LM-Dental moving to GS1 standards for dental product traceability with EPC/RFID

Drivers for these efforts include the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Unique Device Identification (UDI) regulation.

Since 2015, LM-Dental has applied EPC-enabled RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) technology and GS1 identifiers to its dental hand instruments. LM-Dental’s customers (e.g., hospitals, universities and dental clinics) can now partner with them to track dental instruments with an automated traceability system—the LM-Dental Tracking System™ (DTS), using GS1 standards. Instruments are tracked from the time they are dispensed through to utilisation, processing, sterilisation and return to storage.

The Universtity of Copenhagen’s School of Oral Health Care is one such hospital that has leveraged LM-Dental’s use of GS1 standards to make continuous improvements in its daily operations and long-term planning for increased patient safety. With GS1 standards, the school’s staff has greater control over the infection control status and stock levels of all instruments, reducing inventory costs by approximately 10 percent.