Siemens Healthcare Diagnostics has published product data, including GS1 global trade item numbers (GTINs) for its US product line, in the GHX Health Connexion data pool.
GHX Health Connexion is certified by GS1's Global Data Synchronization Network (GDSN), which is focused solely on healthcare.
Authorised subscribers to the GDSN can now access product data standardised with GTINs for Siemens reagents and consumables that can be purchased via EDI in the US.
Siemens and GHX are also working to publish GTINs for additional Siemens product lines in Australia and Europe.
Healthcare suppliers are faced with 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 catalogue 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 product information to meet both sunrise dates for the use of global data standards and emerging regulatory initiatives such as the US Food and Drug Administration's requirement to assign unique device identifiers (UDIs) to products.
