1. Supply Chain Reform Taking a fresh look at the needs of Australian Healthcare
Catherine Koetz, Industry Manager - Healthcare, GS1 Australia
August 2017

2. Introductions…

3. GS1 purpose
GS1 believes in the power of standards to transform the way we work and live.
We create a common foundation for organisations by uniquely identifying, accurately capturing and automatically sharing vital information about products, locations, people and assets
We enable visibility through the exchange of authentic data
We empower organisations to grow and to improve efficiency, safety, security and sustainability
We are:
Neutral and not-for-profit
User-driven and governed
Global and local
Inclusive and collaborative

4. Healthcare ‘Value Chain’
Supply Chain Processes >>>> Supporting >>>> Clinical Processes

5. GS1 can support key business processes Supply chain processes
Order-to-cash
Accuracy in processes
Catalogue management
Inventory management
Product recalls
Regulatory compliance

6. GS1 can support key business processes Hospital support processes
Product recalls
Inventory management
Asset management
Patient-level costing
Order-to-cash management
Catalogue management

7. GS1 can support key business processes Hospital clinical processes
Bedside scanning— patient, caregiver, product scanning and verification
Electronic Health Records (EHR)— patients’ records management
Implant registry
Instrument management and tracking (e.g., surgical instrument tracking, loan-set tracking, etc.)
Product recalls
Regulatory compliance
Preparation of patient specific infusion solutions and dispensing of pharmaceuticals
Traceability
Supporting clinical pathways
Supporting clinical pathways

8. Supply Chain Reform Taking a fresh look at the needs of Australian Healthcare
Catherine Koetz, Industry Manager - Healthcare, GS1 Australia
August 2017

9. National ‘reform’ program so far
TRANSTION TO EHEALTH
INCREASED DIGITISATION
PCEHR
MY HEALTH RECORD
CLINICAL TERMINOLOGY
PATIENT CENTRICITY & SAFETY
SUPPLY CHAIN PROGRAM
INTEROPERABILITY
NPC Locatenet
Recall Health eProcurement
Use of standards
Increased focus of standards
Continued support of foundational services

10. “Take care of the patient and everything else will follow. ” Dr
“Take care of the patient and everything else will follow.” Dr. Thomas Frist Sr. Founder of the Hospital Corporation of America

11. Creating a visible healthcare system
The first critical foundation is a policy framework requiring every product and process in healthcare to use consistent global standards that uniquely identifies patients, the processes they experience, the products used in care delivery, the places where treatment occurs, all linked to providers who deliver the care.

12. Patient safety remains one of the greatest challenges in healthcare today…
Is the third leading cause of death in North America (right behind heart disease and cancer)
Medical error
Despite decades of research and safety initiatives very limited improvements have been made in addressing patient safety issues
Still an issue
While there is a growing awareness globally of the challenge of patient safety, there is little evidence of actual improvement in the increasing rates of deaths and serious injury related to error and adverse events.
Little improvement
Visibility: The New Value Proposition for Health Systems, Snowden and Alessi 2016, World Health Innovation Network

13. “Implementing global standards across the entire healthcare supply chain could save 22,000 to 43,000 lives and avert 0.7 to 1.4 million patient disabilities”
Strength in unity: the promise of global standards in healthcare, McKinsey Report (2012)

14. Imagine a world where… the patient rights were reality, all the time!
Right route
Right caregiver
Right medication
Right dose
Right medical device
Right time
Standards enable the critical connections we need to deliver the digital health solutions of tomorrow…
Right patient

15. Supply Chain Reform
versus
Supply chain evolving to support the ongoing transformation to safer and more sustainable Healthcare

16. Transforming for interoperability
Today Hospitals worldwide are transforming their operations to improve patient safety and outcomes.
GS1 standards are enabling healthcare providers to use a global common language for identification and data sharing that will allow all stakeholders to work together seamlessly
Changing manual process into digital ones and realising the value of GS1 Standards as critical enablers of this transformation

17. What are we doing or could we do to take the next step to transform what we do in healthcare supply chain?

18. Recent UK site visits – Highlights
Meeting
Meeting with people who are also trying to achieve the same goals, who have implemented projects, documented benefits and willing to share
Hearing
How challenges were overcome, what plans are for next projects, what they would do differently
Seeing
Some amazing implementations!
Sharing
In all directions as the sites visited were happy to share their knowledge and information but also wanted to hear about what has been done in AU
Learning
Ideas of where to start projects locally, but core enablers are fundamental so we need to get these in place – standards first, then build amazing solutions

19. Core takeaways – for us to consider
GS1 standards are core enablers to being able to achieve the next layer of efficiency and visibility across health systems at a local, national and global level;
It is not about supply chain or procurement in isolation – it is about what it does to make the patient pathway more transparent and safer – we need to change how we think;
The value comes in the implementation in operational use – not in just agreeing to do anything – the key is finding the best point to start and do so (not all organisations are the same afterall);
Regulation is the best enabler – but it is not the only way - the industry stakeholders in many countries are leading change and improvement but working together;
Solution providers need to be natively supporting standards
To bring the changes to life nationally we need demonstration sites – but every one can make small incremental changes to continue the transformation process

20. Thanks for listening… Catherine Koetz
Industry Manager – Healthcare, GS1 Australia