JP2001306687A - Doctor's fee paying and prescribed medicine distributing method - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a doctor's fee and prescribed medicine distributing method which eliminates a wait for payment and a wait for medicine reception at a hospital. SOLUTION: A network is structured which comprises a patient terminal 110 that a patient having had a clinical consultation uses, a hospital terminal 120 that a hospital-relative person uses in a hospital, a credit company terminal 130 that a credit company settling a doctor's fee uses, a pharmacy terminal 140 that a pharmacy prescribing medicine uses, and a distribution center terminal 150 that a distribution center distributing the prescribed medicine uses. The Internet 100 is usable as the network and a patient is able to pay a doctor's fee, money for medicine, etc., through the credit company. Further, the medicine prescribed at the hospital can be distributed to the patient's house through the distribution company.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a method for paying a consultation fee and delivering a prescription drug, and more particularly to a method for paying a consultation fee and delivering a prescription drug without waiting for a turnaround in a hospital or waiting for a drug to be received.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art When a doctor pays a medical examination fee and receives a medicine, a patient who has completed a medical examination waits for a turn at an accounting place in the hospital and pays the medical examination fee directly at the hospital. Drugs are also picked up at hospital pharmacies.

[0003]

However, the conventional method of paying the consultation fee and receiving the medicine has the following problems.

[0004] That is, payment and receipt can only be made at an accounting place and a pharmacy in a hospital, and a patient must wait for a long time in the hospital or pharmacy for a long time.

Accordingly, an object of the present invention is to provide a method for paying a medical examination fee and dispensing a prescription drug without waiting for a turnaround in accounting and receiving a drug in a hospital in order to solve the above problems.

[0006]

In order to achieve the above object, the present invention provides a method for paying a consultation fee and delivering a prescription drug in a hospital, wherein the method comprises the steps of: Terminal used by the hospital staff, hospital terminals used by hospital personnel in the hospital, credit company terminals used by credit companies that settle consultation fees, pharmacy terminals used by pharmacies that prescribe prescription drugs, Build a network consisting of delivery center terminals used by delivery centers that deliver medicines,
A method for paying a consultation fee and delivering a prescribed drug, which eliminates waiting for a drug to be received.

The network is preferably the Internet.

[0008] Further, the patient transmits the patient's personal ID card information to the hospital terminal using the patient terminal.
It is preferable to extract the patient's personal information from the personal ID card information using the hospital terminal and transmit it to the patient terminal.

Further, after confirming the contents of the patient's personal information, the patient reads a credit card into the patient terminal for payment of the consultation fee, and instructs the patient terminal to pay the consultation fee, charge the consultation fee, and identify the hospital. It is preferable to transmit information and credit card information to a credit company terminal.

[0010] Also, the patient terminal transmits patient identification information and prescription information to the pharmacy terminal from the hospital terminal, prescribes medicine for each individual at the pharmacy, and transmits delivery instruction information from the pharmacy terminal to the delivery center terminal. Is preferred.

Further, it is preferable that the delivery center goes to the pharmacy for receiving the prescription medicine according to the delivery instruction information and delivers the prescription medicine delivered from the pharmacy to the patient's home.

[0012] Further, there are a plurality of pharmacies in which pharmacy terminals are installed, and after the patient displays the patient's personal information on the screen at the patient terminal, the patient terminal screen specifies the pharmacy and the method of receiving the prescription. Preferably it is possible.

As described above, in the present invention, in particular, the payment of a medical examination fee at a hospital is performed through a network at a dedicated patient terminal in the hospital, and the medicine prescribed at the hospital is transferred from a pharmacy via a delivery company. And deliver it to the patient's home, and provide a business method of consultation fee payment and prescription drug delivery.

[0014]

Next, an embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 is a schematic diagram showing an embodiment of a method for paying a consultation fee and delivering a prescription drug according to the present invention. In this method, the patient uses the patient terminal 110 to enter a hospital-specific personal ID.
Read the card into the patient terminal 110 and enter the patient's personal ID
The card information is transmitted to the hospital terminal 120. Hospital terminal 12
No. 0 receives the transmitted personal ID card information, extracts the patient's personal information, and transmits it to the patient terminal 110. The patient terminal 110 receives the transmitted patient personal information, and the patient:
The contents of the patient personal information displayed on the patient terminal 110 are confirmed. After confirming the contents, the patient reads the credit card into the patient terminal to pay the consultation fee, and inputs the consultation fee payment instruction, the consultation fee billing amount, the hospital identification information, the credit card information from the patient terminal 110 to the credit company terminal 1.
30. The credit company terminal 130 receives the consultation fee payment instruction, the consultation fee billed amount, the hospital identification information, and the credit card information transmitted from the patient terminal 110 and performs settlement.

Next, the hospital terminal 120 stores the patient identification information,
The prescription information is transmitted to the pharmacy terminal 140. The pharmacy terminal 140 receives the patient identification information and the prescription information transmitted from the hospital terminal 120, prescribes a medicine for each individual at the pharmacy, and transmits the delivery instruction information to the delivery center terminal 150. Then, the delivery center terminal 150 receives the delivery instruction information, goes to the pharmacy to receive the medicine according to the instruction, and presents the delivery instruction information to the pharmacy. The pharmacy collates the presented delivery instruction information and delivers the prescription drug for the patient to the delivery company. Finally, the delivery company delivers the received individual prescription to the patient's home.

[0017]

Next, an embodiment of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the drawings.

First, the configuration of the first embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to FIG. The first embodiment of the consultation fee payment and prescription drug delivery method according to the present invention includes a plurality of patient terminals 110 installed in a hospital, a hospital terminal 120 installed in a hospital, a credit company terminal 130, a pharmacy, Terminal 1
40, a distribution center terminal 150, and a network such as the Internet 100 connecting them. Each terminal shown in FIG. 1 is an information processing terminal.

A plurality of patient terminals 110 are installed in the hospital and used by a patient who has undergone medical examination. The patient uses a hospital-specific personal ID card issued by the hospital for the patient terminal 110.
, The patient's personal information transmitted from the hospital terminal 120 is displayed on the screen, and the patient pays a consultation fee for paying the consultation fee by credit card.
It has a function of transmitting the amount of consultation fee, hospital identification information, and credit card information to the credit company terminal 130.

The hospital terminal 120 is a terminal used by hospital personnel, and manages and retains information on consultation fees and prescription drugs for medical examinations for each patient, and has a function of transmitting the information to the patient terminal 110. Further, it has a function of transmitting patient identification information and prescription information for the patient to the pharmacy terminal 140.

The credit company terminal 130 is the patient terminal 1
The consultation fee payment instruction, the consultation fee billing amount sent from 10,
It has a function of receiving hospital identification information and credit card information, and the consultation fee is settled with a credit card.

The pharmacy terminal 140 is a terminal installed in a pharmacy near the hospital. The pharmacy terminal 140 receives the patient identification information and the prescription information transmitted from the hospital terminal 120, and further instructs the delivery center terminal 150 to deliver the prescribed medicine. It has a function of transmitting information.

The delivery center terminal 150 is installed at the delivery center and has a function of receiving delivery instruction information from a pharmacy. The delivery center goes to the source pharmacy based on the delivery instruction information, presents the delivery instruction, receives the medicine from the pharmacy, and delivers the medicine to the designated patient's home.

Next, the operation of the first embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to FIGS. FIG. 2 is a sequence diagram showing the operation of the first embodiment of the consultation fee payment and prescription drug delivery method of the present invention, FIG. 3 is a schematic diagram showing an example of a patient personal information screen, and FIG. FIG. 7 is a schematic diagram showing an example of a consultation fee payment screen.

Referring to FIG. 2, after the examination of the patient is completed, the patient reads the hospital-specific personal ID card issued by the hospital into the patient terminal 110 (step S20).
0). The patient terminal 110 transmits the read personal ID card information to the hospital terminal 120 (Step S201).
The hospital terminal 120 receives the personal ID card information transmitted from the patient terminal 110 (step S202), extracts personal information of the patient from the ID card information, and
0 (step S203). And the patient terminal 110 which received the patient personal information (step S204)
Display individual patient information on the screen (step S20)
5). This display includes, for example, the patient's name, address, telephone number, consultation fee, presence / absence of medicine, etc., as shown in FIG. The patient confirms the consultation fee and the presence or absence of the medicine by this display (step S206).

Next, the patient reads the credit card into the patient terminal 110 to pay the consultation fee (step S207). The reading of the credit card is performed by, for example, displaying the consultation fee payment screen shown in FIG. 4 from the consultation fee payment button 300 shown in FIG. 3, pressing the credit card read button 400 in FIG. 4, and then reading the credit card. . Then, the patient transmits the consultation fee payment instruction, the consultation fee billing amount, the hospital identification information, and the credit card information to the credit company terminal 130 using the transmission button 410 in FIG. 4 at the patient terminal 110 (step S208).
The credit company terminal 130 receives the consultation fee payment instruction, the consultation fee billed amount, the hospital identification information, and the credit card information transmitted from the patient terminal 110 (step S209).
Then, the payment of the consultation fee is settled (step S210).

Next, the hospital terminal 120 transmits the patient identification information and the prescription information to the pharmacy terminal 140 for delivering the prescription medicine to the patient (step S211). The pharmacy terminal 140 receives the transmitted patient identification information and prescription information (step S
212), the pharmacy prescribes the medicine for the patient from the prescription information (step S213). Then, the medicine delivery instruction information is transmitted from the pharmacy terminal 140 to the delivery center terminal 150 (step S214). Next, the delivery center terminal 150
Receives the delivery instruction information (step S215). The delivery center goes to the pharmacy according to the delivery instruction and presents the delivery instruction information to the pharmacy (step S216). And
The pharmacy collates the delivery instruction information presented from the delivery center, and delivers the medicine for the patient to the delivery center (step S217). Finally, the delivery center delivers the received medicine for the patient to the patient's home (step S218).

Next, the configuration of a second embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to FIG.

FIG. 5 is a block diagram showing the configuration of the second embodiment of the present invention. The second embodiment of the consultation fee payment and prescription drug delivery method according to the present invention includes a plurality of patient terminals 510 installed in a hospital and a hospital terminal 520 installed in a hospital.
, A credit company terminal 530 and a distribution center terminal 5
50 and a network such as the Internet 500 connecting them, is similar to the first embodiment described above, except that the pharmacy terminal 540 (or 541, 541) is used.
There are a plurality of pharmacies where 542) is installed, and after the patient who has completed the examination displays the patient's personal information on the screen at the patient terminal 510, the designation of the pharmacy and the method of receiving the prescription are designated on the terminal screen. It differs from the first embodiment in that it is possible. Therefore, it is possible to further display a screen for specifying the pharmacy and the receiving method on the display of the patient's personal information on the patient terminal 510. On the screen for specifying the pharmacy and the receiving method of the prescription medicine, the pharmacy in the hospital, the nearest pharmacy in the hospital, A pharmacy closest to the home can be specified, and a pharmacy closest to the hospital or home can be searched at the patient terminal 510, and a function of directly receiving a delivery method or selecting delivery is provided.

Next, the operation of the second embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to FIGS. FIG. 6 is a sequence diagram showing the operation of the second embodiment of the present invention.
FIG. 8 is a schematic diagram showing a patient personal information screen, and FIG. 8 is a schematic diagram showing a pharmacy / prescription medicine receiving method designation screen.

First, referring to FIG.
The hospital-specific personal ID card is read into the
0 after transmitting the personal ID card information to the credit company terminal 530 receiving the consultation fee payment instruction from the patient terminal 510 and settling the billed consultation fee (step S
Steps S600 to S610) are the same as in the first embodiment.

Next, the pharmacy shown in FIG.
When the prescription medicine receiving method designation button 700 is pressed, the patient terminal 510 displays a pharmacy / prescription medicine receiving method designation screen as shown in FIG. 8 (step S61).
1).

Next, the patient designates one of the pharmacy in the hospital, the pharmacy nearest to the hospital, and the pharmacy nearest to the home in FIG. 8 by a check box, and further selects either the direct receiving or delivery method of receiving the prescription drug. Then, a pharmacy / prescription medicine receiving method is designated (step S612). When the pharmacy closest to the hospital and the pharmacy closest to the home are specified, the pharmacy is searched and specified by the search buttons 800 and 810 in FIG. Then, when the enter button 820 is pressed, the hospital terminal 520 is pressed.
The pharmacy identification information and the prescription medicine receiving method information are transmitted to (step S613).

The hospital terminal 520 receives the pharmacy identification information and the prescription medicine receiving method information transmitted from the patient terminal 510 (step S614), and sends the patient identification information to the pharmacy terminal 540 (or 541, 542) designated by the patient. , Prescription information, and receiving method information are transmitted (step S6).
15).

The pharmacy terminal 540 (or 541, 542)
Receives the patient identification information, the prescription information, and the receiving method information transmitted from the hospital terminal 520 (step S61).
6). The received pharmacy terminal 540 (or 541, 54)
At the pharmacy in 2), the patient's medicine is prescribed based on the prescription information (step S617). Next, at the pharmacy, if the method of receiving directly by the patient is specified according to the receiving method, store the prescription until the patient comes to receive it, and when the patient comes to receive it, deliver the prescription to the patient (Step S618) The process ends.

After the patient has specified delivery,
The operation of the delivery center delivering the prescription drug to the patient's home is the same as in the first embodiment.

As described above, in the second embodiment of the present invention, the medicine can be directly received at the pharmacy besides the delivery.
In addition, since there are a plurality of pharmacies to receive, there is an advantage that selection can be made according to the convenience of the patient.

[0038]

As described above, according to the method for paying the consultation fee and delivering the prescription drug of the present invention, the patient can settle the consultation fee by using the credit card at the patient terminal. This has the effect of eliminating the need to wait for a turnaround in accounting.

In addition, the patient can check the presence or absence of the medicine at the patient terminal. If the medicine is present, the delivery center delivers the medicine from the pharmacy closest to the hospital or the pharmacy closest to the home to the home. This has the effect of eliminating the need for waiting.

In addition to the delivery, the drug can be directly received at the pharmacy, and when there are a plurality of pharmacies to receive, there is an effect that the selection can be made according to the convenience of the patient.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a configuration of an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a sequence diagram showing an operation of the first exemplary embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 3 is a schematic diagram showing an example of a patient personal information screen according to the first embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 4 is a schematic diagram showing an example of a consultation fee payment screen according to the first embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 5 is a block diagram showing a configuration of a second exemplary embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 6 is a sequence diagram showing an operation of the second exemplary embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 7 is a schematic diagram showing an example of a patient personal information screen according to the second embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 8 is a schematic diagram showing an example of a designation screen for a pharmacy / prescription medicine receiving method according to the second embodiment of the present invention.

[Explanation of symbols]

 100,500 Internet 110,510 Patient terminal 120,520 Hospital terminal 130,530 Credit company terminal 140,540,541,542 Pharmacy terminal 150,550 Delivery center terminal 300 Consultation fee payment button 400 Credit card reading button 410 Transmission button 700 Pharmacy・ Prescription medicine receiving method designation button 800,810 Search button 820 Enter button

Claims (7)

[Claims] 1. A method of paying a medical examination fee and delivering a prescription medicine at a hospital, comprising: a patient terminal used by a patient who has undergone medical treatment; a hospital terminal used by a hospital-related person in the hospital; A network consisting of a credit company terminal used by a credit company that performs prescription drugs, a pharmacy terminal used by a pharmacy that prescribes the prescription drug, and a distribution center terminal used by a distribution center that delivers the prescription drug. A method for paying consultation fees and delivering prescription drugs, which eliminates the need to wait for a turnaround in accounting and medicine. 2. The method according to claim 1, wherein the network is the Internet. 3. The patient transmits personal ID card information of the patient to the hospital terminal using the patient terminal, and the hospital uses the hospital terminal to transmit the patient ID card information from the personal ID card information. 3. The method according to claim 1, wherein personal information is extracted and transmitted to the patient terminal. 4. The patient, after confirming the contents of the patient's personal information, reads a credit card into the patient terminal in order to pay a consultation fee, and issues a consultation fee payment instruction and a consultation fee charge from the patient terminal. 4. The method according to claim 3, further comprising transmitting the hospital identification information and the credit card information to a credit company terminal. 5. The hospital terminal transmits patient identification information and prescription information of the patient to the pharmacy terminal, prescribes medicine for each individual at the pharmacy, and transmits the medicine to the delivery center terminal from the pharmacy terminal. The consultation fee and prescription drug delivery method according to any one of claims 1 to 4, wherein the delivery instruction information is transmitted. 6. The delivery center according to claim 5, wherein the delivery center goes to the pharmacy to receive a prescription drug according to the delivery instruction information and delivers the prescription drug delivered from the pharmacy to the patient's home. The consultation fee and prescription drug delivery method described. 7. A plurality of pharmacies in which the pharmacy terminals are installed. After the patient displays patient personal information on the screen of the patient terminal, designation of a pharmacy and prescription of prescription drugs are performed on the screen of the patient terminal. 7. The method according to claim 1, wherein a receiving method can be specified.