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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...
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
Exchanging data via GDSN as a foundation for traceability
To increase the safety and efficiency of medicine supply chains, healthcare leaders in Zambia are ke...
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...
Improving efficiency and safety through the automatic identification of medical devices at the University Clinical Centre, Gdańsk
Healthcare
Improving efficiency and safety through the automatic identification of medical devices at...
The University Clinical Centre (UCC) was founded by the Medical University of Gdańsk and is one of t...
Using GS1 standards to create Kaohsiung Armed Forces General Hospital’s smart medical system
Healthcare
Using GS1 standards to create Kaohsiung Armed Forces General Hospital’s smart medical syst...
The implementation of auto-identification reduces the chances of human error and means that implante...
“Speaking in the same language to save time and increase efficiency and safety” - the standardisation of logistics in Chilean healthcare
Healthcare
“Speaking in the same language to save time and increase efficiency and safety” - the stan...
The main objective of Chilean Public Healthcare is to promote equity and quality in access to health...