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Bedside Barcoding Continues to Get More Mainstream Media Attention

The groundswell that will become the tsunami continues. NBC’s WVIR-TV affiliate in Virginia has joined a growing number of mainstream media reports of late noting the benefits of bedside barcoding. In this instance, the spotlight is on Martha Jefferson Hospital. In the report, NBC says: It is one of 25 hospitals in the country to [...]

Emerging Market Strategy Drives Sanofi’s Purchase of Controlling Interest in Shantha Biotechnics

Sanofi, the major pharmaceutical company based in France, has purchased a controlling interest in Shantha Biotechnics, a vaccines company based in India.

Challenging Barcode Quiz Offered by SupplyChainDigest

Are you a barcode guru? That’s the question SupplyChainDigest can help you resolve by taking their ten question quiz, located here

Barcode Breakthrough, called Bokode, Discovered by MIT Labs

Trust the folks at MIT labs to not be outdone by the 3D barcode. The MIT News office has issued a report saying that researchers at the Media Lab have come up with a new kind of barcode.

Will Barcodes on Trees Stop Illegal Logging?

Obviously by now you know I’m a big advocate for barcodes.

Emerging Markets Forecast for Drug and Device Combination Products

A recent announcement by Research and Markets is interesting on three levels.

GS1 US Adds Two to Board of Governors

Pamela G. Bailey, president and chief executive officer of the Grocery Manufacturers Association (GMA), and Leslie G. Sarasin, president and chief executive officer of the Food Marketing Institute (FMI), have been elected to the Board of Governors of GS1 US, the supply-chain standards organization.

Findings of EU Pharma Traceability Pilot Published

We’ve covered this topic earlier but today’s news is that pilot organizers and participants have published their findings, recommendations and conclusions in the project’s Evaluation Report. The news release about this is here. A link to the complete recommendations document is here. The bottom line is: The project team found that full supply chain traceability systems [...]

GS1 DataBar: Inevitable in age when “information is king and space is limited?”

At barcode.com, writer Melina McLean has posted a poll question asking whether or not you think the GS1 DataBar will replace the UPC.

Emerging Markets Expert Gives 10 Reasons to Favor Developing Regions Now . . . And That Means Labeling

In this story appearing on citywire, Bryan Collings,

GDSN-Certified Data Pool Selected by Novation

Novation has become the first group purchasing organization (GPO) to

GS1 EPCIS and DPMS: The Interoperability Factor?

Dirk Rodgers is the co-chair of the GS1 EPCglobal Drug Pedigree

Latest Edition of GS1 Healthcare Newsletter Now Available

The 15th edition of the GS1 Healthcare Newsletter

Bedside Barcode Adoption Resistance: What Happens When The Public Finds Out?

This is a follow-up to a post I published the other day about Mark Neuenschwander’s outstanding presentation at the recent GS1 Healthcare Conference in Washington, DC, where he spoke at length about bedside barcode technology benefits. Mark didn’t specifically use the expression ‘market pull,’ but that is what he was talking about at one point when he said [...]

Emerging Markets Driving Worldwide CRM Revenue Says Gartner

In spite of a troubled global economy, Gartner, which is the world’s leading information technology research and advisory company, says worldwide sales of customer relationship marketing (CRM) solutions totalled $9.15 billion in 2008. That, they note, is a 12.5 per cent increase from 2007 revenue of $8.13 billion. A major reason why? Emerging markets, which of course means emerging markets [...]

Pepsi to Pour Another Billion Dollars into Russia

You may want to ‘Join the Movement,’ as the soda slogan goes, upon hearing this news from PepsiCo. It is investing another billion dollars in Russia, bringing to $4 billion the value of its total stake in that emerging market.  

Emerging Market Growth will Exceed Promising Forecasts says Financial Expert

If you believe the expert quoted in this Bloomberg story – he is Barton Biggs, who runs New York-based hedge fund Traxis Partners LP — there could be a better than thirteen point spread in the growth rate of the economy this year in China

GS1 US Community Room Web Seminars Now Available

In case you missed it, GS1 US has announced it is hosting a series of web events described as, “GS1 Healthcare US Community Room Basics – A Manual for Users.”  

Interesting Medical Devices Market Prognosis from Frost & Sullivan

European medical devices companies are weathering the economic situation and they are looking to emerging markets for more growth.