Abstract: The present invention is directed at a method of capturing medical information. Capturing medical information concerning patients is an important task for medical practitioners because the information generally allows the practitioners to track their patient's medical history. However, depending on individuals to manually record medical information such as replacement part codes, may result in human error. In order to reduce the chance of human error, a PDA scanner is used to scan and store the medical information into a PDA. The scanned information may then be immediately entered into a medical information record corresponding to the patient undergoing surgery.