Well-deserved winners of the ‘Provider Recognition Awards’ were Peter O’Halloran, Chief Information Officer ACT Health, Australia for the outstanding qualitative and quantitative results in implementing GS1 standards nationally and internationally and Professor Sir Terence Stephenson, Nuffield Professor of Child Health and Chair of University College London and General Medical Council, UK for his extensive and well recognised effort to implement GS1 standards in healthcare in the UK and beyond including training of professionals.