Public & Healthcare
16. september 2021View transcript
What if we all spoke the same language in clinical trials? As a professional involved in clinical trials, whether you are a sponsor or manufacturer, a solution provider, a logistics partner or a trial site rolling out a variety of clinical trials, Everyone strives to optimise the efficiency of their processes, to guard the accuracy of the trials, to secure the safety of all subjects enrolled, and contribute to faster access to new medical products. For that reason, everyone keeps optimising their systems and formats to exchange information with partners throughout the supply chain all over the world. But while everyone is improving their own systems and formats for electronic data exchange, what should be a stable and consistent approach becomes a fragmented chain. Meaning data interchange requires translating, interpreting, manually processing, and translating back. A complex process of manual checks and potential errors resulting from incomplete or inaccurate information. Therefore, organisations involved in clinical trials have worked together to develop and adopt a new standard for electronic data interchange. One global format for all electronic messages across the supply chain. One format for inventory release files. Shipment requests. Kit status change reports. And all other electronic communication regarding the supply of investigational products and kits. By all of us, using the industry developed standard, we can exchange electronic information and collaborate in a more efficient way. The implementation of the new EDI standard would allow us to be more accurate in our orders and receptions and to make the work process more secure. It's very important for all of the clinical supplies from different companies to use the same standard. So that the hospitals and clinics that conduct clinical trials for multiple sponsors can use one scanner, one system to manage the transaction. Use of the standard allows straightforward interchange of information with partners across the supply chain and across the globe. Together, we can contribute to clinical trials being more efficient, more accurate, and safer by adopting the GS1 standard for electronic data interchange in clinical trials. Join industry leaders in implementing this standard. Visit www.gs1.org slash clinical trials
