Creating value for healthcare stakeholders: how to collaborate with Solution Partners as a GS1 member.

Healthcare Wholesaler/Warehouse

A fast-growing number of Healthcare Providers worldwide are choosing clinical and business solutions powered by GS1 standards that uniquely identify medicines, medical devices, patients, healthcare professionals and other critical components in the delivery. Implementing interoperable solutions is now primordial for Healthcare Providers and GS1 Healthcare is the best answer to meet this requirement

Encouraging Collaboration.

GS1 Member Organisations have the opportunity to play a critical role in the collaboration between solution partners and Healthcare Providers as well as suppliers. These collaborations will allow solution providers to support industry in creating key benefits including:

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    support interoperability
    Support interoperability

    Create an environment of seamless information exchange. Reduce the complexity of data exchange between clinical and supply chain systems, within and external to the healthcare stakeholder’s environment. Healthcare stakeholders can more effectively integrate disparate systems.

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    Improve patient-level costing
    Help supply chain efficiency

    Provide a globally harmonised and integrated framework to manage supply chain information making the healthcare value chain more efficient and enabling more streamlined interoperability of supply chain solutions.

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    Leverage supply chain data for clinical processes
    Leverage supply chain data for clinical processes

    Use the identifiers and barcodes that exist on medications and medical devices to automatically populate databases, including clinical registries.

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    Increase patient safety
    Support increasing patient safety

    Identify and automatically capture data about medications and medical devices, and use positive patient identification to be sure the right medical product is being used for the right patient, at the right time.

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    Drive efficient, precise recalls
    Drive efficient, precise recalls

    Healthcare stakeholders can better locate medicines and medical devices impacted, enabling more rapid, real-time recall processes.

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    Enable asset traceability
    Enable asset traceability

    Verify which medical devices, instruments and other assets are used in which circumstances to enable transparent reprocessing and lifecycle management.

The key highlights of collaborating with your Solution Partners.

Why the solutions selected by your organisation should support GS1 Standards

Discussion guide for GS1 members for communication with Solution Partners

Q&A for Solution Partners regarding GS1 Standards implementation