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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
Working together on a single source to achieve reliable data for medical devices
Exchanging product information of medical devices has traditionally involved time-consuming handling...
Fewer bricks and more clicks result in optimal medical device inventory at Radboudumc
Healthcare
Fewer bricks and more clicks result in optimal medical device inventory at Radboudumc
Radboud University Medical Centre (Radboudumc) wanted to eliminate out-of-stock situations for its o...
Tokai University Hospital achieves traceability and increased efficiencies in operating theatres
Healthcare
Tokai University Hospital achieves traceability and increased efficiencies in operating th...
Tokai University Hospital implemented a new management system by using GS1 standards in its operatin...
Digitise healthcare product information to improve procurement and supply chain management
Healthcare
Digitise healthcare product information to improve procurement and supply chain management
As a public purchasing organisation, Resah aims to facilitate access to the ordering, management and...
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 ...
Two healthcare purchasing organisations now share a greater volume of medical product information with their members
Healthcare
Two healthcare purchasing organisations now share a greater volume of medical product info...
A group purchasing organisation for public and non-profit private hospitals and nursing homes.
Successful implementation of electronic health record system for traceability of medical materials
Healthcare
Successful implementation of electronic health record system for traceability of medical m...
In Japan, GS1 barcodes have been used in the healthcare industry for decades, specifically by medica...