Abstract: A positive identification device particularly for establishing correctly a correlation between a hospital product or patient to be correlated and at least one hospital product or patient that is correlated to the hospital product or patient to be correlated, comprising a first memory, which can be affixed to the hospital product or patient to be correlated and store a predefined unique identification code for the hospital product or patient to be correlated, and a second memory, which can be affixed respectively to the correlated hospital product or patient, the device further comprising elements for remote transfer of data, adapted to download by remote transmission the content of the first memory into the second memory.