Getting started with Traceability in your hospital/healthcare setting The Basics Siobhain Duggan, Director of Innovation and Healthcare Amanda Creane, Healthcare Project Management Executive October 2019 Introductions Siobhain Duggan Director of Innovation and Healthcare Email:
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[email protected] © GS1 2019 2 Safer, more efficient care starts with a simple scan The first scan in 1974 (45 years ago) EAN today © GS1 2019 An international standards organisation © GS1 2019 4 Global collaboration of standards organisations http://www.jointinitiativecouncil.org/ © GS1 2019 5 Agenda • Introduction 1. Why Traceability? 2. GS1 standards as an enabler in ehealth 3. Guidance for healthcare providers – getting started • Resources • Final thoughts • Q&A © GS1 2019 6 Why Traceability? Tim Daly, Industry Engagement Manager Amanda Creane, Healthcare Project Management Executive 30th August 2019 Hospital and Healthcare supply chains Are they safe? Are they efficient? Are they transparent? © GS1 2019 8 Risks to Patient Safety when standards not in place Adverse event Product Recall Patient Identification Falsified • Medication errors • Wrong site surgeries medicines • Wrong implant or prosthesis • Retained foreign object post- surgery • Misplaced oro- or naso-gastric tubes © GS1 2019 9 Patient Safety and Traceability today © GS1 2019 McKinsey & Company report on benefits of a single global standard New McKinsey report “Strength in unity: The promise of global standards