GS1, HIBCC and ICCBBA Standards

anita-greiter

I am hoping some of you may have some experience with GS1, HIBCC and ICCBBA Standards.  

To meet the stage 3 requirements we must use technology certified to the 2015 edition. The criteria for 2015 include a common clinical data set used in health information exchange measure that has the ability to express the data which includes the unique device identifier for patients implantable device. There are three issuing agencies GS1, HIBCC and ICCBBA and all have a different standard.  We have an interface from Lawson to Surginet for our item master files and now need to include this unique device identifier.  In Lawson there are multiple fields but none are universal to accommodate the various standards. 

 

GS1 - Data Delimiter (01)  / Numeric data type / Readable barcode field size - 16  / Item database UPN field Size - 14

HIBCC - Data Delimiter + / Alphanumeric data type / Readable barcode field size - 7 to 24  / Item database UPN field Size - 6 to 23

ICCBBA - Data Delimiter =/ / Alphanumeric data type / Readable barcode field size - 18  / Item database UPN field Size - 16

 

The GS1 standards is not an issue since there is a table in Lawson to meet this requirement. The HIBCC is an issue for us because of the number of characters. There are now recent regulation with a timeline. I'm curious what other organizations are doing to stay compliant.

Thank you

unknown

We do not store the barcodes in Lawson here, Epic adds them. When we were in discussions about them the idea was: GS1 in GS1 fields (as you said, Lawson has a spot), HIBCC was going to go in UPN2 (IC11.4) with the UPN number as the UPN number and the barcode in the Description field.



It was dropped as SCM still had no way to provide the barcode information and if they needed to manually enter them, they preferred to do so in Epic where they already new the system.



Good Luck!