Celebrating 20 years of GS1 Healthcare: One scan at a time
Two decades ago, GS1 brought barcode technology into the world of healthcare—revolutionizing how medical equipment and pharmaceutical drugs are identified, tracked, and managed across the global supply chain. This initiative, gradually united the healthcare community around a shared mission: to make healthcare sector safer and more efficient for everyone, everywhere.
Ever since, each scan powered by GS1 standards, has done more than move a product—it has helped to enhance patient safety. From manufacturing to the point of care, that sound of ‘beep’ has become a symbol of trust, enabling smarter decisions, end-to-end traceability, and safer outcomes.
Join us in celebrating 20 years of progress, partnership, and the power of a barcode.
GS1 India works closely with the global healthcare community bringing together all stakeholders, namely, pharmaceutical and medical devices manufacturers, wholesalers and distributors, group purchasing organisations, hospitals, pharmacies, logistics providers, governmental and regulatory bodies and associations. We enable collaboration between all healthcare stakeholders to achieve patient safety and improved efficiency.
To enhance patient safety, Regulators are directing healthcare stakeholders to implement automatic data capture technologies, interoperable identification standards, standardised electronic product catalogues, track & trace and product recall systems. The use of GS1 standards, enables this through unambigous unique identification of supply chain elements and interoperable systems.
Benefits
Prevention of medical errors
Product authentication and counterfeit detection
Enhanced patient safety
Unique identification of drugs and devices
End-to-end supply chain tracking
Compliance with regulatory requirements
Achieve efficient, accurate, and targeted recalls
Healthcare Stakeholders
Our Work
Identify hospitals and medical day care centers along with their geo codes for faster processing of health insurance claims.
Pharmaceuticals & Medical Devices Bureau of India is using GS1 standards at its warehouse for automated receiving and distribution of medicine..
NITI Ayog used GS1 standards in its blockchain pilot project, aimed at ensuring authenticity of pharmaceutical drugs.
DGFT endorses the use of GS1 standards to establish a track & trace system for pharmaceuticals exported from the country.
Various State and organizational tenders require the use of GS1 barcodes on consignments to enable organisations achieve faster and efficient inwarding as well as dispatch operations.
Our Services
Ensure end-to-end supply chain visibility for counterfeit detection, product authentication and targeted recalls.
Explore
GS1 Digital Link enables you to direct your consumers to rich product information on the web, through a simple QR code scan.
Manage all your product information on a cloud-based platform, for easy sharing with supply chain stakeholders and consumers.
ExploreRegulatory Requirements
GS1 standards enable compliance with various domestic as well as international regulatory requirements. This includes traceability requirements issued by USFDA, EU FMD, NMVO, and BHRA-Anvisa, Ministry of Health in Nordic Countries, Ukraine, Egypt, Iran, and many others. On domestic front, DGFT accepts GS1 barcodes for pharma exports.
NIFH
National Industry Forum for Healthcare, a National platform that brings together all stakeholders in the Healthcare supply chain comprising of pharmaceutical companies, medical devices manufacturers, healthcare providers, online pharmacies with the objective of bringing in enhanced operational efficiencies in the supply chain thereby enhancing patient.
The forum is aimed at identifying common issues impacting the industry, and solve them through collaboration and global best practices.
Resources
Healthcare Videos
FAQs
Q1. What is GS1 Barcode in Healthcare Sectors?
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Q2. How can I access my GS1 Barcode healthcare account?
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Q3. How do I get GTINs for my products?
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Q4. Can I get GTINs from any other organisation in India?
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