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 [...]

Online Videos and Presentations from 15th Global GS1 Healthcare Conference Now Available

GS1 has alerted us to the availability of online videos and presentations captured in Hong Kong in early October during the GS1 Healthcare Conference.  

Are US-based Medical Device Manufacturers Ready for What’s to Come?

Here is an important article by Renee Robbins entitled, “Supply chain complexity hampers medical device company operations, compliance,” published by Manufacturing Business Technology.  

GS1 Preference by Large UK-based GPO is Signaled by GHX Selection

A UK-based group purchasing organization by the name of North West Collaborative Commercial Agency (NW CCA), and which works with more than 50 National Health Service organisations in North West England, has according to this news report,  selected GHX as its exclusive provider  

GS1 Announces Availability of GLN GPO Pilot Report

GS1’s  Global Location Number (GLN) Group Purchasing Organization(GPO) Roster Pilot was conducted  

GS1 Releases RFID-based Electronic Article Surveillance Guidelines

Writing for RFID Journal, Claire Swedberg does a terrific job not only reporting this news about new RFID guidelines from GS1 but of digging deeper, in her three page analysis, into some of the remaining, nagging issues

First View of FDA UDI Regulations . . . Just Hours Away?

This is a reminder of the UDI 2009 Conference that gets underway twelve hours from now, in Orlando. Take a look at this event site and tell me it doesn’t have ‘decision-time’ written all over it.  

GS1-driven Fresh Produce Traceability for Small Operations Made Easier?

One of the big worries about the Food Safety Enhancement Act of 2009, which will mandate that food be traceable, has been that while large fresh produce organizations should find it relatively easy and affordable to implement and use, small growers will find compliance and the economics of it overwhelming.  

FDA’s Jay Crowley to give UDI Keynote at Upcoming Virtual Trade Show

“The Upside of a Unique Device Identification (UDI) Mandate” is the topic of an online keynote speech that will be given by Jay Crowley, senior advisor for patient safety, Center for Devices and Radiological Health, of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on December 2 as part of the Track & Trace Virtual Trade Show. 

Emerging Market Demand for Medical Imaging Products Helps Lift Philips Profit

This story from SmartMoney says that analysts had expected Royal Philips Electronics to post a third quarter loss  of 44.7 million euros. Instead, they posted a quarterly net income of 174 million euros.  

GS1 Co-Developed ‘Empty Miles’ Service Making Strong Gains

The opening paragraph of this news release issued last week provides a great summary of how a GS1 co-developed program called the Empty Miles Service is already benefitting two major organizations. In case you are not familiar with this program, it matches a company`s trailers that are returning empty with another company`s potential loads that [...]

In Emerging Markets, Big Pharma Pursuing ‘Branded Generics’ Strategy — Still Means GS1 Barcodes On Market Compliant Labels

In this article, entitled “Major pharmaceutical companies see generics as a bridge to the future,” writer Clay Boswell first provides a review of all the major acquisitions, mergers and joint marketing agreements by large pharmaceutical companies over the past couple of years.  

GS1 and the Food Marketing Institute Launch Rapid Recall Exchange

There are two interesting things about this news that the Food Marketing Institute (FMI) and GS1