Abstract: A system for tracking medical products administered to individuals includes a container having a medical product therein and a communications device, such as a microchip, attached to the container that includes product data identifying the medical product. The container is provided to a medical provider, who uploads the product data from the communications device into a tracking file on the provider's computer. The medical product is administered to an individual, and individual data related to the individual, such as demographic data and administration date, are included in the tracking file. The tracking file is transmitted to a remote host computer that adds the tracking file to a medical product database. Preferably, the data transmitted to the host computer excludes personal information capable of identifying the individual patient, thereby providing a method for tracking medical products delivered to individuals, while maintaining anonymity of the individuals.

Abstract: An immunization-tracking method utilizes machine-readable devices such as bar code stickers 103A containing immunization product data to immunization product packaging 105A. An immunization provider 101A uploads the immunization product data from a reader 115A to a provider computer 117A. Individual identification data, date of immunization, and dose are entered at the time of immunization to provide an immunization tracking file in computer 117A. Immunization provider computers 117A, 117B and 117C are connected to an immunization-tracking network for processing by a network host computer by an immunization-tracking authority 102.