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Healthcare
Reducing the global impact of environmentally harmful anaesthetic gases using a medical de...
95% of anaesthetic gases used in an operation are not metabolised by the patient so a significant pr...
CareScan+: Enabling safer more efficient patient care while reducing costs
Healthcare
CareScan+: Enabling safer more efficient patient care while reducing costs
North Tees and Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust began its GS1 standards-adoption journey as one of si...
Interoperability and GS1 standards – a roadmap to success in pathology and medicines administration
Healthcare
Interoperability and GS1 standards – a roadmap to success in pathology and medicines admin...
Prior to 2017, pathology at Royal Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust was a systematic but manual...
More than bar codes: Integrating Global Standards-based bar code technology into National Health Information Systems in Ethiopia and Pakistan to increase end-to-end supply chain visibility
Healthcare
More than bar codes: Integrating Global Standards-based bar code technology into National ...
Bar codes can help track and trace health products in the supply chain.
Connected, continuous and complete: Implementing Scan4Safety using GS1 standards at the core of the patient pathway
Healthcare
Connected, continuous and complete: Implementing Scan4Safety using GS1 standards at the co...
Launched in England by the UK’s Department of Health and Social Care in 2016, the Scan4Safety progra...
Providing traceability, visibility and food safety via GS1’s TrueSource
Retail, Foodservice, Public sector
Providing traceability, visibility and food safety via GS1’s TrueSource
Launched in 2010, TrueSource is GS1 UK’s leading Data Pool service
“Coding for success” Automatic Identity and Data Capture programme within the National Hea...
The NHS Procurement eEnablement Programme – Using information to deliver better healthcare