The Center for Innovation in Healthcare Logistics (CIHL) at the University of Arkansas has been engaged with a number of industry partners and provider sites over the past two years in a Data Standards implementation project to understand the costs, barriers and opportunities providers can expect in GS1 standards adoption.
Levels, Readiness and Impacts Model (LRIM) is designed to provide a user-friendly (Excel-based) spreadsheet tool helping providers meet their need to quantify the investments and benefits they can expect from GS1 adoption choices. LRIM does not attempt to estimate dollar costs and benefits. Instead, the model aims to provide quantitative foundations on which those economic assessments can be constructed for particular provider settings.
At this time, LRIM addresses only GS1 implications for supply chain operations in commodity medsurg products. That version is now being released publically at no cost to all interested users. In the near future the CIHL team plans to enhance LRIM or create sibling versions to address other categories of products including Pharmaceuticals, Implantable Devices, and Surgical Materials.
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