Patient safety

The health care industry's supply chain, from manufacturer to patient, is highly fragmented and makes little use of automatic identification and data-capturing techniques, such as barcodes and RFID, which can help great deal in improving the quality of patient care and safety, decreasing operational costs and reducing risk. GS1 endeavors to cooperate with Egypt's health care industry to facilitate the development of co-managed and user-driven solutions (as accredited by ISO, JTC, CEN and other leading organizations).

 

Such solutions will be backed by a standard identification system for products, locations, care units, doctors and patients, allowing for automated data capturing and exchange. The techniques give end-to-end tracking and tracing capabilities, ultimately achieving a safer and more responsive health care supply chain management