Patent ID: 8042738

Claim:
A method of tracking medical products in which a marked packaged medical product is identified by a supplier of said product by a first reference stored in a first product file, the medical product being stored at a client facility for subsequent use for a patient identified in a second patient file, the method comprising the steps of: detecting the first reference of the medical product automatically and storing said first reference in a third client file, detecting removal of the product from stock automatically, inserting the first reference of the removed medical product in the second patient file corresponding to a patient for which the medical product is used or to be used, constructing a fourth file comprising partial references coming from the second patient file, said fourth file comprising the first reference of the medical product and expurgated patient data which includes a patient identifier but protects the medical confidentiality of the patient, and transmitting the fourth file automatically or semi-automatically to the supplier of the product.