Abstract: In the practice of the present invention, a method and system for notifying a patient of a medical office about a pharmaceutical event based upon a pharmaceutical sample associated with the patient and corresponding to received event data, said patient selected from a list of patients retrievably stored within a database, a message being generated by the computer in response to said pharmaceutical event and transmitted to the patient. In addition, the present invention allows the medical office to monitor drug sample inventory and record dispensed drug samples and newly received drug samples. Optionally, the system may selectively transmit a portion of the medical office database to a pharmaceutical company for monitoring the inventory, dispensing and utilization of selected drug samples at plural medical offices.