Work teams

GS1 Healthcare Work Teams work on clearly defined global requirements for Healthcare standards.

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Activities of current work teams:

AIDC Application Standards Work Team

This work team is developing the global standards for the automatic identification and data capture for Healthcare products at all packaging levels from finished goods at manufacture to the end of treatment at the Healthcare facility. The team's work is based on business, data, serialisation and carrier requirements provided by other work teams.

This work team is co-chaired by Mark Hoyle, Covidien and Grant Hodgkins, Alcon Laboratories.

For more information or if you would like to join the AIDC Application Standards Work Team, contact Tom Heist at tom.heist@gs1.org

Global Healthcare Data Synchronisation and Product Classification Work Teams

These Global Healthcare Data Synchronisation and Product Classification Work Teams are working on a data synchronisation standard, including a classification solution, which will allow the Healthcare industry to use the GS1 GDSN (Global Data Synchronisation Network).

The Data Synchronisation Work Team is co-chaired by Joe Pleasant, Premier and Tom Werthwine, Johnson & Johnson.

The Product Classification Work Team is co-chaired by Leighton Hansel, Abbott Laboratories and David Turner, Novation.

For more information or if you would like to join the Data Synchronisation or Product Classification work teams, contact Peter Alvarez at palvarez@gs1gdsn.org

Traceability in Healthcare Work Team

The Traceability work team is defining the global solution for traceability in Healthcare to ensure that the business needs of the industry are fulfilled, including ensuring global traceability in an efficient, secure and reliable way, addressing restrictive legal requirements, addressing authentication from manufacturer to patient, and achieving cross-industry interoperability.

The Traceability in Healthcare Work Team is chaired by Tim Marsh, Pfizer and Frédérique Fremont, Robert Ballanger Hospital.

For more information or if you would like to join the Traceability in Healthcare Work Team, contact Janice Kite at janice.kite@gs1.org

Accomplishments of past work teams:

Over the last few years, a number of work teams have already completed their projects, including:

• Defined allocation rules for Global Trade Item Numbers (GTIN) for pharmaceutical and medical device products.

• Developed the EPCglobal Pedigree Messaging Standard.

• Defined the business requirements for the data content of Healthcare products for applications of automatic identification data capture systems.

• Defined the need for marking of instruments and implants based on the practical applications in the hospital and the technical feasibility.

• Identified serial and lot number size and capacity.

• 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.

• Defined the standards development process optimised for the Healthcare industry.

• Developed database of regulatory requirements regarding automatic identification of medical products worldwide and business reasons for those.

• Defined the case for global standards in applications of automatic identification data capture systems.