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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...
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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...
LM-Dental moving to GS1 standards for dental product traceability with EPC/RFID
Healthcare
LM-Dental moving to GS1 standards for dental product traceability with EPC/RFID
LM-Dental, a leading manufacturer of dental products based in Finland, is implementing GS1 standards...
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...
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...
GS1 Digital Link helps deliver valuable e-leaflet information to healthcare providers and patients
Healthcare
GS1 Digital Link helps deliver valuable e-leaflet information to healthcare providers and ...
In November 2019, amendments were made by the Japanese government to the Pharmaceuticals and Medical...
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.
Bedside scanning requires cultural change
Healthcare
Bedside scanning requires cultural change
Rigshospitalet is a University Hospital in the Capital Region of Denmark. It is a highly specialised...