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Healthcare
End-to-end product traceability enables safer, more efficient care for Lancashire.
Stock control was heavily reliant on manual processing, and orders and supplies were managed by a li...
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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...
Scanning the horizon: the evolution of Scan4Safety in the NHS
Healthcare
Scanning the horizon: the evolution of Scan4Safety in the NHS
Six acute NHS demonstrator sites were funded through the GS1 and PEPPOL implementation programme tha...
Improving general inventory control at Portsmouth Hospitals NHS Trust, UK
Healthcare
Improving general inventory control at Portsmouth Hospitals NHS Trust, UK
Portsmouth Hospitals NHS Trust recognised the need for better inventory management. It employed GS1 ...
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...
Leeds Teaching Hospitals deploy Zebra printers and GS1 standards for positive patient identification
Healthcare
Leeds Teaching Hospitals deploy Zebra printers and GS1 standards for positive patient iden...
Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust (LTHT) wanted to adopt barcode technology to use with its patient...
Successful implementation of the Bulgarian Medicines Verification System
Healthcare
Successful implementation of the Bulgarian Medicines Verification System
Following the 2011 European Union Falsified Medicines Directive, the Bulgarian Medicines Verificatio...
Using barcode scanning technology to reduce medication errors in dispensing
Healthcare
Using barcode scanning technology to reduce medication errors in dispensing
There are an estimated 37.8 million dispensing errors made in England each year, representing 15.9% ...