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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...
Successful implementation of electronic health record system for traceability of medical materials
Healthcare
Successful implementation of electronic health record system for traceability of medical m...
In Japan, GS1 barcodes have been used in the healthcare industry for decades, specifically by medica...
Inventory Management in Apparel with EPC/RFID, Japanese company gains in-store efficiency
Retail, Apparel, Transport & Logistics
Inventory Management in Apparel with EPC/RFID, Japanese company gains in-store efficiency
First to deploy item-level EPC/RFID tagging in Japan.
china
Healthcare
China: Tracking drugs and medical devices on a single platform
Based on the research on the similarities and differences between drugs and medical devices supply c...
Ethiopia: Laying foundations to fight substandard and falsified medicines
Healthcare
Denmark: Creating IT architecture for supply chain automation
The aim is to have a hospital with an automated logistic infrastructure that is agile and can be ada...
Ethiopia: Laying foundations to fight substandard and falsified medicines
Healthcare
China: Improving medical device management through the use of GS1 standards
The hospital implemented new processes for the delivery, acceptance, warehousing and billing of medi...
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...
Covid Vaccines traceability program in Nigeria
Healthcare
Covid Vaccines traceability program in Nigeria