Using GS1 standards to trace surgical and dental instruments
Keeping track of many surgical instruments by visual inspection presented problems from a risk management and workload perspective.
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There are around 40,000 surgical instruments at Tokyo Medical and Dental University Hospital. Keeping track of these by visual inspection presented problems from a risk management and workload perspective.
The hospital has acquired its own GS1 Company Prefix and directly marked a GS1 DataMatrix encoding GS1 Global Individual Asset Identifier (GIAI) on all 40,000 surgical instruments, including dental equipment such as handpieces. This has made it possible to track and trace items.
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