LOUISVILLE, Colo., Sept. 20 /PRNewswire/ — In an
effort to improve the accuracy and efficiency of the
healthcare supply chain, Siemens Healthcare Diagnostics (Siemens)
has published product data including GS1 Global Trade Item Numbers
(GTINs) for its entire U.S. product line into the GHX Health
ConneXion(SM) data pool. GHX Health ConneXion is the only data pool
certified by GS1’s Global Data Synchronization Network (GDSN®)
that is focused solely on healthcare. Authorized subscribers to the
GDSN can now access product data standardized with GTINs for
Siemens reagents and consumables that can be purchased via EDI in
the U.S. Siemens and GHX are also actively working to publish GTINs
for additional Siemens product lines in Australia and Europe.
Global healthcare suppliers are faced with numerous regulatory
and market-driven requirements to publish product item data for a
variety of purposes, including increased product visibility for
improved patient safety, electronic transactions, contract
compliance and reporting. For eight years, Siemens has published
its product catalog to the GHX AllSource® content repository to
facilitate e-commerce with its customers. By expanding its
partnership with GHX through membership in the GHX Health ConneXion
data pool, Siemens can now leverage its existing connectivity to
GHX to provide customers and other trading partners with a single
source of accurate and timely product information to meet both
market-driven sunrise dates for the use of global data standards,
and emerging regulatory initiatives, such as the U.S. Food and Drug
Administration’s (FDA) requirement to assign unique device
identifiers (UDIs) to products.
“We have already established the necessary processes to publish
product data to GHX through our work with AllSource. Therefore,
participation in the GHX Health ConneXion data pool offers the most
efficient means for us to provide our customers with data for
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