain reform in healthcare. The conference theme of When Supply Chain meets eHealth – the importance of laying the foundations in Healthcare will be embodied through the ThinkTank aims and objectives.

The ThinkTank will be for international government (public-sector funded) healthcare agencies, bodies and individuals by invitation.

 

Aims and objectives

The ThinkTank will provide invited participants with:

  1. A global healthcare leaders forum to explore synergies in Supply Chain innovation and reform
  2. Essential understanding of the importance of standards-based Supply Chain initiatives and their link to patient safety
  3. Sharing of benefits and learnings from international best-practice

 

ThinkTank Format

  1. Invited country showcase presentations
  2. Round-table executive discussions
  3. Potential global alliances and synergies formed

 

How to participate

International public sector healthcare colleagues will be invited by their GS1 Country Member Organisation and NEHTA.

 

Further information

Mark Brommeyer, Manager Supply Chain NEHTA - email: mark.brommeyer@nehta.gov.au

 

Australia’s National E-Health Transition Authority and Supply Chain Reform

The National E-Health Transition Authority (NEHTA) is the lead organisation supporting a national vision for eHealth for Australia. NEHTA’s purpose is to lead the uptake of eHealth solutions of national significance for Australia, and to progress and accelerate their adoption through the health system.  Jointly funded by the Australian Government and all State and Territory Governments, NEHTA works collaboratively with consumers, healthcare providers, the healthcare industry, the information and communications technology industry, policy makers and funders towards a safe, secure and efficient health system that will deliver better health outcomes for all Australians. 

NEHTA has made significant progress in developing the essential foundations for eHealth. This includes:

  • healthcare identifiers for individuals, healthcare providers, and organisations;
  • secure messaging standards and a national authentication service for healthcare providers;
  • clinical terminology (the Australian extension of SNOMED CT, and the SNOMED derivative the Australian Medicines Terminology); and
  • a central electronic repository of all medical products maintained by suppliers (the NPC)

The National Product Catalogue (NPC) was first launched by NEHTA in 2006 in partnership with GS1 Australia, hosted on GS1net. The primary purpose of the NPC is to provide one centralised, standardised data repository for all medicines, medical devices and medical consumables supplied to the public health system and private healthcare sector. The NPC is used for the storage, management and distribution of product data between suppliers and trading partners. For the first time, suppliers are able to provide their product data once, to a centralised point, and via the data synchronisation process, have this distributed to the health system and the 1,300+ public and private hospitals in the sector. Pricing data is loaded and made visible to specific trading partners. There are currently around 210,000 records in the NPC, from over 360 suppliers.