What is traceability:
Traceability in healthcare enables you to see the movement of prescription drugs or medical devices across the supply chain. You can trace backwards to identify the history of the transfers and locations of a product, from the point of manufacture onwards. And you can track forwards to see the intended route of the product towards the point of care.
Adoption and implementation of GS1 traceability standards
The Global Traceability Standard for Healthcare (GTSH), a process standard, provides a foundational framework which describes the traceability process and defines the minimum requirements for all stakeholders, independent from technologies, organization size or operational sophistication.
Standards
Related information
Healthcare supply chain integrity
EPCIS is a GS1 standard which enables trading partners to share information about the movements and whereabouts of products and assets through the supply chain based on four types of events:
What
Products are impacted?
When
Did this time-stamped event occur?
Where
Was the product, where is it now?
Why
Was this observed, which process step?