Welcome to the Coalition for Healthcare eStandards (CHeS), where reducing supply
chain costs means putting standards to work!
This site is devoted to the pursuit of creating and implementing
e-standards to increase efficiency and accuracy in the health care supply chain,
thereby reducing costs while improving business processes and supporting
quality health care.
2008 PDU for HEALTH CARE SPRING WEBINAR SERIES!
(Sponsored by AHRMM, CHeS and HSCSC)
The Association for Healthcare Resource & Materials Management (AHRMM), the Coalition for Healthcare eStandards (CHeS)
and the Healthcare Supply Chain Standards Coalition (HSCSC) are co-sponsoring a
five-part webinar series on product data and synchronization in health care.
Each session will focus on GS1 standards and the GDSN® for the health care industry.
Past webinars are now available for playback via the links below.
Registration for all webinars is free.
AHRMM members will receive 1 Contact Hour toward CMRP recertification, or 0.1
CEUs for attending each session.
2008 PDU for HEALTH CARE SPRING WEBINAR PLAYBACKS
Retail Success Story: A case of GDSN leadership for the health care industry
Original webcast: April 17, 2008
Wegmans, one of the nation’s top grocery chains, is a major partner in the grocery industry supply chain
that is synchronizing purchasing data. Wegmans is using GS1’s Global Data Synchronization Network (GDSN), the same network the global health
care industry is considering. This session will share highlight the successes,
challenges and lessons learned by the grocery industry as it adopted GS1
standards and began to synchronize data in the GDSN. A history of Wegmans’ involvement in supply chain standards and current data synchronization efforts
will be presented as well.
Marianne Timmons, VP Supply Chain and Global B-to-B, Wegmans Food Markets
Michael Gross, E-Commerce Manager, B2B, Wegmans Food Markets
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What is the Global Data Synchronization Network for Health Care?
Original webcast: March 27, 2008
GS1 GDSN is an automated, standards-based global environment that enables secure
and continuous data synchronization, allowing all trading partners to have
consistent item data in their systems at the same time. Participants will learn
how the system connects customers and suppliers, and why more than 14 countries
(including the U.S.) are considering GDSN as the global solution to data
synchronization in health care.
Peter J. Alvarez, Senior Director, GDSN Health care, GS1 GDSN, Inc.
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Defining a Health Care Product Data Utility (PDU)
Original webcast: March 20, 2008
This session provides an overview of the problems caused by lack of
synchronization, and highlights ongoing efforts to launch a Product Data
Utility in health care. The U.S. Department of Defense has released initial
results of an ongoing data synchronization pilot, where an existing product
data network known as the Global Data Synchronization Network® (GDSN®) is being tested. This session will focus on the initial pilot results which
show that GDSN demonstrates the potential to meet health care’s complex data synchronization needs.
Kathleen Garvin, Program Mgr. for Data Synchronization, DoD GDSN Pilot,
Dept. of Defense
Joe Pleasant, CIO, Premier, Inc., & Chair, Coalition for Healthcare eStandards (CHeS)
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GLN Registry for Healthcare
(held monthly through December 2008)
