Healthcare industry
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Background |
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Key organisations |
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Industry Initiatives |
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Information Library |
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Past Events |
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Case Studies / GS1 Working with Industry |
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Useful Links |
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Contact Information |
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1. Background
The Healthcare industry sector in Australia is a major part of the economy with total public and private expenditure on Healthcare equaling approximately 10% of GDP and with more than 65,000 million dollars spent on Healthcare per annum.
Healthcare is a complex industry sector where patient safety is paramount but where other drivers; such as the ability to authenticate pharmaceuticals and medical devices, track and trace products from manufacture to the patient, and supply chain improvement - come a close second.
There are more than 1200 public and private sector hospitals in Australia. The majority of doctors, including GPs, are self-employed with a small proportion consisting of salaried employees of Commonwealth, State or Local Governments.
The import and supply of medicines and medical devices is regulated by the Australian Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) in order to ensure the quality, safety and effectiveness of the products.
Medicines, or pharmaceuticals, prescribed by doctors and dispensed in the community by independent private sector pharmacies are directly subsidised by the Commonwealth Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS).
2. Key organisations
IVD Australia Profile
IVD Australia is the peak body representing sponsors and manufacturers of in vitro diagnostics (IVDs).
IVD Australia was formed in July 2009 and currently represents over 60 multinational companies and local distributors as well as Australian manufacturers of IVD's. Our members currently supply products valued at over $800,000,000 and they employ over 2000 people across Australia.
IVDs are the blood, urine and other bodily fluid and tissue tests that are requested by GPs, specialists and other healthcare professionals to assist to diagnose and manage illness and disease in hospitals and the community. These tests are often performed in accredited public and private pathology laboratories. IVDs also include over-the-counter tests such as home pregnancy tests and blood glucose meters for managing diabetes.
National E-Health Transition Authority (NEHTA)
National E-Health Transition Authority Limited is a not-for-profit company established by the Australian, State and Territory governments to develop better ways of electronically collecting and securely exchanging health information. One of the key NEHTA initiatives is Healthcare Supply Chain reform.
To enable such reform NEHTA has developed a National Product Catalogue (NPC) across all procurement categories, enabling suppliers to maintain a single suite of standards and provide a cost effective way of maintaining current and accurate supply information. In addition, NEHTA has developed a business case and technical documentation around eProcurement, using GS1’s global eMessaging standard, GS1 XML, as the document format for Australia’s health eProcurement strategy.
NETHA position statement referring to NPC and eProcurement
Click here to visit the NEHTA website.
Australia Self-Medication Industry (ASMI)
The Australia Self-Medication Industry is the peak industry body for the Australian self-care industry including consumer healthcare products ranging from over-the-counter medicines (OTC) to complementary medicines.
The mission of ASMI is to promote better health through responsible self-care. This means ensuring that safe and effective self-care products are readily available to all Australians at a reasonable cost. ASMI works to encourage an integrative approach to health, responsible use of OTC and complementary medicines by consumers and an increasing role for cost-effective self-medication products as part of the overall Australian health strategy.
Click here to visit the Australia Self-Medication Industry website.
Medical Technology Association of Australia (MTAA)
The Medical Technology Association of Australia is the peak industry body representing the Australian medical device industry. MTAA members play a vital role in the Australian healthcare system by supplying non-pharmaceutical medical products to hospitals, medical professionals and patients.
Between them, MTAA members distribute over 85% of the non-pharmaceutical products used in the diagnosis or treatment of disease. Products range from familiar items such as syringes and wound dressings through to high-technology implanted devices, hospital capital equipment, sophisticated diagnostic products, self-care items and laboratory consumables.
Click here to visit the Medical Technology Association of Australia website.
National Blood Authority (NBA)
The National Blood Authority is the national manager of contracts with suppliers of blood and blood products on behalf of all Australian Governments, who together provide a total of over $500m annually for the NBA to manage the blood supply on behalf of all Australians.
In May 2007, the National Blood Authority Jurisdictional Blood Committee (JBC) endorsed a National Policy on Barcoding for Blood and Blood Products, listing GS1-128 (formerly EAN-128) as the barcode for use for all plasma, recombinant and diagnostic products.
Click here to visit the National Blood Authority website.
3. Industry Initiatives
GS1 Healthcare
The mission of the GS1 Healthcare industry group is to lead the healthcare sector to the effective utilisation and development of global standards with the primary focus on automatic identification to improve patient safety.
The vision is of this group is to become the single source for regulatory agencies and trade organisations (manufacturer, wholesaler, hospital and pharmacy) to seek input and direction for global standards in the healthcare industry.
GS1 Healthcare participants meet twice per annum for conferences. They are very active in implementing GS1 standards, as well as developing industry guidelines and tools.
Click here to visit the GS1 Healthcare website.
GS1 Healthcare User Group Australasia (HUG Australasia)
In order to ensure the requirements of Australian and New Zealand Healthcare organisations are taken into account by GS1 Healthcare, the HUG - Australasia has been formed.
National Product Catalogue (NPC)
The National E-Health Transition Authority (NEHTA), in association with GS1 Australia, is rolling out a National Product Catalogue (NPC). Endorsed by all State, Territory and Federal Health Departments, the NPC is the 'single source' of item master data for public health institutions seeking to purchase medicines, medical devices and other necessary healthcare items.
The NPC is hosted by GS1 Australia on GS1net™, its data synchronisation platform used in Australia by more than 1300 companies across a number of industry sectors including Grocery, Liquor, Hardware, Automotive, General Merchandise, and others.
NEHTA eProcurement Solution
GS1's global eMessaging standard GS1 XML has been endorsed by the National E-Health Transition Authority (NEHTA) as the document format for Australia's health eProcurement solution. The standard will be used in conjunction with the National Product Catalogue (NPC) to provide a significant opportunity for the public health sector to make considerable efficiency gains and cost savings, through supply chain processes.
| WA Health Position Statement – eProcurement |
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| Press Release - Public Health eProcurement to use GS1 XML |
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| Technical Publications and Specifications | |
| NEHTA publications |
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4. Information Library
The following documents are relevant to the Healthcare Industry:
| Reference Book | |
| GS1 Healthcare Reference Book 2011/2012 |
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| GS1 Healthcare Reference Book 2010/2011 |
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| GS1 Healthcare Reference Book 2009/2010 | download |
| Newsroom | |
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The GS1 AIDC Healthcare Implementation Guide which specifies how to identify and bar code products in Healthcare [2011]
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NETHA position statement referring to NPC and eProcurement [2010]
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Fact Sheet Unambiguous Product Identification [2010]
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Health e-procurement goes live [2008]
- WA Health has implemented the NEHTA e-Procurement solution developed for Australian governments' health purchasing. |
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The New Zealand Medication Safety Project [2007]
- The New Zealand Medication Safety Project is an initiative of the New Zealand Ministry of Health to reduce medication errors by introducing bedside verification of medications using a standardised (GS1) barcode point of care system in all public hospitals. |
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GS1 Healthcare and ICCBBA join forces to advance global standards to improve patient safety [2007]
- Two complementary global standards organisations will collaborate to advance global automatic identification standards in Healthcare. |
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New Zealand Ministry of Health Bedside Verification Project Outline [2007]
- This project aims to support health professional in the medication administration process by introducing bedside verification of medication. This will reduce the number of adverse medication events and with that reduce the number of patients adversely impacted by those events. |
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Public Health eProcurement to use GS1 XML [2007]
- GS1's global eMessaging standard GS1 XML has been endorsed by NEHTA (the National E-Health Transition Authority) as the document format for Australia's health eProcurement strategy. |
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New Zealand Ministry of Health Bedside Verification Cost Utility Analysis [2007]
- This cost utility analysis provides further detail to the consultation document "Improving Medication Safety: Bedside verification". It is recommended that the consultation document is read first. |
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GS1 and HL7 Join Forces to Develop Global Standards to Improve Patient Care [2007]
- Two complementary global standards organisations will collaborate to develop global healthcare standards. IHF joins GS1 effort to improve patient safety through global supply chain standards. |
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Creation of a better medication safety culture in Europe: Building up safe medication practices [2007]
- The Council of Europe Committee of Experts on Pharmaceutical Questions established the Expert Group on Safe Medication Practices in 2003 to review medication safety and to prepare recommendations to specifically prevent adverse events caused by medication errors in European health care. This is Expert Group's final report. |
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Coding for Success: Simple technology for safer patient care [2007]
- This publication provides an overview of the NHS plans for implementation of the GS1 System in the UK. |
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Public Health eProcurement to use GS1 XML [2007]
- GS1's global eMessaging standard GS1 XML has been endorsed by the National E-Health Transition Authority (NEHTA) as the document format for Australia's health eProcurement strategy. |
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Health barcodes cheaper, safer than RFID[Source: Computerworld - 2007]
- RFID scanners are less tightly focussed than a barcode beam, says report. |
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Barcodes to curb medicine bungles [Source: One News]
- Hospital patients are likely to be fitted with their own barcodes in a bid to reduce the number of medication bungles. |
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| Guidelines | |
| Healthcare GTIN Allocation Rules
- An international guideline for GTIN Assignment for pharmaceutical and medical device products, built upon and consistent with the GS1 System rules for GTIN allocation across all industry sectors. |
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| Healthcare GLN Application Guideline | download |
| The GS1 AIDC Healthcare Implementation Guide which specifies how to identify and bar code products in Healthcare | download |
| Brochures | |
| NPC Fast Track Brochure |
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| GS1 Standards in the Healthcare Supply Chain - Improving patient safety
- Learn how the GS1 standards can be used to improve patient safety and supply chain efficiency in Healthcare. |
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5. Events
| Past events | |
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6. Case Studies / GS1 Working with Industry
eProcurement – Health Corporate Network Leverages the GS1 System
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[format: pdf - date: July 2011 - size: 717kb]
HPV - Health Purchasing Victoria case study - Health procurement leader turns to Australia's National Product Catalogue to improve tendering
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[format: pdf - date: December 2010 - size: 430kb]
Building traceability in Australian healthcare
download [format: pdf - date: May 2010 - size: 630kb]
ResMed: helping the medical world, underpinned by a robust global supply chain
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[format: pdf - date: December 2008 - size: 641kb]
GS1 Australia is constantly looking at opportunities for presenting new case studies. If you would like to contribute to a case study, please contact us on 1300 366 033 or via email.
7. Useful links
Below is a list of other links you may find helpful:
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GS1 Healthcare |
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HUG Australasia |
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National E-Health Transition Authority |
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National Blood Authority |
8. Contact Information
For further information on any of the Healthcare industry initiatives contact:
Natalie Jabbour
Advisor, Healthcare - GS1 Australia
P: 1300 BARCODE (1300 227 263)
E: natalie.jabbour@gs1au.org
Helle Clausen
Senior Advisor, Industry Engagement - GS1 Australia
P: 1300 BARCODE (1300 227 263)
E: helle.clausen@gs1au.org
Tania Snioch
Industry Manager, Healthcare - GS1 Australia
P: 1300 BARCODE (1300 227 263)
E: tania.snioch@gs1au.org
