Emerging Markets to Encounter Perfect Storm Driven by Global Pharma Interests?

This morning, The Financial Express is running a front page story entitled ‘Generics Gateway ,’  

GS1 Healthcare’s 16th Global Conference to be in São Paulo, Brazil in March

The 16th Global GS1 Healthcare Conference will be held March 16th to the 18th in São Paulo, Brazil. At this link you can learn much more about the three-day event, including the current list of chief topics to be discussed. These include:  

Emerging Markets to Save Sanofi-Aventis from Urgent Merger Says CEO – Yet More EML Required!

The French newspaper Le Monde conducted an extensive interview with Sanofi-Aventis Chief Executive Chris Viehbacher about the drug company’s economic survival and whether or not a mega-merger is in order to achieve financial stability.  The whole interview isn’t yet available, but in this Dow Jones report about an advance copy, six specific things  are cited by Mr. Viehbacher that he says negate the need for any urgent corporate coupling:

India’s Booming Emerging Medical Device Market and the GS1 Connection: GS1 Compliant EML

Here’s a summary of recent research showing the current and future expected growth of the medical device market in India. It features plenty of stats, all upward trending and at a good velocity, but it was this statement that interested me the most: The medical devices and equipments market is poised for phenomenal growth due to focused investment in healthcare infrastructure and foreign manufacturers of medical devices and equipments eyeing for India for creating global hub for manufacturing medical devices and equipments.  

GS1 Australia Initiative Aims to Unite Consumer Electronics Retailers and Suppliers over eCommence Standard

A newly formed organization called the Consumer Electronics Working Action Group (CEWAG), which is an initiative of GS1 Australia, is intended to help  

GS1 Standards & System Development Newsletter, 1st Edition, Now Available

Here’s another informational resource for you from GS1: the first edition of their Standards & System Development Newsletter.  

FDA Launches New ‘Safe Use Initiative’ to Reduce Medication Errors

I go to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) website almost every day to glimpse their recent news releases. That’s because sometimes their announcements don’t seem to get much pick up in the usual places. Yesterday they issued this news release. The headline is: FDA Unveils Safe Use Initiative that Targets Preventable Harm from Medication Use.  

Expansion in Emerging Markets is One of Three Key Abbott Strategies – That Means More Emergent Markets Labeling and GS1 Compliance

In a news release this morning, Abbott announced  

GS1 Labeling Awareness Hits Top Executive Level Agenda

You know, when the subject of barcodes and product labels comes up in many executive suites, C-level executives have a tendency sometimes to tune out. They shouldn’t, of course, because a wrong barcode or an inability to produce labels can stop production and  

VA’s ‘Digital Overhaul’ Offers Model of Benefits from Standardized ID-based Patient Services

If you want a glimpse into how the application of patient, medical record, and treatment applications, outcomes and costs can be improved everywhere and for all by a  set of national digital healthcare standards,  

GS1 Releases GPC Codes for Drugs and Medical Devices

At this site, GS1 Healthcare has made the following announcement: To support the immediate  

GS1 Healthcare Launches YouTube Channel

Here is the new GS1 Healthcare Channel on YouTube. So far there are only five videos, but note that to date the most watched features one of our favorite presentations by  

GS1 Healthcare Newsletter, 16th Edition, Now Available

If you’ve never taken a look at any of the GS1 Healthcare newsletter editions, you’re missing some great  

Survey Estimates GS1 Adoption Can Bring $16 Billion Savings to Healthcare

There are so many voices in a recent news release, posted here by GS1 Healthcare US,  it is probably best just to give you the opening paragraph that summarizes everything:

GS1 Healthcare US Debuts Educational Suite of Free Web Seminars

At this GS1 Healthcare US site you can learn more about four web seminars  

GS1 Taiwan Wants Global E-Seal Standard

It has been convincingly argued that RFID technology is too expensive, still, to justify its use on low-cost unit items. But how about a cargo container?  

‘GS1 codes… less suitable for medical applications,’ say two HIBCC Execs

[Editor's note: I have a view which differs from Sterling's even-handed one and certainly from the bias of the two gentlemen quoted below.  

Emerging Markets in Theory and Practice

I have two separate but related stories to share with you this morning. The first is this one headlined, “Attraction of emerging market sector.”  

GS1’s GEPIR Search Service Identifies Owners of Barcodes, Location Numbers and Container Codes

GEPIR is GS1’s Global Electronic Party Information Register. They say it contains a database of basic information on over 1,000,000 companies in over 100 countries that you can search by Global Trade Identification Number (GTIN), Global location Number (GLN), or Container Code.  

Do You Have an ‘Emerging Markets’ Department? Google Does.

Thanks to this short blurb in the Warsaw Business Journal, I discovered that Google is apparently so interested in emerging markets that they have a department dedicated to it and have appointed a Managing Director to oversee it. He is Mohammad Gawdat and you can read more about him and his positions on various things here at the BizCommunity site.