At this site, GS1 Healthcare has made the following announcement: To support the immediate
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[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.
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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
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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 [...]
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This news was issued just yesterday by GS1 out of Brussels, Belgium. As you may know from previous posts here about GS1 MobileCom and its various workgroups, handbooks and white papers, it is a cross-industry initiative involving over one hundred companies seeking agreement on open standards that ensure interoperable, scalable and cost-effective mobile applications.
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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 [...]
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GHX hasn’t been wasting any time since deciding in favor of GS1.
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The Global Standards Management Process, or GSMP, is the pre-eminent worldwide collaborative forum where GS1 standards are built and maintained.
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‘Global Drug Infusion Pumps Market 2008-2012′ is a new research study that’s being made available via companiesandmarkets.com.
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At this direct link to GS1 Healthcare you can register to attend the 15th Global GS1 Healthcare Conference to be held October 6-8, 2009, in Hong Kong. The theme this year: “Raising the bar on patient safety and supply chain efficiency.”
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You may see this at first as just a local US story
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It’s not a very long or big story… just another indication of emerging markets represent substantial new growth in the coming two decades. And this means yet more emergent markets labeling, which is almost universally also GS1-compliant.
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“Pstt, hey buddy, wanna buy a barcode?”
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This news probably isn’t all that unexpected but it isn’t without its major implications. After all, Premier’s healthcare alliance works with 2,200 not-for-profit hospitals. The news
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