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Tom Pereboom

GS1 standards impact growing sectors such as Healthcare – traceability of Implant and Medical devices

September 27th 2010

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Facts UMCU Operation Room

• Academic hospital;• 24,000 operations per year;• 3 OR facilities with 30 ORs;• Utilization of over 6,000 different articles over more

than 150 suppliers;• GHX as solution for external data pool;• Over 20,000 manually replenished orders.

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Objectives scanning project with GHX

• Automated recall procedure• Information about utilization of material• Auto replenishment

Target Realization

Surgical specialism 4 surgical specialism

Orthopedic and traumatology

Target scanning of suppliers 95% 90%

Target of real utilization scanning 85% 50%

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Need for GS1 standards

• Barcode scanning by Surgical Assistants• Standardization among the medical devices suppliers• Traceability standards within the supply chain

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Future

Supply chain management is at the beginning in the health care organizations/hospitals in the Netherlands. With GS1 we can start making improvements.