global life sciences · Module 06

Data, Traceability, and Interoperability

A standard can define a common language without making two organizations operationally interoperable.

Pharmaceutical traceability creates unusually detailed product data, but collection and operational usefulness are not the same thing.

Four layers

  1. Identification distinguishes a product instance.
  2. Events record what happened to it.
  3. Regulation determines which evidence must exist and where it moves.
  4. Workflow turns that evidence into receiving, inventory, dispensing, and exception decisions.