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GS1 Healthcare Standards - Improving Patient Safety Worldwide

The medical sector is an extremely complex environment in which people, drugs and medical devices need to be permanently traced to ensure that the right drug is administrated to the right patient at the right time in the right
dosage.
But doctors and nurses are only human, and unfortunately that means that errors are made on a daily basis in hospitals around the world. Tired from long hours, often forced to do more than their share due to understaffing, sometimes the wrong dose is given to a patient. Or the wrong medicine. Or the right dose of the right medicine... but the wrong patient.
Every day, hundreds of people die because of medication errors like these. Most of those mistakes could be easily prevented and the medical sector is working toward that end.
And GS1 is helping.
The GS1 Healthcare group brings together hospitals, pharmaceutical companies, medical device manufacturers, transporters, and more.
These companies, many of whom are competitors, work together under our leadership to develop standards that will increase patient safety and improve patient care through reduced medication errors and improved product traceability.

GS1 Standards in Healthcare:
* reduce medication errors
* enable global traceability and authentication
* improve supply chain efficiency