To improve patient safety and supply chain efficiency, organizations and companies throughout the U.S. healthcare supply chain have announced their support to adopt GS1 Standards by the industry-accepted sunrise dates of 2010 for the GS1 Global Location Number (GLN) to standardize location identification and 2012 for the GS1 Global Trade Item Number® (GTIN®) to standardize product identification. Healthcare providers and suppliers should begin preparing for implementation of "2010 GLN Sunrise" and "2012 GTIN Sunrise" now.

The GS1 System of global supply chain standards has delivered proven results in many industries for over 35 years. Now healthcare providers are adopting GS1 Standards to achieve the same results. Click here to get started today.