GS1 Healthcare Users Group

The GS1 Healthcare Users Group consists of members from the leading pharmaceutical and medical device companies, regulators, logistics operators, industry associations who all lead the healthcare industry in the effective utilisation and development of global standards. The primary focus on automatic identification to improve patient safety however other key focus areas are:

prevention of medical errors
product authentication
tracking and tracing and,
increasing total supply chain efficiency.

The Australasian Healthcare Users Group - HUG Australasia held its inaugural meeting on 25th October 2006. The group has now been operational for three years and boasts a membership of over 70 companies, organisations and associations from throughout Australia and New Zealand.

At the global level, GS1 Healthcare have a roadmap of standards development activities covering all aspects of sector requirements including:

traceability
GTIN (Numbering) allocation and allocation rules
the identification of small instruments and medical devices
data synchronisation and information interoperability
the relationship between bar coding and RFID in healthcare

Click here for GS1's Healthcare resource library.

For further information contact: Gary Hartley - General Manager, Sector Development