mHealth : GS1 project

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Who is GS1?

GS1 is a not-for-profit organisation dedicated to the design and implementation of global standards to improve the efficiency and visibility of supply chains globally and across sectors

GS1 Global OfficeIdentification, creation, development and maintenance of standards and our foundational architecture, coordination with other international bodies, development of training programmes...

GS1 Member OrganisationsLocal offices in 111 countries around the globeImplementation of standards, local regulatory adjustments, community management and relationship management with local governments and regulatory agencies...

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Global reach, local presence

111 Member Organisations1,500,000 member companies

150 countries served2,000 people helping us

Over 6 billion transactions a day

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GS1 System of Standards

GS1 Standards for identifying, capturing, and sharing information—about products, business locations, and more—make it possible for companies to speak the same language, connect with each other, and move their business forward.

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GS1 Standards

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GS1 Standards

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Voluntary, Global Healthcare User Group

To lead the healthcare sector to the successful development and implementation of global standards by bringing together experts in healthcare to enhance

patient safety and supply chain efficiencies.

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mHealth HL7-GS1

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• Scope:• The project consists in bringing GS1 closer to HL7

experts by using some useful tool to capture and document their participation to the mHealth WG sessions.

• Ideally, the project should be scalable, so that it grows along the time and continues interesting the experts. If/when successful, the solution could be expanded to the full HL7 Working Groups.

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• Boundaries:• To bring GS1 closer to HL7 experts, data capture has to

occur by reading GS1 symbols – ideally GS1 DataMatrix (and not QR Matrix, which could be confused with ordinary tools such as web access for advertisements, etc.).

• The project must be sufficiently simple not to require registering cell phone number of experts or other heavy administrative work.

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• A phased approach – to seek sustainability:• The idea is to start the project with the simplest solution,

to raise expert’s awareness and interest. Data capture will then only document expert’s participation to every mHealth WG session (quarter). Participation list will be generated from this information.

Is this sufficient for a first phase?Shall we immediately add the next phase to make the project attractive?

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• A phased approach – to seek sustainability:• By developing the tool for a second phase, experts will

have access (by download or by ordering an email) to mHealth’s documents and agenda. Possibly the best is to generate an email with attachments so that the ordering occurs through the mobile device, and the reception on a regular computer.

Meeting ID (by Q)

Participant ID

Email meeting documents to participant’s mail box+

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• A phased approach – to seek sustainability:• The third stage would consist in expanding the project to

all participants to HL7 WGM, thus requiring the GS1 membership and entering the productive mood.

• More stages, more usability to be defined.

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• Hypothesis:• HL7 to become a GS1 user and ask for a GS1 Company

Prefix, so that every participant to HL7 WGM receives a GS1 GSRN (the identification code for the relationship with HL7), which will be printed on the participation badges.

• In a first run, the GS1 GSRN will be assigned in demonstration mode to a limited number of participants.

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mHealth update

• If you have questions or comments, please contact

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Christian HayGS1

Christian.hay@gs1.org+41 21 825 3219 (office)+41 76 369 1054 (cell)