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Tania Snioch, Director Healthcare, GS1 Global Office

Safer, more efficient care starts

with a simple scan

April 2017

GS1 standards in healthcare

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Agenda

• Global standards – why are they needed?

• GS1 system of standards – identify, capture and

share

• Worldwide regulatory developments

• Hospitals

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Global Standards

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In healthcare a lack of standards is dangerous and inefficient!

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• Multiple bar codes on one

package – which one to scan?

• Different types of bar codes –

inconsistency; incompatibility

• No bar code – need to bar code;

re-package; re-label

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Huge cost savings and patient safety benefits when adopting a single global standard in healthcare

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“Implementing global standards across the entire healthcare supply chain could save 22,000-43,000 lives and avert 0.7 million to 1.4 million patient disabilities”

“Rolling out such standards-based systems globally could prevent tens of millions of dollars’ worth of counterfeit drugs from entering the legitimate supply chain”

[We] “estimate that healthcare cost could be reduced by $40 billion-$100 billion globally” from the implementation of global standards

“Adopting a single set of global standards will cost significantly less than two” (between 10-25% less cost to stakeholders)

SOURCE: McKinsey report, “Strength in unity: The promise of global standards in healthcare”, October 2012

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Healthcare is not only medicines and

medical devices

Hospitals purchase many different kinds of products. They ALL

need to be identified with GS1 barcodes so they can be purchased,

stocked, dispensed, billed, tracked and recalled efficiently and safely.

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GS1

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• We create a common foundation for business by uniquely

identifying, accurately capturing and automatically sharing vital

information about products, locations and assets

• We enable visibility through the exchange of authentic data

• We empower business to grow and to improve efficiency, safety,

security and sustainability

We are:

GS1 believes in the power of standards to transform

the way we work and live.

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GS1 purpose

Neutral and not-for-profit

User-driven and governed - >1 million

users

Global and local –112 MOs

Inclusive and collaborative

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GS1 is a Standards Development Organisation working with others

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Health Level 7International

Clinical DataInterchange Standards

Consortium

World HealthOrganization

World CustomsOrganization

International Council for

Commonality in Blood Banking Automation

International HospitalFederation

Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise

InternationalHealth Terminology

SDO

InternationalOrganisation for Standardisation

EuropeanCommittee forStandardization

Digital Imaging and Communications in

Medicine

European Association of

Hospital Pharmacists

European Federation of

Pharmaceutical Industries and Associations

European Medical Devices Industry

Association

InternationalSociety for Quality

in Healthcare

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GS1 Healthcare - voluntary, global User Group

To lead the healthcare sector to the successful

development and implementation of global

standards by bringing together experts in

healthcare to enhance patient safety and

supply chain efficiencies.11

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GS1 Healthcare: an expanding, committed community of globally engaged stakeholders…

…and there are many more companies working with GS1 at a local level

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…as well as with leading hospitals and government agencies to implement GS1

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GS1: global system of standards

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…used on any item upon which there is a need to retrieve pre-defined information and that may be priced, or ordered, or invoiced at any point in

any supply chain.

The base for the unique identifier in many regulations worldwide

Unique – secure -proven

GTIN – Global Trade Item Number

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Capturing the identification key… … and beyond

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Item identifier Expiry date

Batch number

Serial number(21)1234

GTINs (Global Trade Item Numbers) provide access to

information held in computer files – they are unique —

non-significant — international — foundational.

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Implementations in different countries and markets

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GS1 Healthcare - Public Policy Database

• 40+ countries• 65+ dossiers• 240+ documents

GS1 Healthcare

Public Policy database

Welcome! This database provides the latest relevant regulatory requirements, stakeholder agreements and user requests related to

Healthcare product identification, product catalogues and traceability at national, regional and local levels.

community, and governmental bodies and regulators involved in the Healthcare sector.

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It provides information about:• the latest relevant regulatory requirements, • stakeholder requirements related to Healthcare product identification, product catalogues and traceability at national, regional and local levels.

Only accessible for global GS1 Healthcare members –For a list of members and information on membershipplease see athttp://www.gs1.org/healthcare/membership

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Hospitals

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Real-life examples

Patient ID and bedside scanning

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Charing Cross Hospital (UK)1

• Patient ID checks were only being done 17%

of the time; after barcoded identification

wristbands were implemented this increased

to 81%1 NHS Connecting Health

Gelre Hospitals (The Netherlands)2

• Electronic prescription and barcode point-of-

care system reduced medication errors by

74% 2 GS1 Healthcare conference, 2010

81%Patients ID

checks

74%Reduced

medication errors

St James’s Hospital, Ireland

Outcomes/ROIValidated Cold Chain delivery Service using GS1

Datamatrix Bar coding on medication packaging

• Since Cold Chain delivery started all products verifiably delivered between 20-50 Celsius

• Documentation errors reduced from 12 to zero in the year post service implementation

• € 5 Million worth of medication stock has been removed from the supply chain

• Stock rotation in 2011 saved €600,000 worth of stock

• Mock Recall identified location of all (100%)Medication within 10 minutes along with quantities of alternate stock available

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Real-life examples

Order-to-cash benefits

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Ramsay Health Care (Australia)1

Need: Improve the efficiency of supply chain

processes while leveraging Australian national

e-procurement recommendations.

Solution: Deploy GS1 standards for identifying,

capturing and sharing information to support

interaction with suppliers.

Benefits: Increased both the speed and the efficiency

of its purchasing processes, underpinned the efficient

operation of its hospitals and helped ensure the

continuous delivery of quality healthcare.

• Procure-to-pay processing costs have

been decreased by approximately 95%

per document1 GS1 Reference Book 2016-2017

95%lower

processing costs

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Real-life examples

Inventory management

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Portsmouth Hospital NHS Trust (UK)1

In order to resolve the challenge of managing

products with 13 different types of barcodes,

it implemented the use of GS1 standards

(GTINs, batch and lot numbers, expiry date

and, where needed, serialisation number)

to identify all products at inner and outer

packaging level.

• ROI = 8.5:1

• 20% stock reduction

• <1% waste1 Case Studies GS1 UK 2015

<1%waste

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Real-life examples

Supply chain management

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Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Dijon

(France)1

Using GS1 standards (GLN, GRAI, SSCC, GTIN),

created a logistics platform for its warehouse that

includes a traceability system.

• 40% increase in productivity

• 30% gain in storage capacity

• 80% reduction of item obsolescence

• 60% reduction of stocks within the

hospital stock1 GS1 Reference Book 2015-2016

60%reduction of

stocks

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Ultimately, it’s all about…

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PATIENT SAFETY!

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Tania Snioch

GS1 Global Office

E Tania.snioch@gs1.org

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