Leading global innovation in healthcare - a hospital wide approach to adopting GS1 standards
St. James’s Hospital has established the Scan for Surgery programme as well as introducing the automatic tracking of precious tissue samples. Both projects make use of GS1 standards-based technology to deliver improved patient safety and efficiency.
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Scan for Surgery – a new era for patient-level data
St. James’s Hospital established the Scan for Surgery steering group in 2016 to work on achieving better visibility of activities at the point-of-care, for both patient safety and efficiency improvements.
The hospital specifically looked at barcode scanning in the theatre, introducing technology to scan products and patients, which would:
- Improve traceability which improves patient safety
- Improve procedure cost analytics
- Automate re-ordering, thus freeing up time for clinical staff who had traditionally been involved in the manual procurement process
- Improve inventory management
89%
St. James’s can now assign over 89 percent of the costs incurred in theatre to the individual patient, enabling patient-level costing, which is a key national programme for Irish healthcare. The hospital also estimates a significant reduction in the time spent to order products.
“Until now we had very little visibility on patient costs behind the red line in theatre. In most cases, there was no electronic record of what products were used on which patients. That has all changed now. Combining the data from Scan for Surgery with existing business intelligence tools, we can now see very detailed cost analytics at a procedure level, and we can easily trace products to patients in the event of a recall.”
John Cotter, Programme Director, Activity Based Funding, St. James’s Hospital
Better Data, Better Decisions
Pharmaceutical and medical device suppliers are being required by regulation to barcode products by 2019 and 2020, respectively, which will support traceability at the patient-level. The UK Department of Health is mandating that all Trusts and Suppliers implement GS1 standards, which is having a positive effect on the Irish market. Also, the importance of GS1 standards adoption is recognised at a national level by the Health Service Executive (HSE). Since 2016, the HSE has been requesting GS1 information on national tenders.
“This holistic approach for a hospital wide implementation of GS1 standards with a view to increasing patient safety and operational efficiency, is a key strategic objective for St. James’s Hospital. The imminent legislation for suppliers provides significant opportunity for wide scale change and benefits for Irish healthcare.”
Vincent Callan, Director of Facilities Management, St. James’s Hospital
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| Webinar: | Leading global innovation in healthcare - a hospital wide approach to adopting GS1 standards, St. James’s Hospital, Dublin, Ireland The Healthcare Provider Advisory Council organises monthly webinars to discuss Provider Case Study Presentations. These webinars are open to any stakeholder interested in learning about GS1 standards implementation in the care giving environment. |
| Speakers | Mr Simon Moores, Director of Finance and Mr John Cotter, Programme Director of Activity Based Funding, St. James’s Hospital, Dublin, Ireland. |
| Summary | St. James's Hospital, Dublin, Ireland is recognised globally for its innovation. During this webinar Mr Simon Moores, Director of Finance and Mr John Cotter, Programme Director of Activity Based Funding will outline: • The approach and the process within the hospital; • the challenges encountered and how these were overcome; • how data enhances not only patient safety but also clinical decision making; • how data from the point of care enables patient level costing; • how the scan at the point of care can automate the re-ordering of product from the supplier; • how improving the supply chain has a direct and positive impact on patient safety. The webinar audience is all stakeholders who wish to learn the challenges and benefits of a consistent journey on implementing the several GS1 standards and identifiers in a university hospital. |
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