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Preparing for the journey ahead

Training is important and fundamental to successful implementation and adoption of standards, so we continue to working with and for you to provide quality educational material.

We have already developed two classroom training courses: “Introduction to GS1 in Healthcare” and “Traceability in Healthcare” and we will continue to expand our training portfolio to support the Healthcare programme. Two additional advanced courses “AIDC in Healthcare” and “GDSN in Healthcare” are currently in development.

In 2009, GS1 Switzerland and GS1 Tunisia hosted a two-day training session introducing GS1 in Healthcare to their users; and, GS1 Ireland hosted a two-day training session on traceability in healthcare.

Use our material to offer your own courses
We encourage you to re-use existing global training material for your own training sessions to your staff and users. Please do not hesitate to contact if you need assistance.

Attend a training
The following classroom trainings have already been scheduled for 2010:

• 18-19 February 2010 – BASIC - Introduction to GS1 in Healthcare - Global Office, Brussels, Belgium –– read more information
• 15-16 April 2010 – ADVANCED – AIDC and Traceability in Healthcare / Onsite training on hospital logistics – University Hospital of Dijon, France – more details to follow

If you are interested to have one of the healthcare courses in your region in 2010-2011, please let us know.

Our training catalogue for healthcare:

“Introduction to GS1 in Healthcare” (available now)

• Specific requirements of the healthcare supply chain
• Impact of public policy on business requirements
• GS1 Healthcare activities: user group, governance, roadmap, marketing activities
• Setting up a local user group
• Introduction to GS1 Standards for Healthcare : AIDC Application Standards, GDSN and Traceability

“Traceability in Healthcare” (available now)

• Understanding GS1’s Global Traceability Standard
• Healthcare context dependencies
• Technical traceability information
• The GS1 Global Traceability Conformance Programme
• Accessing information resources

“AIDC in Healthcare” (under development)

• AIDC Application Standard Phase 1 (approved - GS1 General Specifications Version 10 Issue 1)
• AIDC Applications Standard for Small Medical Instruments (approved - GS1 General Specifications Version 10 Issue 1)
• AIDC Application Standards Development: next steps
• GTIN Allocation Rules for Healthcare
• Healthcare specific configuration / packaging level definitions and examples (primary, secondary, case / shipper, pallet, direct part marking)
• Product Marking Grid: defining marking at each of the packaging levels , and providing examples (Minimum, Enhanced, Highest)
• Healthcare Trade Item definitions (Regulated Healthcare Trade Item, Regulated Healthcare Retail Consumer Trade Item, Regulated Healthcare Non-Retail Consumer Trade Item)
• Preferred Data Carriers (ALL that apply… why & where) for Healthcare items

“GDSN in Healthcare” (under development)

• The current state of data quality in healthcare, the problems and risks it creates.
• How the Global Data Synchronisation Network can be used to resolve this problem.
• The changes the GS1 Healthcare community has made to the GDSN standard to meet the healthcare needs.
• What is the GDSN Healthcare Extension and how does it work within the GDSN Item Model.
• The Global Deployment Initiative of the GDSN: Etoile in Healthcare.
• The 40 attributes identified by GS1 Healthcare for global deployment and why.
• Progress in local implementations.