Webinar: How Can You Quickly Adopt Data Standards for Unique Device Identification?

Loftware is pleased to announce, as an extension of our blog, a series of educational webinars to focus on the process of meeting unique device identification requirements and the adoption of GS1 data standards.
Our kick-off session will be held on December 1, 2009 and registration can be found here.
This first session will focus on the [...]

GS1 Releases GPC Codes for Drugs and Medical Devices

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

‘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.  

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  

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 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 [...]

The FDA, the UDI law, GS1 and Two Pivotal Dates: 10/12/09 and 10/20/09

Here’s a look at an email we got from GS1 Healthcare US about the upcoming UDI Conference being held October 20-21, 2009, in Orlando, Florida. It says attendees can expect to receive first-hand information on the progress and direction of the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) Unique Device Identification (UDI) draft regulation at this [...]

“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.
Announced [...]

Newly-Formed GS1 MobileCom Steering Committee Being Led by Nestlé, Kraft, J&J, Wal-Mart, Metro and Carrefour

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.

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 [...]

Major GS1 Implementation Update from GHX

GHX hasn’t been wasting any time since deciding in favor of GS1.  

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, [...]

GS1 Seeking Healthcare Professioinals to Join the Fresh Foods Work Group

The Global Standards Management Process, or GSMP, is the pre-eminent worldwide collaborative forum where GS1 standards are built and maintained.

GS1 Australia and Victoria University Piloting Mobile App for Diet

One of the questions some people have these days when it comes to GS1 — and the lists of attributes you can pull from the GDSN on anything that is GS1 coded — is, “What in the world are we going to do with all the additional data we’re able to get?” Answers to that [...]

Emerging Markets a Key to Drug Infusion Pump Manufacturers’ Growth – And More GS1 Labeling

‘Global Drug Infusion Pumps Market 2008-2012′ is a new research study that’s being made available via companiesandmarkets.com.  

GS1 Healthcare Sets 15th Global Conference for October in Hong Kong

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.”

GS1 US Traceability Implementation Guide Now Available

You may see this at first as just a local US story

Emerging Markets to Lift Air Charter International’s Growth Prospects

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.

Beware Black Market GS1 Barcodes

“Pstt, hey buddy, wanna buy a barcode?”

GS1’s 1SYNC Data Pool Selected by The Premier Healthcare Alliance

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