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ECCnet Pharmaceutical Content Checklist

Through the support of the pharmacy community, GS1 Canada has successfully captured product data and images for over 10,000 pharmaceutical products to support Project Enhanced Data Integrity for Patient Safety, an initiative that is committed to advancing the position of zero tolerance for errors once data reaches patient care.

Ensure you complete these steps outlined in the checklist below:

  • Load and publish your product data
  • Request a Content Capture Service
  • Review and certify your product data

We invite you to review and leverage this checklist for all additional products you need to submit for content and data capture, ensuring you continue to work collaboratively with your trading partners.

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Project Enhanced Data Integrity for Patient Safety Checklist

Load and Publish Your Product Data

1. Access ProSYNC

  • Log into myGS1 using your login credentials.
  • If you are already registered for New Item Setup, you will select “ProSYNC” from My Tools on the myGS1 landing page to access the service.
  • If you are not already registered for New Item Setup, you will see an option to “Register for ProSYNC” on the myGS1 landing page.
  • If you use a Global Data Synchronization Network (GDSN) data pool or Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) to load product data, these options also support the loading and management of data in ECCnet Registry, via the ProSYNC tool.

2. Load Product Data

  • Follow the prompts within ProSYNC to load your product data.
  • For additional help with loading product data, refer to the Help Library accessible directly in ProSYNC.

3. Publish to Trading Partners

  • Ensure your product data is published to your trading partners so they can access your data.

Request a Content Capture Service

1. Request a Content Capture Service
New Process

  • Login to myGS1. From the left-hand tool bar, click on Request a Content Capture Service. If you do not see this option, please contact us.
  • Follow the prompts within the Content Capture Service Request tool to complete your request for pharmaceutical content capture.
  • Review these quick videos to walk you through the new process for submitting a Content Capture Service Request.

2. Arrange to send your products to McKesson’s facility

  • Ensure you follow directions within the Content Capture Service Request tool to confirm shipping address and hours as well as provide a Return Shipping Waybill for product return. Product images, weights, and dimensions will be captured by GS1 Canada staff on site.

Important note: Narcotics, controlled or targeted substances cannot be shipped to our facilities. Please email us at healthcare@gs1ca.org for next steps.

Review and Certify Your Product Data

1. Access Product Certification – Pharmaceutical Content

  • If you are already registered for ECCnet Pharmaceutical Content, you will select “Product Certification - Pharmaceutical Content” from My Tools on the myGS1 landing page to access the service.
  • If you are not already registered for ECCnet Pharmaceutical Content, click here to register. Registration must be completed by your company’s administrator, and you must already be registered for ProSYNC.
  • Set up your company’s user roles. Log into myGS1 and select ‘User Management’. User roles can only be assigned by your company’s administrator.
  • Click on the pencil icon to the left of the user’s email address and expand the Access Management menu to set both the ‘Reviewer’ and ‘Approver’ roles. Ideally, these roles should be assigned to different individuals.

Important note: your product content will only be available in Product Certification – Pharmaceutical Content once your content service request has been completed AND your product data is loaded and published in ProSYNC.

2. Review Content

  • Access Product Certification – Pharmaceutical Content as a "Reviewer” to review GTIN content for accuracy and completeness. Once completed, the product status will change to “Reviewed".

3. Certify Content

  • Access Product Certification – Pharmaceutical Content as an “Approver”, review GTIN content for accuracy and completeness. Once complete, the product status will change from “Reviewed” to “Certified”.

Important note: Uncertified Product data will NOT be available to trading partners.

Congratulations!

Now that you have completed all the required steps, your certified product content will now be available to your trading partners.

For more information about ECCnet New Item Setup (ProSYNC), access the Help Library within ECCnet New Item Setup (ProSYNC).

For more information about ECCnet Pharmaceutical Content (Product Certification – Pharmaceutical Content), visit Product Certification Help Library.