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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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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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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
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