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 [...]

New GS1 Healthcare US Success Story: EMD Serono

GS1 Healthcare US has posted a new success story,  

GS1 Hong Kong Supply Chain Management Excellence Summit Update

Webnewswire is carrying the text of a speech delivered at the GS1 Hong Kong Supply Chain Management Excellence Summit 2009 by Rita Lau. She is Hong Kong’s Secretary for Commerce and Economic Development.  

VHA Asks FDA for Speedy UDI Decision; Inclusion of Only GS1 Standards as Single Mandatory Solution

This news comes from Healthcare Purchasing News:  VHA Inc. and 13 of its largest health system members have sent a letter to the U.S. Food & Drug Administration requesting prompt issuance of Unique Device Identification (UDI) regulations, and that those regulations include  GS1 supply chain standards. At this link, you can see the full release direct [...]

GS1 Healthcare US Releases Two New Guidelines for Healthcare Providers and Suppliers

The GS1 Healthcare US Product Identification Workgroup has completed, and is releasing, two new guidelines for implementing GS1 standards in the hospital.  

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  

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.  

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 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 US and 55 Foodservice Companies Launch Major Initiative

This just came over the wire today: GS1 US™ announced today that 55 foodservice manufacturers, distributors and operators have launched the Foodservice GS1 US Standards Initiative, and have  

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 [...]

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  

“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 [...]

Autumn Report Promised on Use of GS1’s GDSN Among Healthcare Supply Chain Partners

At this link you can sign up to be on a mailing list which will alert you to a report scheduled for release this fall from GS1 Healthcare US on progress being made to implement GS1’s Global Data Synchronization Network® (GDSN®) in U.S. healthcare supply chains.  

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.

Major GS1 Implementation Update from GHX

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

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 [...]

GS1 Canada and HP Collaborate on Product Recall Process

The good part about this news that HP and GS1 Canada are working together on a GS1-based product recall application