A dedicated specific session for GS1 standards implementations is scheduled in the agenda.
This will contain presentations from Healthcare practitioners, who have implemented global GS1 standards and realised patient safety benefits.

Highlighted will be:

• Global overview – Els van der Wilden, Director Healthcare Providers GS1
• The Netherlands: Medical devices implementation in hospital, starting at the OR – Dr. Justin Bitter, Business Manager Focus Factory Bernhoven Hospital (replacing Mr. Liang Yan, China)
• Hong Kong: increase patient safety by introducing bar coding being able to prevent dispensing of expired items and automatically track and trace drugs to the point of issue – Mr. Anthony Wong, hospital pharmacist
• Taiwan: system in the Central Warehouse, Cardiac Catheterization Room and Operating Room, to quickly and correctly identify medical products, reducing medical errors and increasing healthcare quality – Dr. Charles Hou, M.D., FESC