December 2005
The Coalition for Healthcare eStandards
Endorses Use of GLN in Healthcare
Health Care Insights: Change only comes
with leaders
[Materials
Management Magazine]
In the business world, one of the biggest
barriers to fixing industry-wide problems isn't always in
identifying the proper solutions. Many times, it's determining
who's responsible for tackling the problem. In the health care
industry, one of the most pressing business problems is the
need to establish a common language in purchasing transactions,
something routinely done in other industries. It's estimated
that billions of dollars could be saved annually if all parties
in the health care supply chain used the same codes to identify
products, buyers and sellers. The organization that's been
willing to take responsibility for that monumental task is the
Coalition for Healthcare eStandards (CHeS), Ann Arbor, Mich.
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in Materials Management Magazine.
CHeS to encourage adoption of Global
Locator Number as the single customer identification standard
in healthcare to drive down supply chain costs
ANN ARBOR, MI – The Coalition for
Healthcare eStandards, Inc. (CHeS), the leading supply-chain
industry standards organization, urges healthcare providers and
suppliers to use the Global Locator Number (GLN) as the single
standard to identify legal entities, trading partners and
customer locations to support the requirements of electronic
commerce ...
• • click here for more information
about the GLN initiative.
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