Systems, devices, and methods for bodily fluid sample transport

A method comprising:

• collecting a bodily fluid sample on a surface of a subject, wherein the collected sample is stored in one or more sample vessels each having an information storage unit on a bottom surface of each of the sample vessels;
• providing a transport container to house at least two or more sample vessels, wherein the vessels are arranged in a two-dimensional array configuration in the transport container and wherein the transport container further comprises a tray sized to fit inside the transport container and hold the sample vessels therein in the two-dimensional array configuration;
• arranging to have the sample vessels shipped in the transport container from a first location to a second location,
• wherein each of the sample vessels arrives at the second location holding a majority of its bodily fluid sample in a non-wicked, non-matrixed form that is removable from the sample vessels in liquid form and wherein the amount of sample in each of the sample vessels does not exceed about 2 ml;
• removing the tray from the transport container;
• and
• scanning information storage units on substantially all of the sample vessels, wherein the scanning occurs while the sample vessels remain in the tray in the two-dimensional array configuration at the second location;
• wherein the sample vessels held in slots in the tray, wherein said slots have open bottoms that allow said information storage units to be scanned from below after the tray is removed from the transport container.