GS1 and HL7 Join Forces to Develop Global Standards to Improve Patient Care
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15th June 2007
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Two complementary global standards organisations will collaborate to develop global healthcare standards to reduce medical errors and to increase the effectiveness of the healthcare supply chain.
ANN ARBOR, MI, U.S.A, and BRUSSELS, BELGIUM, June 13, 2007
HL7 and GS1 have announced today they have signed a Memorandum of Understanding that begins an era of collaboration in developing global standards for improving patient care.
GS1 aims to adapt their existing global supply chain standards to the specific needs of the healthcare sector. GS1’s global standards for automatic identification (through barcodes and radio frequency identification) provide the opportunity to make the healthcare supply chain more efficient and accurate, and thus safer. Medication errors can be avoided by automatically matching product data to patient data. These standards also enable effective traceability and reduce counterfeiting.
HL7’s clinical interoperability standards, such as the Version 3 Messaging Standard, increase the effectiveness and efficiency in exchanging, managing, and integrating electronic healthcare information. HL7 has been successful in improving information sharing at the time and point of care to enhance quality and reduce errors.
“For the past 20 years, HL7 has been successful in improving interoperability of healthcare information sharing at the time and point of care, that improves the quality of patient care and reduces errors,” said Dr. Charles Jaffe, CEO of HL7, “The partnership with GS1 will accelerate the development and adoption of global standards for sharing information among our stakeholders.”
“GS1 is committed to the healthcare sector to facilitate the development and adoption of global supply chain standards, first and foremost to improve patient safety”. Michel van der Heijden, President Healthcare, GS1, “We are convinced that the collaboration with HL7 will be at the benefit of the healthcare community by aligning the standards development and joining forces in promoting global standards in the healthcare community".
Contact:
Andrea Ribick, Director of Communications - HL7
Jan Denecker, Marketing Manager Healthcare - GS1 Global Office
