Poor data impacts many areas in the healthcare supply chain. Most importantly, poor data impacts patient safety when the supply chain fails to deliver the right medical product, to the right patient, at the right time. As a result, supply chain data standards are currently a major topic for the healthcare industry. In fact, standards adoption is now considered a requirement for effectively controlling both cost and quality in healthcare going forward.

Utilising the GS1 Global Location Number (GLN), Mayo Clinic and Cardinal Health have implemented standardised identifiers for accounts/locations as the essential first step in their effort to fully support the adoption of healthcare supply chain standards.

During this collaborative project, both parties discovered that the GLN could be implemented swiftly and easily - requiring only weeks, as opposed to months or years. This white paper outlines the GLN implementation process used by Mayo Clinic and Cardinal Health, and identifies the lessons learned and the results achieved so that others may learn how to implement the GLN in their operations and realise similar success.

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Healthcare GLN Case Study Mayo Clinic and Cardinal Health