Healthcare providers took centre stage to share how the use of GS1 standards in hospitals is helping to drive efficiencies, savings and, most importantly, patient safety.

Clinicians and pharmacists are closely collaborating with their supply chain peers to transform and automate long-held processes for greater transparency throughout hospitals—and the results are nothing less than impressive.

Professor Terence Stephenson, Chair, General Medical Council, UK highlighted the important role that GS1 standards can play to support a safety culture within the hospital environment.
By using GS1 standards, hospitals are showing impressive system-level evidence of increased patient safety and ROI. In the Netherlands, patients can check for recall status, using the Dutch Breast Implant Registry with more than 40,000 implants entered. Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust in the UK has identified £1.489 million across improved processes.
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Mr. Keith Jones, Clinical Director of Surgery, Derby Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, shared how GS1 standards are helping surgeons. A pharmacist, nurse and Deputy CEO from Royal Cornwall, Salisbury and Plymouth NHS trusts outlined the benefits of using barcodes—much faster recalls (minutes versus days), more time for patient care, reduced stock levels, and improved risk management.
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Gaining operational efficiencies for improved patient care was the focus of presentations by the University Hospital Dresden, Germany, Derby Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Mercy U.S., Intermountain Healthcare, U.S., and Bernhoven Hospital, the Netherlands.
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Mercy explained how it is using UDI data to improve workflow in its operating rooms, ensuring products brought into the OR are efficiently managed and costs per case are accurately captured. Betty Jo Rocchio, vice president for Perioperative Performance Acceleration at Mercy, said, “We’re working to optimise our inventory, ensuring that the products brought into the operating room are efficiently managed and that the costs per case are accurately captured. This is huge for us since it’s how we measure ourselves financially and, most importantly, document how we care for patients.”
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