About Z-Index
Z-Index maintains and updates the G-Standaard, the official Dutch drug database used by all healthcare stakeholders in the Netherlands. The G-Standaard contains comprehensive information on all products dispensed by or used in pharmacies, facilitating efficient and accurate data exchange across the healthcare system.
The Dutch Drug Database: G-Standaard
The G-Standaard provides detailed information on:
- Licensed medicines
- Unlicensed medicines (e.g. raw materials and compounded preparations)
- Vitamins and dietary supplements
- Homeopathic medicines
- Medical devices
Over 100,000 healthcare products are registered in the G-Standaard. Each product entry includes essential information such as pharmacovigilance data, pricing, logistics, and reimbursement policies of various health insurers.
Healthcare professionals use the G-Standaard in a variety of ways:
- Physicians consult the G-Standaard to find available medicines and prescribe accurate dosages.
- Pharmacists use it to check for potential drug interactions (pharmacovigilance) and verify insurance reimbursements. It also supports direct invoicing to insurers.
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Pharmacists, wholesalers, and manufacturers rely on the database to place orders and manage inventory.
Z-Index’s Role in the G-Standaard
Z-Index acts as a trusted intermediary, ensuring that the data in the G-Standaard is accurate, up to date, and accessible through software vendors. To maintain data quality, Z-Index works closely with manufacturers, wholesalers, scientific institutions, regulatory bodies, and the government, both as data providers and end users.
Pharmacotherapeutic information in the G-Standaard is supplied by the Medicines Information Centre (Geneesmiddel Informatie Centrum) of the Royal Dutch Pharmacists Association (KNMP).
G-Standaard Data Entry Portal for Manufacturers
The G-Standaard Data Entry Portal allows registered manufacturers to submit new healthcare products or update existing ones. Updated information is distributed via the G-Standaard’s monthly production cycle, ensuring it reaches all relevant prescribing, dispensing, and ordering systems in the Dutch healthcare market.
More details can be found in the Instruction Manual.
Z-Index adheres to a strict monthly production schedule to guarantee timely integration of updates. Software vendors use these updates to ensure healthcare IT systems - used by pharmacies, general practitioners, hospitals, and insurers - are always current. This process relies on all data providers, including over 700 manufacturers, to follow the production schedule closely.
Submit Product Information to the G-Standaard
Are you a manufacturer looking to make your healthcare products accessible to Dutch healthcare professionals through the G-Standaard?
The one-off registrations costs are € 1.187.
The annual costs depend on the number of products you have entered in the G-Standaard:
Number of products in the G-Standaard |
Annual costs |
|---|---|
| From 1 to 10 products. | € 164 |
| From 11 to 100 products. | € 253 |
| From 101 to 500 products. | € 413 |
| From 501 to 1.000 products. | € 570 |
| From 1.001 to 1.500 products. | € 732 |
| From 1.501 to 2.000 products. | € 891 |
| From 2.001 to 2.500 products. | € 1.050 |
| From 2.501 to 3.000 products. | € 1.210 |
| More than 3.000 products. | € 1.369 |
Please complete the Registration Form below after reading the General License Terms or contact Z-Index at info@z-index.nl.