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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...
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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...
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Healthcare
Working together on a single source to achieve reliable data for medical devices
Exchanging product information of medical devices has traditionally involved time-consuming handling...
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...
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...
National Children’s Hospital uses GS1 standards to improve efficiency in patient care
Healthcare
National Children’s Hospital uses GS1 standards to improve efficiency in patient care
The inventory the National Children’s Hospital were working with was identified in a variety of ways...
Fresenius Kabi: First to provide healthcare providers with GS1 EPC-enabled RFID tagging at the dosage level
Healthcare
Fresenius Kabi: First to provide healthcare providers with GS1 EPC-enabled RFID tagging at...
Fresenius Kabi specialises in lifesaving medicines and technologies for infusion, transfusion and cl...
Study of three international health systems showcases the benefits of supply chain transformation
Healthcare
Study of three international health systems showcases the benefits of supply chain transfo...
The seminal research paper, Visibility: The New Value Proposition for Health Systems, proposed a new...