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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
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
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...
Barcode readability for DSCSA 2023 interoperability
Healthcare
Barcode readability for DSCSA 2023 interoperability
AmerisourceBergen and McKesson conducted barcode assessments to gain an up-to-date view of industry’...
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...
Developing the GS1 monitoring tool: a standardised set of patient safety outcome measurements
Healthcare
Developing the GS1 monitoring tool: a standardised set of patient safety outcome measureme...
While some studies have investigated the efficacy of barcoding, the outcomes assessed across trials ...
Lovisenberg Diaconal Hospital achieves significant efficiency improvements and traceability for surgical equipment
Healthcare
Lovisenberg Diaconal Hospital achieves significant efficiency improvements and traceabilit...
Established in 1894, Lovisenberg Diaconal Hospital is publicly financed, but operates as a non-profi...