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Aroa World-Leading Biologics with Traceability Interview with Brian Ward ISSUE 50 SEPTEMBER 2020 Aroa world-leading biologics with traceability Interview with Brian Ward MEDICINAL CANNABIS CONTROL 4 GS1 HEALTHCARE 15 YEARS ON 5 CIDER IN MORNINGSIDE 11 Digitalisation as a Service Capture. Convert. Click. Collect. Pacific Commerce has digitally connected thousands of buyers and suppliers for over 20 years. Tens of thousands of dollars have been saved by our clients and endless errors minimalised. Digitalisation as a Service (DaaS) removes the manual data entry associated with your document processing. For less than $2 per document, we can automate and streamline your operational processes by digitalising your documents into a format that integrates with your business software package, reducing processing times by over 80%. DaaS is suitable for automating operational processes such as Accounts Payable and Accounts Receivable with optional 2 or 3-way matching and approval modules that can be tailored to specific workflow requirements. Visit pacificcommerce.com.au/page/contactus for a free no-obligation quote. GS1’s MediaLibrary Give GS1’s MediaLibrary a go FREE for One Month! Store, organise, find and share all kinds of digital content. Talk with GS1 today gs1nz.org/medialibrary SCAN magazine is produced twice yearly for the benefit of GS1 New Zealand Unless otherwise indicated, articles appearing in SCAN may be members. It has a circulation of approximately 6,000 readers throughout the reprinted provided that GS1 New Zealand is acknowledged. country as well as 114 GS1 member organisations worldwide. GS1 New Zealand For editorial or advertising enquiries please contact: PO Box 11 110 SCAN reaches decision-makers in a wide range of industry sectors Sheree Phillips on 04 494 1057 or [email protected]. Wellington including grocery, FMCG, healthcare, logistics, manufacturing, retailing, Advertising rates are on www.gs1nz.org/SCAN. +64 4 494 1050 wholesaling, transport and government. Our readership includes chief For copies of SCAN: To receive a digital or hard copy of SCAN 0800 10 23 56 executives, sales and marketing managers, account managers, brand and magazine, email [email protected] or phone 0800 10 23 56. +64 4 494 1051 product managers, IT personnel, operations managers, production SCAN is distributed to all members, and non-members are [email protected] managers, logistics and supply chain personnel, (barcoding) staff and welcome to subscribe. packaging coordinators. Cover Image supplied by: MAS - www.mas.co.nz GS1 COMMENT Digitalisation as a Service Capture. Infostructure in the time of COVID-19 COVID-19 is horrendous for our economy, not to mention peoples’ health and Convert. wellbeing. How critical, therefore, that all of us support the NZ COVID Tracer app for stopping community transmission. And how critical also that GS1 location identifiers Click. can enable our national tracing system to work with accuracy and speed. Every Kiwi is being urged, rightly, to advice and perhaps have a test yourself. to identify each of their locations. These download and use NZ COVID Tracer App If you test positive, you are asked to and other forms of GS1 identifier are Collect. on their smartphone. For their part, share your digital diary with the Ministry components of the “infostructure” which businesses are urged to download, print – and so the process of notification and New Zealand, like other countries, is Pacific Commerce has digitally connected thousands of buyers and suppliers for and display a Ministry of Health-supplied tracing alerts can continue. building to facilitate e-Invoicing and over 20 years. Tens of thousands of dollars have been saved by our clients and QR code for each of their locations. Each other forms of digital connection endless errors minimalised. of us visiting or working at any location Critically, the system collects no between companies, and between will need to scan the code on arrival – information on you or your movements companies and government agencies. Digitalisation as a Service (DaaS) removes the manual data entry associated with and thereby, automatically record the until such time as you are alerted of your document processing. place, date and time in their phone’s possible infection, are tested and agree COVID-19 has no silver linings. But it is For less than $2 per document, we can automate and streamline your operational “digital diary”. to share your digital diary. Obviously the giving us all another glimpse of how processes by digitalising your documents into a format that integrates with your act of scanning a QR code does not infostructure can truly serve a modern business software package, reducing processing times by over 80%. The GS1 identifiers in question are Global signal your whereabouts to anyone else: economy, especially in times of great need. Location Numbers (GLNs). Every DaaS is suitable for automating operational processes such as Accounts Payable NZ COVID Tracer does not automatically business location – shop, restaurant, Kia kaha. and Accounts Receivable with optional 2 or 3-way matching and approval collect information from your diary. The office, warehouse and so on – can have a modules that can be tailored to specific workflow requirements. app has been designed with individual unique GLN. That QR code posted at privacy as a critical consideration. Visit pacificcommerce.com.au/page/contactus for a free no-obligation quote. your favourite café or your workplace door is simply a means of presenting its In all this, the importance of the GLN GLN in a form that can be scanned for cannot be over-stated. How could any automatic creation of a new diary entry. matching process work efficiently Dr Peter Stevens without some means of uniquely Chief Executive So, NZ COVID Tracer works like this: You identifying every single location for scan a QR code; the diary entry thus possible connection with anyone in New created accurately identifies the place, Zealand? In fact “unique” means globally date and time; whenever your unique: Your café or workplace can be smartphone is online, it is enabled digitally distinguished from every other through the app to receive notifications location in the world. of all places and dates/times associated with people who have recently been Of course GLNs are not new. They have Celebrating tested COVID positive (their movement been used for years by GS1 members for details having been collected by health multiple traceability and business editions officials after diagnosis); the management purposes, and they are the of SCAN notifications are “silent” (you do not see foundation of the New Zealand Business 50 them) but the app will alert you to Number (NZBN) scheme. Every NZBN is since 2001 matches in place and time that do occur drawn from a massive block of GLNs between you and a COVID-positive supplied by GS1 to the Government person; and in response to any match years ago, and businesses can now alert, you are advised to seek medical receive their own sets of serialised GLNs GS1 New Zealand sadly notes the passing in June of Paul Cressey, formerly a long time member of our Board. Paul, a pharmacist by profession, made a huge contribution to the New Zealand Healthcare sector in various roles throughout this career. He was deputy Chair of the Counties Manukau District Health Board for many years, and an appointee to official working groups on issues that encompassed leadership and governance, and health information standards. Paul was a Ministerial appointee to the GS1 Board from 2007 to 2016. He was a tremendous advocate for GS1 Standards and data quality in the Healthcare sector, and a highly valued colleague and friend to GS1 Board members and staff. Our deepest sympathies go to Paul’s wife, Sheryn and their family. ISSUE 50 3 MEMBER PROFILE QSafe – digital innovation for control of medicinal cannabis Medicinal cannabis involves pharmaceutical innovation with potentially huge therapeutic benefits. And its arrival in New Zealand has spurred digital innovation hugely beneficial to control of this particularly sensitive form of medicine. Eqalis Pharmaceuticals has created a smart, secure system for the in-pharmacy storage and dispensing of its cannabinoid products – and not surprisingly, the use of GS1 identifiers is an integral part of the system. Eqalis is one of the first companies to Based in the Bay of Plenty, it is developing The QSafe system enables cannabinoid be licensed for research, production, formulations to treat a variety of medicines to be held in community processing and supply of cannabinoid conditions including chronic and palliative pharmacies, ready for dispensing on medicines under the Misuse of Drugs pain, epilepsy, spascity, anxiety and receipt of an e-prescription through the (Medicinal Cannabis) Regulations 2019. depression. Subject to the satisfactory NZePS health information exchange. It has invented QSafe to facilitate the completion of clinical trials, Eqalis Each QSafe interfaces with the future availability of these medicines to intends to register new products with computer system in that pharmacy and patients as cheaply as possible, with Medsafe in coming years. “It is early enables the automatic recording of automation of all necessary information days in development of the full details required under section 29: recording and exchange. QSafe is a spectrum of formulations and their Information on medicines received, held temperature-controlled storage safe, delivery to patients, and we believe and dispensed is captured and shared, connected to the New Zealand potential therapeutic benefits are with pharmacists freed from their ePrescription Service (NZePS) and tremendous,” says Elizabeth Plant, Eqalis traditional manual tasks of updating a enabled for the scanning of products as Chief Medical Officer. controlled drug register. they are moved in and out. New Zealand’s Medicinal Cannabis Each bottle of medicine will be labelled Eqalis is committed to helping build a Scheme took effect from 1 April this with a barcoded GS1 GTIN (global trade medicinal cannabis industry in this year after legislative change in 2018.
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