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Newsletters
Announcements & Press releases
- 6 November 2008: The Global GDSN Healthcare Pilot Team presents its report on the global GDSN Healthcare pilot successfully completed earlier this year. The pilot clearly demonstrated that the GDSN provides the infrastructure to exchange data between data pools across international borders and facilitates synchronisation across the entire length of the supply chain. GS1 Healthcare and GS1 GDSN, Inc. would like to thank all organisations that have participated in the pilot and contributed to this report.
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- 10 October 2008: GS1 sets roadmap to state-of-the-art Global Traceability Standard for Healthcare. GS1 commits to facilitate the development by the user community of a Global Traceability Standard for Healthcare (GTSH) as well as a suite of technical standards as an efficient and effective architecture for all Healthcare supply chain stakeholders. A complete suite of standards for global traceability is targeted for mid 2010 enabling compliance with ongoing legislative and regulatory developments worldwide as well as industry business process needs. GS1 recommends all Healthcare stakeholders to building the necessary flexibility and upgradeability while developing traceability solutions, taking the GTSH into account.
Read the full status update
- 11 September 2008: GHX to become GDSN-certified data pool to accelerate use of GS1 Standards in Healthcare.
Read the full press release from GHX
- 1 Augustus 2008: Amerinet takes leadership role to standardize healthcare supply chain. Amerinet affirmed its commitment to proactively partner with its customers – both providers and suppliers - to adopt and continue to implement GS1 healthcare standards with a focus on driving costs out of the supply chain.
Read the full press release from Amerinet
- 21 July 2008: Premier healthcare alliance endorses supply chain standards to enhance patient safety, reduce costs. First healthcare group purchasing organization to require GS1 standards in contracts to identify, track medical devices.
Read the full press release from Premier
- 10 June 2008: GS1 DataMatrix - an introduction and technical overview of the most advanced GS1 Application Identifiers compliant symbology has been published
View the document
- 4 June 2008: The Healthcare GTIN Allocation Rules booklet is now available in French and in Spanish
View Healthcare GTIN Allocation Rules for Healthcare in French
View Healthcare GTIN Allocation Rules for Healthcare in Spanish
View Healthcare Allocation Rules for Healthcare in English
- 26 May 2008: Members of CareNET Services Inc. (CareNET) has voted in favour of aligning with GS1 Canada. Together, the organizations will dedicate collective focus on making Canada’s healthcare system safer and more efficient through the development and implementation of global supply chain standards.
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- 21 May 2008: To complete its mission of making the healthcare supply chain safer and more efficient through the adoption of global data standards, the Healthcare Supply Chain Standards Coalition (Standards Coalition) is combining its efforts with GS1 Healthcare US™. The Standards Coalition, a collaborative of 30 organizations that represent the entire healthcare supply chain, spent more than a year evaluating standards options before recently endorsing GS1’s standards for organization and product identification as well as its Global Data Synchronization Network® standards.
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- 20 May 2008: Cenabast, the Supply Center for the Ministry of Health in Chile, will adopt GS1 Standards as part of a new initiative to improve the management and quality of its supply chain. From August 2008 onwards, Cenebast will request GS1 bar codes on pharmaceuticals and medical devices. “Adopting bar coding standards will allow us to improve and integrate processes with our suppliers, distributors and customers. This system also offers improvement in security, cost savings and efficiencies.” Mario Jerez, Director Cenebast, commented that “ this constitutes an important step since it provides a reliable source for product information, a base for traceability of medicines and greatly improve response time. … All this helps us to enhance the efficiency and quality of our management, to perform our work better to meet our customer’s needs”. Roderick Stewart, Business and Marketing Manager GS1 Chile, also expressed the importance of the joint development of this standardization due to the impact that has codification in the health sector for notably enhancing the safety of patients, the increase in the value chain logistics and cost savings.
Read the full press release (in Spanish)
- 25 March 2008: 70 UK hospitals to use GS1 System Thanks to GS1 UK's work with the NHS Connecting for Health initiative, 70 hospitals are to begin using GS1 System of standards to improve patient safety. Read the full press release
- 14 February 2008: GS1 Healthcare formally approved
The GS1 EPCglobal HLS Industry Action Group and the GS1 global Healthcare User Group (GS1 HUG) had agreed last year to join forces into one global Healthcare user group. Both groups have now formally approved the GS1 Healthcare Governance Charter and the funding model. The global standards development roadmap has also been integrated and updated.
GS1 Healthcare Governance Charter
GS1 Healthcare Roadmap
GS1 Healthcare What you need to know Fact Sheets
GS1 Healthcare Frequently Asked Questions
- 8 February 2008: The 2007-2008 Reference Book of the International Hospital Federation features a Special Report about "Global Standards and patient safety", including articles about GS1, the New Zealand Medication Safety Project, the UK Department of Health 'Coding for Health', bedside bar code scanning at Brigham & Women’s Hospital (Boston, US) and the traceability project at Dijon University Hospital (France)."
IHF Reference Book 2007/2008
Special Report: Global standards and patient safety
- 6 February 2008:The 2nd International Patient Safety Congress will take place in Antalya (Turkey) from 25-29 March 2008. For more information, visit www.patientsafetycongress.net.
- 19 November 2007: Michigan State University School of Packaging has developed "The Case for Global Data Standards in the Healthcare Supply Chain" for the GS1 global Healthcare User Group.
- 2 November 2007: Healthcare Supply Chain Standards Coalition (HSCSC) endorses GLN and GTIN, recommends GDSN Press release issued 10/22/07
- 12 September 2007: New Zealand Ministry of Health announces Medication Safety Project.
- 4 September 2007: GS1 Healthcare and ICCBBA join forces to advance global standards to improve patient safety. View full press release.
- 13 August 2007: 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. View full press release.
- 20 July 2007: This film shows a case of a tragic medical error in New Zealand. Today New Zealand is introducing barcoding in hospitals (report 1 / report 2) to ensure patient safety. Follow up actions from the NZ Health Ministry.
- 13 June 2007: GS1 and HL7 join forces to develop global standards to improve Patient Care. View full press release.
- 12 June 2007: The 7th HUG Conference took place in Orlando (US) from 6 - 8 June 2007. View conference details.
- 24 April 2007: The HUG was mentioned in a recent article in the Australian magazine MHD Supply Chain Solutions entitled "A HUG to help you". Click here to read the article.
- 13 April 2007: First meeting of the HUG France to take place 31 May 2007. Find out more about Local HUGs
- 02 April 2007: The Council of Europe’s Expert Group on Safe Medication Practices makes a strong recommendation to use the GS1 System. Download the full report.
- 22 March 2007: IHF joins GS1 effort to improve patient safety through global supply chain standards. View full press release.
- 21 March 2007: The UK Department of Health have issued guidelines saying they support GS1 standards. Read the guidelines.
- 07 February 2007: The 6th HUG Conference took place in Berlin (Germany) from 30 January - 1 February 2007. View presentations.
- 29 January 2007: The HUG was mentioned in a recent article in the German journal Management & Krankenhaus entitled "Richtiger Patient, richtiges Produkt, richtige Dosierung (Right Patient, Right Product, Right Dose)". Click here to read the article.
- 26 January 2007: HUG Leadership Team writes a letter to FDA requesting permission to allow labellers to use GS1 Data Matrix bar code standards. Read the full letter.
- 03 January 2007: The HUG was mentioned in a recent article in Pharmaceutical & Medical Packaging News entitled "Unique Identifiers for Medical Devices". Click here to read the article.
- 28 September 2006: The 5th HUG Conference took place in Elancourt (France) from 20 - 22 September 2006. View meeting summary.
- 07 September 2006: HUG members attend Eucomed ETF meeting in Brussels.
- 06 September 2006: GS1 Australia, with the support of GS1 HUG™, responds to the National Blood Authority, Australia. Read the full response.
- 22 August 2006: After one year of successful operation, the Global Healthcare User Group has officially announced that it will use GS1 standards exclusively as the basis for its automatic product identification developments. View full press release.
- 26 July 2006: HUG Leadership Team members and Eucomed ETF members meet with the Department of Health in London
- 04 July 2006: The HUG was described in detail in a recent article in Pharmaceutical & Medical Packaging News entitled "Striving toward a global code". Click here to read the article.
- 21 June 2006: The 4th HUG Conference took place in Minneapolis (US) from 13 - 15 June 2006. View meeting summary.
- 15 June 2006: HUG Leadership Team writes letter of response to Japan Ministry of Health Labour and Welfare. Read the full response.
- 05 April 2006: HUG members attend Eucomed ETF meeting in Brussels.
- 27 March 2006: The 3rd HUG conference took place in Rome (Italy) from 21 - 23 March 2006. View meeting summary.
- 05 December 2005: The 2nd HUG meeting took place in Princeton (US) from 29 November - 1 December 2005. View meeting summary.
- 18 November 2005: Patient safety is the focus of the healthcare industry and regulatory bodies. The second meeting of the GS1 global Healthcare User Group (HUG) focused on gaining an understanding of global regulatory requirements regarding patient safety as well as reporting progress the group has made since the kick-off meeting in May. View full press release.
- 28 September 2005: Two industry co-chairs were elected by the HUG Leadership Team: Rich Hollander, Pfizer (a USA pharmaceutical company) and Volker Zeiner, B.Braun (a European Device company) will represent the HUG group towards third parties.
- 16 September 2005: The 1st meeting of the HUG took place in Brussels from 13 - 15 September 2005. View meeting summary.
- 18 July 2005: Healthcare industry works together to improve patient safety. Leading global companies from the pharmaceutical and medical device industry have formed a GS1 global Healthcare User Group (HUG). Its objective is to lead the utilisation and development of global standards for the healthcare industry, with the primary focus on automatic product identification to improve patient safety. View full press release.
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