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So a customer demands that you use GLN’s and GTIN’s. What next?

March 22nd, 2010 | Author: Dirk Rodgers

In the healthcare supply chain a significant number of hospital group purchasing organizations (GPO’s) have stipulated, to varying degrees, that their suppliers begin making use of GS1 Global Location Numbers (GLN’s) in all of their trade with their member hospitals by the end of 2010 (Sunrise 2010) and GS1 Global Trade Item Numbers (GTIN’s) by the end of 2012 (Sunrise 2012). Here are the announcements from Novation, Premier, MedAssets and Amerinet. From the wording of their announcements it appears that Read the rest of this entry »

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Tags: GDSN, GLN, GPO, GS1, GS1 U.S., GTIN, Healthcare supply chain, HIBC, HIBCC, HIN, master data, SCMD, Sunrise 2010, Sunrise 2012, supply chain master data |

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WAR: GS1 Vs. HIBCC

March 15th, 2010 | Author: Dirk Rodgers

That’s right. GS1 and HIBCC are in a multi-year fight over the dominance of their standards within the U.S. healthcare supply chain. Read the rest of this entry »

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Tags: DoD, FDA, FDAAA, GCP, GLN, GPO, GS1, GTIN, HIBCC, HIN, NDC, NHRIC, standards, Sunrise 2010, Sunrise 2012, UDI, UPN |

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Dirk Rodgers

Dirk is currently a Sr. Consultant in IT working within the U.S. Pharmaceutical Supply Chain. He is currently co-chair of several technical work groups in GS1 and GS1 US. He was a co-chair of the original GS1 EPCglobal Drug Pedigree Messaging work group that created the DPMS pedigree standard. Dirk holds a BS in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

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