Once an appropriate inlay has been selected, the manufacturer can be assured that the hardware will read the inlay when applied to the product, but read what? UnitVisID is much more than the barcodes on today's unit-of-use medications — it doesn’t simply identify what a product is, it provides a history of each single use medication that captures every location, handling event, or status change allowing for the tracking of data like beyond use expiration, medication compounding history, and recalls. Additionally, the cloud based UnitVisID Registry makes tracking your medications easy from the moment it leaves your manufacturing floor until patient consumption. Without the UnitVisID Alliance Registry, a manufacturer would need to implement a direct connection to thousands of nodes of dozens of different types for this information to be propagated to every system that needs to consume it. The UnitVisID Alliance's approach allows for one registration event by the manufacturer enabling an unlimited number of exchanges of data throughout the medication's entire lifecycle.