After its successful issue in 2009 GS1 has published a second and third editions of the Healthcare Reference Guide, a detailed compendium of information on the adoption and implementation across the globe of GS1 Standards in the Healthcare supply chain. Experts from different countries and different backgrounds share their insights on important regulatory and industry developments, adoption initiatives, lessons learnt from implementation projects and more.

GS1 Healthcare envisions a future where the Healthcare sector utilises GS1 global Standards for all items, locations, people and processes, to drive patient safety and supply chain efficiency improvements – starting with the manufacturer and ending with procedures or treatments for a specific patient.

In light of a variety of concerns about patient safety and rapidly escalating Healthcare costs, governments worldwide are taking action and important policy changes are on the way. Some of them will have a direct impact on the Healthcare supply chain. Various authorities worldwide have developed, or are developing, regulations requiring automatic identification, serialisation and traceability systems in Healthcare to improve patient safety, including the European Commission, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the National Health Surveillance Agency in Brazil (ANVISA), the Ministry of Health of Turkey and the India Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW).

GS1 Standards provide a global framework that takes into account all these types of specific requirements for medical products (pharmaceutical and medical devices).

Please download a copy of the Guide for your reference. If you would like to talk to GS1 about the deployment of GS1 Standards within your organisations please call our Helpdesk on 01 208 0660.

ATTACHMENTS (Click on the filename to download):

	Healthcare Reference Book 2011
	Healthcare Reference Book 2012