A prerequisite for regulation across many global markets, GS1 standards are frequently used to comply with identification and barcoding requirements for pharmaceuticals, medical devices, and assets.

For manufacturers or labellers of these items, our standards can be used to meet the automatic identification and capture (AIDC) requirements, such as those for the EU Medical Device Regulation.

This brief introduction provides you with a short guide into the most commonly used GS1 standards in healthcare.

Used by healthcare providers and their suppliers, GLNs enable the unique identification of every organisation (i.e. an NHS trust), physical location (i.e. a department) and function (i.e. accounting) within a healthcare system.

Location information can then be captured wherever an event occurs, including directly at the point of patient care, each time an item of medical equipment is used, or goods are ordered or delivered.

This session explains how healthcare suppliers and providers can successfully allocate and manage GLNs.

LocationManager is a central GLN registry where suppliers and providers share their key location information. By providing a single source of accurate location information, you can be sure you are invoicing, shipping, and billing the right entities, locations and departments.

More than 35 hospital providers are actively managing and updating their GLNs in LocationManager, and in excess of 900 suppliers, have already subscribed.

This session provides insights into how LocationManager works.

Within the EU MDR (Medical Device Regulation), a new identifier has been introduced to classify a group of products – the Basic UDI-DI (BUDI-DI).  

BUDI-DI is the primary identifier of a device model assigned at the level of the device unit of use and must now be assigned to a product before it can be submitted for market registration and approval by authorities in the EU.

This session will explore how the GS1 Global Model Number (GMN) can be used to meet this requirement, and what UDI requirements are needed for MHRA Field Safety Notices (FSNs).

There has been a global movement towards regulations using standardised identifiers to identify healthcare products, such as pharmaceuticals, medical devices and in-vitro diagnostic devices (IVDs).

Whether you need a Device Identifier (DI) to comply with Unique Device Identification (UDI) or a unique product code for the Falsified Medicines Directive (FMD), the requirements can all be met using the GS1 Global Trade Item Number (GTIN). 

This webinar will explain how, including using GTINs for configurable and patient-specific items.

Suppliers of regulated healthcare products now need to include production information in their barcodes.

But how does this affect the barcode number itself? Do you need to change from a GTIN-13 to GTIN-14? There's no need! And this webinar holds the answers.

This session will provide you with a step-by-step guide for how to generate your GTINs as well as highlight the differences between a GTIN-13 and a GTIN-14 and when to use them.

The unique identification of trade items is critical to maintaining operational efficiencies that business partners rely on to exchange information about products in consistent ways.

However, many healthcare suppliers are not aware of, or fully understand, which changes to their products would require a new GTIN to facilitate these processes.

This webinar will provide an overview of the GTIN Allocation Rules – designed to help industry make consistent decisions about when to change GTINs.

When supplying regulated healthcare products, the NHS and regulators require production information to be captured in a barcode. This production information typically includes: production date, expiry date, batch/lot number, serial number, and software version, to name a few.

This short session explains how GS1 Application Identifier (AI) standards are used to capture this production information alongside the GTIN in GS1 barcodes.

When supplying regulated healthcare products, healthcare providers (including NHS trusts) and regulators, require a Product Identifier and production information to be captured in a barcode. 

But what barcode do you need to use?  

This short seminar details the barcodes available, how to choose the correct one for your product type, and how to decide on the best to use for different packaging levels and scanning environments.

So, you now know which barcode you should be using, but how do you ensure it scans first time every time?

By following GS1 standards for barcodes, you’ll give your barcodes the best chance of working across the healthcare supply chain.

This session includes everything you need to know about barcoding guidance including sizing, placement, colour combinations, and human readable interpretation (HRI).

Unfortunately things can go wrong when you print a barcode. Sometimes you can pick up these errors by eye – sometimes you need to dig a little deeper to understand why your barcode isn’t working to avoid those expensive re-labelling costs.

This session takes you through how to spot a poor quality barcode and discusses some of the services and technology you can use to make sure your symbols are good enough.