To fully meet the requirements of the Scan4Safety programme, a point-of-care scanning solution was necessary to facilitate the convenient and practical capture and recording of events taking place during each episode of patient care.

However, when implementing and using scanning at the point of care, staff found that there was no all-encompassing scanning solution available to meet their needs.

The trust decided to develop its own solution and looked to produce an easy-to-use, accessible app that staff could use for all of their scanning requirements – one where all of the data collected could be accessed and stored in one central repository so that the right investigational product and/or kit goes to the right patient.

The process was time-consuming and increased the risk for human error. In addition, the department had limited visibility of inventory levels, leading to low turnover of inventory on shelves and significant waste.

To optimise the reordering process while freeing up more time for patients, the department implemented a system using GS1 standards for scanning the barcodes of existing items in stock and all newly purchased items. The manual reordering process was replaced with one that was automated with nurses scanning all items that were used. This automatically generated a reordering list. All staff nurses were trained in how to use the new system, old scanners were reconfigured until they worked perfectly and new scanners were purchased.

With this goal in mind, the hospital decided to improve the management of medicinal products.

To help with this challenge, CAISM established a partnership with Cristália Produtos Químicos Farmacêuticos Ltda. (Cristália), a manufacturer of quality pharmaceutical products. Cristália enabled CAISM to make significant process improvements by using GS1 standards applied on the primary packaging of medicine. By scanning GS1 DataMatrix barcodes, CAISM can now automatically capture important data that identifies the item—specifically the Global Trade Item Number® (GTIN®), batch number and expiration date. The hospital can more effectively manage the hospital pharmacy resources, enabling internal traceability—from the receipt of medicinal products in stock to their administration at patients’ bedsides.

Movilitas’ fully compliant set of services and solutions helped Bionorica handle the complex serialisation requirements.

An integration of the company’s SAP ® Advanced Track and Trace for Pharmaceuticals (ATTP) solution with the Russian Order Management System (OMS) was established to enable the request of required crypto codes. Additionally, a direct integration from Bionorica’s SAP ATTP solution to the Russian Drug Circulation Monitoring System (MDLP) was created using Movilitas.Cloud for monitoring and legal reporting of all transactions. GS1 standards provided the foundation for the traceability system.

One of the findings of the audit was that the hospital was unable to track feeds to patients

The hospital implemented a standards-based traceability database, barcode labelling and a scanning system that could capture the critical data about each product (expiry date or best before date, batch number, location within the hospital e.g. store or ward, the staff member that delivered or prepared the feed and ultimately the patient that received it).

Annually 85,000 inpatients and around 1 million outpatients are treated at the hospital, which covers 1,200 beds.

The Department of Paediatric Surgery is a clinic at Rigshospitalet, which handles the treatment of children and adolescents with acute and chronic conditions. It is a clinic with complex patient pathways and an everyday life that has many different tasks.

Cardinal Health conducted its own barcode assessment of homogeneous cases from pharmaceutical manufacturers. All three assessments were supported by GS1 Healthcare US.

Taking a consistent, year-over-year approach, the teams from AmerisourceBergen and McKesson with collaboration from GS1 Healthcare US scanned 2D barcodes on product packages, capturing data to measure the percentage of readable 2D barcodes encoding an NDC, serial number, lot number and expiration date.

The medical centre considered the situation as a good opportunity to finally address issues that had grown over time: increasing costs, time pressures and regulatory compliance requirements.

UKE issued an invitation to tender for a vendor managed inventory (VMI) solution with the goal of “stock optimisation with readily available supply.” With a VMI, a supplier would assume responsibility for the medical centre’s inventory. Johnson & Johnson Medical GmbH proposed taking “the bull by the horns,” no longer accepting half measures, no more Excel lists and no more manual entry.

Australia sends over 250,000 tonnes of meat to the United States each year. Until recently, tens of thousands of meat cartons were being rejected and destroyed at the U.S. border.

The reason was a simple, yet critical, part of the shipping process – labels. More specifically, damaged or missing labels referred to as shipping marks.

Shipping marks are unique numbers used to identify products within each carton of meat and recognise the associated health certifications. The shipping marks link each lot of product to the corresponding lot on a foreign inspection certificate, or other foreign certification documents.

Alfajores El Molle wanted to better manage its stock by uniquely identifying the flavours of alfajores in its extensive product line. Furthermore, the company needed to create a traceability system to comply with regulations and achieve specific certifications, assuring customers of its commitment to food safety.

With help from GS1 Argentina, Alfajores El Molle has implemented GS1 barcodes encoded with GS1 identifiers for its product flavours and logistics units. A traceability system – GS1 TrazAR platform—to collect digitalised data so that the company can track products as they are shipped to customers and products can be traced back to their company.