27th Global GS1 Healthcare Conference - post event website
21 - 23 April 2015, Mexico City, Mexico
The Power of Global Standards in Healthcare
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Presentations
Day 1 - Tuesday 21 April
Plenary Session on Hospital Implementation
- Welcome to conference, Marianne Timmons, GS1 Global Office
- Welcome, Mario de Agüero, GS1 Mexico
- Key address, COFEPRIS, Mexico & Representative of Mexican Ministry of Health, Mexico (no slides)
- GS1 Healthcare working with hospitals, pharmacies and patients, key stakeholders
- Improved patient safety using GS1 standards, Feargl Mc Groarty, St James’s Hospital, Ireland
- Implementation of traceability in a hospital pharmacy, Dra Estela Izquierdo, Sanatorio Güemes, Argentina
- IHF and GS1 working together – Implementation in French hospitals, Jean-Michel Descoutures, IHF
- Patient Safety through traceability of pharmaceutical products using GS1 standards, Victor López, Fundación Valle del Lili, Colombia
- HPAC awards:
Implementation Reality Sessions
- Bedside scanning
- Where and how to start implementing GS1 standards in a hospital
Day 2 - Wednesday 22 April
Plenary session on Traceability
- U.S. Drug Supply Chain Security Act update, Connie Jung, U.S. FDA
- Rx360 Traceability Data Exchange Architecture (TDEA) Work Group, Lloyd Mager, AbbVie
- Brazilian Serialisation and Traceability Regulation – Challenges and Opportunities, Leandro Oliveira, Johnson & Johnson
- APEC Roadmap and the Work Group on Track & Trace, Connie Jung, U.S. FDA
- ABAC pilot, John Steele, Senior Director, International Government Affairs, Eli Lilly and Company
Ask the Experts Session
- Identification and marking of multi-country packaging, Grant Courtney, GSK
- Marking with GS1 DataMatrix, Chuck Biss, GS1 Global Office; Daniel Chaves, CEFA,
- Serialisation, Peggy Staver, Pfizer
EPCIS introduction (Working Lunch)
Implementation Reality Sessions
- EPCIS enabling interoperable data exchange for traceability – no slides
- Traceability of pharmaceuticals (EFPIA slides)
- Traceability of pharmaceuticals (Pfizer slides)
- Unique Device Identification (UDI): introductory session – AIDC & GDSN
Day 3 - Thursday 23 April
Plenary Unique Device Identification & Closing plenary
- US FDA UDI Rule update, Linda Sigg, U.S. FDA
- UDI – experiences and challenges of implementation of the UDI rule, Jay Crowley, USDM
- Strategy and results (roadmap) for UDI, Ben Moscovitch, The Pew Charitable Trusts, U.S.
- Implementation of GS1 standards, Juan Pablo Solis, BD Mexico
- ANMAT regulation for medical devices, Andrea Rodriguez, Medtronic
- Leveraging the “G” in the Global Data Synchronisation Network
- USAID | DELIVER PROJECT piloting GS1 standards, Muhammad Tariq, JSI
- Invitation to next conference in Budapest, Zsófia Burányi, GS1 Hungary
Photos
Poster Session
Australia: NSW Health procures the benefits from implementing GS1 standards and services
France: New generation of French hospitals: GS1 standards for better care
Global Office: Innovation Board
Hungary: Healthcare Demo Scanner 2.0
Ireland: Safer Surgery Saves Lives
UK: GS1 standards are helping the NHS
UK: How NHS South of England Procurement Services are using our standards
About the conference
Held twice per annum, the Global GS1 Healthcare Conference is a key event for sharing information to the GS1 Healthcare community. Healthcare leaders from private industry and government agencies will present the progress of worldwide efforts to implement GS1 standards that improve patient safety, supply chain security and efficiency.
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Why should you join?
The three-day conference combines plenary sessions, implementation reality sessions (small working groups), working lunches, introductory sessions and many opportunities to network. The conference kicks off with examples of GS1 standards implementations in hospitals which demonstrates the benefits global standards bring to providers as well as patients. Attend the conference and learn how the traceability of products across the healthcare supply chain eliminates counterfeit medicines, increases patient safety and complies with regulations. Last but not least, get the latest status on UDI around the world and on other initiatives regarding track & trace for medical devices.
Fees
- Non-global member: 950€
- Global member: 650€ (see list of global members)
- GS1 Member Organisation: 200€
- Regulatory Body/association: Fee excemption