What is the benefit of developing global standards and how can the industry go about successfully formulating and implementing them?
Abstract
The COVID-19 pandemic reveals how much the healthcare supply chain is fragile. Considerable efforts have been undertaken in the last 15 years to improve security and efficiency. Now one can measure the value of standards and require them to be implemented worldwide. This paper discusses how regulatory driven initiatives such as unique device identifier (UDI), identification of medicinal product (IDMP) and the measures to fight against falsification are among those which will provide improvement for global health.
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Author's Biography
Christian Hay has a track record of over 20 years in healthcare. He played a leading role in the implementation of the GS1 System in Switzerland: narcotics control, logistics between pharmaceutical companies and wholesalers and aspects of the new billing rule for health insurance providers (TARMED). He has worked since 2003 for GS1 Switzerland and France, as well as at European and international levels, to address the specific standardised identification needs of the healthcare sector. Traceability and product pedigree are key issues for patient safety. Since 2008, Christian Hay represents GS1 Healthcare in the field of health informatics, as liaison to ISO TC 215, CEN TC 251, HL7 International and ICCBBA. He is involved in the European Union Horizon 2020 project ‘UNICOM’ as deputy lead Work Package 1. Christian is a member of the Board of the Swiss Medical Informatics Association, founding member IHE Suisse and lecturer at the University of Applied Sciences in Bern.
Citation
Hay, Christian (2020, December 1). What is the benefit of developing global standards and how can the industry go about successfully formulating and implementing them?. In the Journal of Supply Chain Management, Logistics and Procurement, Volume 3, Issue 2. https://doi.org/10.69554/GOMI8887.
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