Identification of a pharmaceutical file

A method of identifying a pharmaceutical record of a patient, of extracting data on the health insurance card (20) of a patient by means of a software stored in a computer terminal (10) of a pharmaceutical fireplace, to send these data to a central server (14) via a transmission network such as the Internet for example, to create a pharmaceutical file identifier from the extracted data and to save it in a first database (16) of the server (14), generating in the server a unique identifier of the patient and the record in the first database, and storing in a second database (18) a record pharmaceutical associated with the patient identifier and indicating drugs and products provided to the patient.