HIBCC Press Releases

The Health Industry Business Communication Council (HIBCC) was founded in 1983 as a non-profit, industry sponsored standards development organization. We maintain global supplier and provider labeling standards for the healthcare industry, and are a leader in the development of other e-commerce applications.

Our standards and services are extended internationally via a worldwide network of HIBCC offices, and have been adopted globally by the largest suppliers of medical products. As a global health care standards agency, we’re setting safer and more efficient standards  throughout the world.

For press or media inquiries, please feel free to contact us.

Latest Press Releases

New HIBCC Web Utility Creates FDA Compliant UDIs
(May 17, 2013)
Download: download Open | Download
Summary: The Health Industry Business Communications Council (HIBCC) has released an on-line ‘UDI Generator Utility’ that creates Unique Device Identifier (UDI) formats soon to be required by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). It is freely available and can be accessed from HIBCC’s home page at www.hibcc.org.
Categories: hibcc-press-releases2013
DuWayne (Dewey) D. Schlittenhard Named 2013-2015 HIBCC Board Chair
(April 19, 2013)
Download: download Open | Download
Summary: PHOENIX, AZ (April 18, 2013) – DuWayne Schlittenhard, MBA, R. Ph, Vice president at St.
Alexius Medical Center has been elected Chair of the Board of Directors of the Health Industry
Business Communications Council (HIBCC). The announcement was made by HIBCC President
Robert Hankin in Phoenix, Arizona.
Categories: hibcc-press-releases2013
HIBCC Announces Technical Committee Meeting for June 2013
(April 1, 2013)
Download: download Open | Download
Categories: hibcc-press-releases2013
HIBCC Guideline: Understanding FDA’s Proposed UDI Requirement
(September 16, 2012)
Download: download Open | Download
Summary: September 2012. For many years the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and industry partners have been studying the benefits associated with automatic-identification technologies that have been deployed in both healthcare and non-healthcare industries.
Categories: hibcc-press-releases2012
ANSI Approves HIBC 5.0 Syntax Standard
(September 12, 2012)
Download: download Open | Download
Summary: February 2012. The Health Industry Bar Code (HIBC) Syntax Standard has been given final approval by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI). Also known as ANSI/HIBC 5.0, the standard was developed by the Health Industry Business Communications Council (HIBCC), the accredited global standards development organization that supports patient safety by creating industry-supported non-proprietary standards for healthcare product and facility identification.
Categories: hibcc-press-releases2012, Latest News
Patrick DeGrace Named 2011 HIBCC Board Chair
(September 12, 2012)
Download: download Open | Download
Summary: April 2011. Patrick DeGrace, Director of Customer Care at Hospira Worldwide, Inc. has been elected Chair of the Board of Directors of the Health Industry Business Communications Council (HIBCC).
Categories: hibcc-press-releases2011
HIBC RFID Receives Final ANSI Approval
(September 12, 2012)
Download: download Open | Download
Summary: July 2010. ANSI Approves HIBCC Standard for Patient Identification and Event Tracking.
Categories: hibcc-press-releases2010
Times Expose of Medical Device ID Error
(September 12, 2012)
Download: download Open | Download
Summary: August 2010. New York Times Exposé of Medical Device ID Errors that Lead to Patient Deaths Could Spur FDA Action to Require HIBCC Labeling.
Categories: hibcc-press-releases2010
Greg Stivers Named 2009 HIBCC Board Chair
(September 12, 2012)
Download: download Open | Download
Summary: February 2009. Greg Stivers, Vice President of Customer Technology for McKesson Medical-Surgical in Richmond, Virginia, has been elected Chair of the Board of Directors of the Health Industry Business Communications Council (HIBCC).
Categories: hibcc-press-releases2009

Check Our Archives

Can’t find what you’re looking for?  We have a host of archived information that you can view here.