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Ethiopia: Laying foundations to fight substandard and falsified medicines
Healthcare
Using GS1 standards to trace surgical and dental instruments
Keeping track of many surgical instruments by visual inspection presented problems from a risk manag...
china
Healthcare
Implementing UDI on medical devices in Shenzhen – benefiting healthcare regulation and del...
There are increasing efforts to promote and implement the use of UDI for medical devices in China, b...
china
Healthcare
Optimising medicine management and reducing waste: a digitised approach for Danish healthc...
The absence of a standardised tracking system in Central Denmark's hospitals had made it arduous for...
Johnson & Johnson Supply Chain: The evolution of pharmaceutical product traceability in China
Healthcare
Johnson & Johnson Supply Chain: The evolution of pharmaceutical product traceability in Ch...
Transitioning to a GS1 standards-based solution, while desirable, requires changing systems and proc...
Improving inventory management and patient safety with simple scans
Healthcare
Improving inventory management and patient safety with simple scans
The North Denmark Region has three hospitals with approximately 1,800 beds and more than 8,700 emplo...
Medical device management using GS1 barcodes at Tokyo Yamate Medical Center
Healthcare
Medical device management using GS1 barcodes at Tokyo Yamate Medical Center
Medical device management was a manual process, medical staff checked the labels and made an entry e...
Device identification for traceability in the IVD-reagent supply chain
Healthcare
Device identification for traceability in the IVD-reagent supply chain
Dian Diagnostics Group Co., Ltd. (DIAN) is a China-based in-vitro diagnostics (IVD) company that pri...
Cardiac Catheterisation Laboratory improves traceability, workflow and reduces items in stock
Healthcare
Cardiac Catheterisation Laboratory improves traceability, workflow and reduces items in st...
The hospital department had a non-standardised manual process for handling stock inventory.