Healthcare industry

Monash Pharmacy Project

The project is led by the Pharmacy Department of Monash Medical Centre (a hospital within the Southern Health Area Health Service in Victoria), chaired by Health Purchasing Victoria, and project managed by GS1 Australia.

To date, the project has been undertaken in a phased approach.

Phase One

Phase One was concluded mid-2004, demonstrated that the GS1 System could be successfully implemented within the Hospital Pharmaceutical Supply Chain. This phase incorporated the use of EANCOM® format electronic purchase orders, purchase order acknowledgements and dispatch advice messages between suppliers and the Monash Medical Centre Hospital Pharmacy. In addition one participant applied GS1 identifiers and BarCodes to shipper and inner level product packaging.

Phase Two

Phase Two commenced in mid-2005. This phase involved broader implementation roll out of the processes used during the demonstration phase – to additional suppliers as well as all hospitals in the Southern Health network. In parallel and there was roll out of the functionality by other public hospitals. In addition, the scope was expanded to include data synchronisation via the National Product Catalogue (NPC).

Phase Three

Phase Three will commence in early to mid-2008. To register your interest to participate, please contact Georgia Blomberg, via email.

Refer to the project reports below for more information about each of the phases and their outcomes.

Monash Project Key Messages
download [format: pdf - date: September 2006 - size: 357kb]

Downloads

Information about the Monash Project Phase One and Two, can be found in the project report and case study accessible via the links below.

Phase One

eCommerce within the Hospital Pharmaceutical Supply Chain
Executive summary
download [format: pdf - date: November 2005 - size: 21kb]

Full report
download [format: pdf - date: November 2005 - size: 665kb]

Making eBusiness your business
download [format: pdf - date: November 2005 - size: 126kb]

Phase Two

Monash Pharmacy Project
Executive summary
download [format: pdf - date: December 2007 - size: 63kb]

Full report
download [format: pdf - date: December 2007 - size: 846kb]

Press releases

Monash Medical Centre leads Health Industry e-commerce initiative - phase 1 commences [March 2004]
Southern Health’s Pharmacy Department at Monash Medical Centre (MMC), in conjunction with Clifford Hallam, Hospital Supplies of Australia (HSA) and Orion Laboratories, will embark on an innovative e-commerce supply chain project, known as the MMC project.

Health e-commerce in Pharmacy seeks new partners - phase 1 results launched [September 2004]
Faster and more accurate receipts of pharmaceutical products were achieved during the Monash Medical Centre demonstration project have spurred on the project team’s commitment to further develop e-commerce capabilities for Victoria’s pharmaceutical supply chain using EAN.UCC standards.

Hospital pharmaceutical eCommerce looks healthy - phase 2 commences [September 2005]
Following the verifiable success of the pilot, Southern Health is now applying the improved process to hospitals across the Southern Health network.