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Driving Unique Device Identification compliance puts focus on patient safety
Healthcare
Driving Unique Device Identification compliance puts focus on patient safety
With a focus on improving patient safety, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recognised the p...
How positive patient identification can provide peace of mind for patients and their relatives
Healthcare
How positive patient identification can provide peace of mind for patients and their relat...
Staff working on the breast ward at Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust (Leeds) faced numerous, daily...
Realising more than £1m of savings through an effective inventory management improvement programme
Healthcare
Realising more than £1m of savings through an effective inventory management improvement p...
National Health Service (NHS) trusts in England are being driven to improve operational efficiencies...
Demonstrating the benefits of scanning UDI barcodes on the front lines
Healthcare
Demonstrating the benefits of scanning UDI barcodes on the front lines
The Veterans Affairs (VA) Medical Center in Miami, Florida, spent countless hours each week manually...
china
Healthcare
United States: Infusing Safety from Production to Patient with Unit-of-Use 2D Barcodes
Fresenius Kabi is a global leader in the manufacture of generic sterile injectable medicines along w...
Ethiopia: Laying foundations to fight substandard and falsified medicines
Healthcare
United Kingdom: Harnessing GS1 standards to reduce unwarranted clinical variation
To become more efficient and reduce costs and waste, MFT implemented an inventory management system ...
china
Healthcare
United States: Leveraging standards for inventory visibility
Geisinger made an investment in technology that uses the latest identification standards for medical...
Ethiopia: Laying foundations to fight substandard and falsified medicines
Healthcare
Nigeria: Tracking the distribution of Covid vaccinations
Nigeria already had a plan to implement pharmaceutical traceability for all drugs by 2024, with part...