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 [...]

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 [...]

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  

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 [...]

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  

GS1 Releases GPC Codes for Drugs and Medical Devices

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

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 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.  

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 UK Study Makes Billion Pound Case for Global Data Synchronisation Adoption

GS1 recently examined over a million records from four major supermarkets in the UK as well as from Nestle, Unilever, Proctor & Gamble and Mars and you’ll never guess what they found. Here is their very compelling finding about data inconsistencies GS1 believes will cost  UK grocery retailers £1 billion over the next five years if [...]

GS1 to be the Standard for UDI in China

Big news: In an email today from John Roberts, Director, GS1 Healthcare US, we’re being informed that at a recent seminar in China conducted by AdvaMed, which is a major association of advanced medical technology producers, officials representing the China State Food and Drug Administration (SFDA) said they plan to follow the  

‘Emerging Markets’ Label No Longer Applicable Says Financial Expert – But GS1 Labeling Is Still Very Applicable

In an online story from the UK’s Financial Times, writer Marko Dimitrijevic says this: The term emerging markets is obsolete. They represent half of the world’s economy; their financial markets are large and liquid, with volatility, corporate governance and government policies very similar to those of developed markets. The traditional distinctions between emerging and developed markets, once [...]

GS1 Importance in Emerging Markets: Brazil And GS1 Standards for Labeling

Brazil is the “B” in the shorthand for emerging markets sometimes lumped together as BRIC. Quite often here we’ve been covered news for two simultaneous points: emerging markets offer tremendous growth opportunities during this period of economic malaise in developed countries and, two, these emerging markets are making important contributions to the adoption and enforcement [...]

“Oracle, the FDA, GS1 and Loftware: Improving Supply Chain Safety and Standards” – Up-Coming OpenWorld Panel!

Editor’s note: As an editorial decision since the inception of this blog, I’ve steered away from Loftware promotional posts. The panel session cited above, in my opinion, is news and the fact Loftware is in the middle of it, well, does it lose its news worthiness and become an ad? No, I don’t think so.
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GS1 Healthcare Focus in Upcoming Presentation at HL7 Meeting

In a news release today, the Premier Healthcare Alliance, which represents  more than 2,200 U.S. hospitals and 63,000-plus other healthcare sites, announced upcoming presentations its senior executives will be making around the country in the coming days and months. Premier, you’ll recall, was the first group purchasing organization to endorse the use of GS1 supply [...]

Cadbury’s Emerging Market Strengths Driving Kraft’s Acquisition Interest

The headline on this Wall Street Journal article not only says it all, but validates the emerging markets focus we’ve been featuring here for months.  

New Emerging Markets Pharma Analysis Report Available – And Every Market Requires GS1 Labeling

This news crossed Business Wire about an hour ago:
The emerging markets are luring a growing number of pharma companies looking to compensate for the diminishing revenues in developed markets. Latin America and Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) are showing strong growth rates, proving to be lucrative targets for firms aiming to expand their foothold, initially [...]

DuPont’s Emerging Markets Strategy Pivotal to Growth – More GS1 Labeling

Viet Nam News may be a rather unusual source of information, but featured here in this article is

As Loftware Preps for Oracle OpenWorld, 11g R2 Debuts

This is the first of several planned posts about a major healthcare technology panel at Oracle OpenWorld 2009 in San Francisco (where Loftware will also be exhibiting in booth 3108, West Exhibition Hall). While Oracle’s chief focus this year at the October show is rightfully on their formal launch yesterday of 11g Release 2 of its database, [...]

Worldwide Cast of Regulatory Affairs Professionals To Meet in Philadelphia Sept. 13-16

A major conference of regulatory affairs professionals