Healthcare industry news
Standards in action across Healthcare
Our goal is to work together with industry to support improvements to safety and quality in Healthcare through the implementation of GS1 standards.
This newsletter highlights some of the initiatives within the local and global Healthcare community where GS1 standards have been implemented as part of improving Healthcare.
Medication safety continues to be a focus for healthcare
The Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Healthcare released its third edition guide to Electronic Medication Management on Friday 10 November. This is one of several documents from the Commission focussed on ensuring safer practices related to medicines.
For those focussed on the supply chain - unique identification of products and locations, traceability, data standards and electronic messaging, these are all referenced in section 8.4 as important foundations for safer medication management.
Global Healthcare Conference 2017 - Outstanding presentations from industry leaders
Once again, all presentations at the recent global conference in Chicago were incredibly thought-provoking. There are several we would recommend to those looking for inspiration, insight or implementation ideas as well as some details around actual, realised benefits from implementing standards in our health systems.
Data Quality Improvement program – real improvements starting to take shape
Tangible results are becoming apparent twelve months into the Data Quality Improvement program. An increasing number of suppliers are achieving Gold and Platinum status and others improved from their original quality rating.
If you have not already done so, review the ‘Enabling data quality in healthcare’ section on the page below to see what tools may be available to help your organisation tackle the challenge of data quality.
Find out more from the experts with the GS1 Health Provider Database
Often, we are asked for more information to assist in solving problems using GS1 standards. To help share the knowledge from other health providers around the world, GS1 has compiled a database of implementations from around the globe.
Register for the next HPAC hospital implementation webinar
The webinar presented by Ryan Mavin, Lead Enterprise Architect -ACT Government on utilising identification standards driving patient safety for better and sustainable healthcare.
Did you know NSW Healthshare requires product imagery for all products within Oracle R12?
The aim of this project is to supplement the quality product information from the NPC with clear, consistent, quality imagery in order to assist key stakeholders in product selection and procurement. When stakeholders can find products easily by recognising the product they need, it is proven to significantly increase the number of sales which can only be good for your business.
GS1 Australia is here to help with these image requirements, so get in touch to see how we can help you on +61 2 9695 2227
Training and events
GS1 continues to provide training to its members across the implementation of standards and services.
· How to meet Unique Device Identification (UDI) requirements – Webinar
Tuesday 12 December 2017
Tuesday 13 February 2018
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