Health Care Trends: Supply Chain Standards are Here...and Required
Executive Summary
For years, hospitals have wanted to make the supply chain more efficient by adopting the type of standards that have made retail businesses such as Wal-Mart so successful. Now, AmeriNet and Premier, two of the hospital industry's largest group-purchasing organizations, have endorsed and adopted universal identification standards developed by GS1 (formerly the Universal Code Council), and will require all device manufacturers that contract for business through these groups to use them.
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