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Healthcare
End-to-end product traceability enables safer, more efficient care for Lancashire.
Stock control was heavily reliant on manual processing, and orders and supplies were managed by a li...
Ethiopia: Laying foundations to fight substandard and falsified medicines
Healthcare
Using GS1 standards to trace surgical and dental instruments
Keeping track of many surgical instruments by visual inspection presented problems from a risk manag...
Improving general inventory control at Portsmouth Hospitals NHS Trust, UK
Healthcare
Improving general inventory control at Portsmouth Hospitals NHS Trust, UK
Portsmouth Hospitals NHS Trust recognised the need for better inventory management. It employed GS1 ...
GS1 standards enable optimisation of maritime and ports operations
Transport & Logistics, Technical Industries
GS1 standards enable optimisation of maritime and ports operations
Today’s maritime supply chains have become increasingly complex—stakeholders interact every minute o...
Efficient rail yard processes with GS1 EPC/RFID
Transport & Logistics, Technical Industries
Efficient rail yard processes with GS1 EPC/RFID
Simplified, faster and more accurate management of rail transport in Finland.
Bedside scanning requires cultural change
Healthcare
Bedside scanning requires cultural change
Rigshospitalet is a University Hospital in the Capital Region of Denmark. It is a highly specialised...
Medical device management using GS1 barcodes at Tokyo Yamate Medical Center
Healthcare
Medical device management using GS1 barcodes at Tokyo Yamate Medical Center
Medical device management was a manual process, medical staff checked the labels and made an entry e...
Improving patient safety & quality of care at the National Centre for Hereditary Coagulation Disorders, St James’s Hospital, Ireland
Healthcare
Improving patient safety & quality of care at the National Centre for Hereditary Coagulati...
An ineffective recall of contaminated plasma-derived haemophilia medication prompted the NCHCD of St...