KR101760645B1 - Cart for managing medicine and method for managing medicine using the cart - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention relates to a medicine cart for preventing a drug taken out of a drug storage room from being mistaken or mistakenly transmitted as another drug, thereby enabling accurate drug delivery to a patient, and a drug management method using the drug cart.
According to the present invention, there is provided a drug management method for withdrawing necessary medicines from a medicament storage room for storing medicines and delivering the medicines to the patients, comprising the steps of sorting drug information of prescription data in which drug information to be withdrawn is recorded, ; A withdrawing step of withdrawing the medicines from the medicament repository on the basis of sorted medicament standards; An injecting step of injecting the drawn medicine into a medicine cart having a plurality of compartments; And a medicine cart for performing the method.

Description

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention [0001] The present invention relates to a medicament cart, and a medicament management method using the medicament cart.

The present invention relates to a drug cart and a drug management method using the drug cart. More particularly, the present invention relates to a drug cart, and more particularly, And a method of managing medicines using the medicament cart.

In large hospitals, there are many kinds of medicines to be administered by each patient, and new medicines appear every year as the pharmacy develops, and the types of medicines that pharmacists need to deal with are gradually increasing. As a result, management of medicines becomes increasingly complicated, and it is difficult to manage them properly in a manual manner, and an automated inventory management system is gradually introduced.

In the manufacturing medicine combining tablets and tablets, an integrated manufacturing apparatus that automatically manufactures doses according to prescription contents has been developed and utilized. On the other hand, among the drugs supplied to the patient, it is difficult to automate is a packaging drug having an uneven packaging size. Packing agents generally have a contour surrounded by a rectangular parallelepiped paper wrapping paper, or have a shape of a water bottle filled with a liquid medicine, and rarely have various shapes depending on a packaging method such as having a bag shape containing liquid or the like.

Such packaging medicines do not have a uniform size, so there is a technical difficulty in processing with an automated apparatus. In the conventional automatic dispenser, it is expensive to use automatic robots for recognition, holding, and transportation of packaging medicines .

Therefore, a semi-automated checkout system has been proposed in view of the ease of inventory identification and checkout, while reducing manufacturing costs. U.S. Patent No. 4,643,495 (Mechanical Storage Cabinet with Container Conveyor) discloses a technique in which a chain that rotates infinitely by a driving motor is installed on both sides and a plurality of shelves facing each other inside the chain are installed to intensively utilize a stacking space Is introduced. At this time, the bottom of the shelf is always rotated in the gravity direction by the hinge structure coupled to the chain, so that the medicine contained in the shelf is not dropped. Such a chain and shelf support structure is modified in U.S. Patent No. 4,877,121 (Vertical excursion accommodation apparatus) so that the shelf is stably fixed to the chain by the support arm and is moved along an elongated elliptical trajectory up and down.

In addition, U.S. Patent No. 5,438,523 (Apparatus for storing and delivering sale units) discloses a configuration in which a plurality of beans, which is a box for sorting and storing goods in a shelf, is provided, and US Patent No. 6,814,255 ), A management program for storing and withdrawing medicine is disclosed.

Although a lot of studies have been conducted on a drug management system that allows a drug to be withdrawn when necessary while keeping a large number of drugs, the process of delivering the drug to the patient in need is manually performed There is a risk of accidental miscarriage, which can be miscommunicated with other medicines in the process of delivering the correctly drawn out medication to the patient.

Therefore, it is required to construct a system that allows the medicine taken out from the drug management system to be accurately delivered to the patient.

In order to solve such conventional problems, in the present invention, instead of performing drug withdrawal according to a prescription for each patient, the drug is extracted for each drug and classified by a drug cart having a plurality of storage spaces, To prevent a mistaken or miscommunicated drug from being misdirected to a patient and to ensure that a correct drug can be delivered to a patient reliably, and a method for managing a drug using the drug cart.

According to an aspect of the present invention, there is provided a drug management method for withdrawing necessary drugs from a drug storage room storing medicines and delivering the medicines to a patient, comprising the steps of: storing drug information of prescription data in which drug information to be withdrawn is recorded, And a patient-by-patient basis; A withdrawing step of withdrawing the medicines from the medicament repository on the basis of sorted medicament standards; An injecting step of injecting the drawn medicine into a medicine cart having a plurality of compartments; The method comprising the steps of:

Preferably, the medicine container and the medicine cart can exchange information with each other by a wired or wireless communication method.

The drug information sorted on the basis of the drug is transmitted to any one of a printer, a PDA, and a built-in PC, and the user can confirm the drug information through the output of the printer, the display window of the PDA, and the display window of the embedded PC.

Barcode information is recorded in the output of the printer, and the user preferably attaches the output to a storage compartment of the medicine cart.

The step of inputting includes the step of inputting the information of the extracted medicine to the medicine cart, the step of displaying the storage compartment to which the medicine is to be inserted, and the step of inputting the medicine into the storage compartment .

If the number of medicines to be injected into one compartment is two or more for the same medicament, information of the extracted medicines is input to the medicament cart, the medicines to which the medicines are to be injected are displayed, It is preferable that the step of injecting the drug is carried out by the number of times the drug is injected.

It is preferable to repeat the withdrawing step and the injecting step for another medicine when the input of the medicine for all the patients requiring the withdrawn medicine is completed.

The method according to any one of claims 1 to 5, wherein, when the withdrawing step and the injecting step are completed, for each of the withdrawn medicines, in order to check whether the medicines put in the medicines cart are correctly inserted according to the medicines- It is preferable to check the medicine put in the storage compartment.

According to another aspect of the present invention, there is provided a drug cart for withdrawing necessary medicines from a medicament storage room for storing medicines and delivering the medicines to a patient, the medicines being managed to be delivered to a patient by the medicament management method of claim 1, The medicine cart includes a plurality of compartments that can be accommodated.

The medicine cart may further include a wired or wireless communication device for exchanging information with the medicine storage.

Preferably, the medicine cart further includes a display device capable of displaying information of medicines stored in the storage compartment by information exchange with the medicine storage box or direct input by the user.

The display device includes a lamp provided for each storage compartment for indicating to which storage compartment the corresponding medicine should be inserted based on the information identified by the information input means, And an LCD window for displaying the information of the medicine so that the user can recognize it.

As the storage compartment, it is preferable that a storage compartment of a back type or a tray type is provided.

As described above, according to the present invention, the withdrawal of medicines according to a prescription is performed for each medicines instead of performing the medicines for each patient, and then the medicines drawn from the medicines storage room are mistaken as other medicines There is provided a drug cart for preventing a mistaken delivery of a drug mistily transmitted to a patient, and a drug management method using the drug cart.

According to the drug cart of the present invention and the method for managing the drug using the drug cart, a plurality of drugs to be supplied to individual patients can be classified and classified into units such as a ward using a drug management cart having a plurality of accommodation spaces. So that the nurse's drug supply business can be simplified and the weakening accident can be surely prevented.

1 is a conceptual diagram of a drug management method according to the present invention,
2 is a flow chart for explaining a method of managing a medicine using a medicine cart according to the present invention, and
3 to 10 are views showing various embodiments of the medicine cart.

According to the present invention, a plurality of storage compartments 410 are partitioned by a partition for delivering medicines withdrawn from a drug storage room 100 such as a warehouse, a drug store shelf, an automatic medicine storage and retrieval apparatus, A drug cart 400 and a drug management method using such a drug cart may be provided.

An automatic medicine storage and retrieval apparatus as a medicine storage room can be used that includes a plurality of shelves that are moved in association with a vertical rotary conveyor and a plurality of containers in which the medicine is stored in the shelf.

As shown in FIG. 1, the medicine vault 100 and the medicine cart 400 can be configured to exchange information with each other by a wired or wireless communication method. Each of the compartments 410 of the medicine cart 400 is provided with a display device 420 capable of displaying information of medicines stored in the compartment by a method such as information exchange with the medicine storage 100, Can be installed.

When the medicine storage box and the medicine cart exchange information with each other and the display device 420 is installed in the medicine cart, the medicine withdrawn from the specific position of the medicine storage box 100 can be stored in any storage compartment of the medicine cart 400 It is convenient because it is possible to automatically display how many of them are to be stored through the display device 420.

According to the present invention, since a person takes out the medicine from the medicine management apparatus 100 and administers it to each of the storage compartments 410 of the medicine cart 400, the medicine displayed on the display device 420 can be accurately It is preferable to provide an inspection device such as a scanner recognition device or the like so as to be able to confirm the administration to the storage compartment 410 so as to prevent misapplication. The inspecting device recognizes information of actually administered medicines and compares them with the information of medicines to be administered to the storage compartment, thereby preventing misuse of the medicines.

In addition, when the administration of the medicines into the respective storage compartments is completed according to one prescription information (per patient or medicament), the medicine cart 400 is provided with the following prescription information (per patient or medicament) And an end button. When the termination button is pressed, the control unit of the medicine repository 100 recognizes that the medicine dispensing operation according to one prescription information has been completed, and can be configured to prepare for taking out the next medicine.

Hereinafter, referring to the flowchart of FIG. 2, a method of managing medicines using the medicine cart according to the present invention will be described.

When an order for a drug to be withdrawn to be delivered to the patient, that is, an order for a specific drug, is delivered to the drug store (S11), data about the drug to be withdrawn from the server PC is collected and analyzed by drug and patient The information is aligned according to the criteria (S13). The server PC may be located inside the medicament repository or may be located externally.

The server PC delivers the sorted data to either the printer 10, the PDA 10, or the built-in PC 30.

When the printer 10 is used, the printer 10 outputs a barcode or the like on which drug information is recorded. By attaching an output product such as an output barcode to or around the storage compartment 410 of the medicine cart, Make sure that the medicine to be stored in the compartment is correctly stored. In this case, the medicine cart 400 is provided with a barcode scanner as information input means and an LCD as display means capable of displaying the information recognized by the barcode scanner. The method of utilizing the printer 10 is low in cost for system construction and can be improved in software compatibility with other products.

When a PDA is used, there is no need to provide a barcode scanner as a separate information input means and an LCD as display means in the medicine cart, and data management is easy. Since the PDA can perform both the function of the information inputting means and the function of the display means, when the PDA is used in conjunction with the medicine cart, information of the medicine is read by the PDA, and at the same time, It is possible.

When a built-in PC is used, a built-in PC, a barcode scanner as information input means, an LCD as display means, and the like can be installed in the medicine cart. In this case, the operator can freely utilize both hands as opposed to using the PDA, and can execute various application programs using the built-in PC.

Subsequently, the user confirms a picking list for each item of the medicine (S15), and selects one of the items, that is, one medicine (S17).

When the item is selected, a storage box in which an item selected by a method such as turning on a lamp in the storage compartment where the corresponding item, that is, the medicine is stored, may be displayed (S19). It is preferable that the lamps are sequentially displayed for each patient and displayed.

The user confirms the information of the item through the barcode scan of the item and inputs an item, i.e., medicine, into the cell, i.e., the storage bin (S23). In this case, if the number of items is two or more, it is preferable to individually scan the items for barcode scanning for accurate counting. That is, if the number of items to be inserted is two or more, the process returns from S23 to S21, and repeats the same process for the number of inputs.

When the insertion of the item into the storage compartment of one patient is completed, the lamp of the storage compartment of the other patient requiring the item is turned on. That is, when the number of patients to be selected is two or more, when the insertion of the corresponding item into the storage bin of one patient is completed, the process returns to step S19 so that the insertion of the corresponding item into the storage bin of another patient can be continued I will go.

When the insertion operation for all the patients' accommodation boxes to be used for the item is completed, it is checked whether or not the next item, i.e. another medicine, needs to be inserted (S25). If there is a next item, the process returns to step S17.

When the order processing of all the items is completed (S27), the server PC confirms the picking list for each patient, and checks whether the work according to the item-by-item list is correctly completed (S29)

When it is confirmed that all the items, that is, medicines, are put into the correct patient-specific compartment, the completed medicament cart is transferred to the ward where the patient is hospitalized by the operator.

In the above description, the information is recognized by using the barcode label, but it goes without saying that RFID and the like can be utilized in addition to the barcode.

As described above, according to the present invention, it is possible to classify and supply a plurality of medicines to be supplied to individual patients to a unit such as a ward using a medicament-managing cart having a plurality of accommodating spaces, thereby simplifying the drug supply business of the nurse And it becomes possible to surely prevent the weakening accident.

3 to 10 show various modifications of the medicine cart.

In the medicine containers shown in Figs. 3, 5, 7, and 9, a bag type storage compartment is provided as each storage compartment. In the medicine carts shown in Figs. 4, 6, 8, And a storage compartment is provided.

In the bag type storage compartment, the size of the bag may have a size of large, medium, and small as indicated by L, M, and S in the drawing.

As described above, each medicine cart may be provided with a storage compartment in which the medicine can be stored and a display device capable of displaying information of the medicine stored in the storage compartment. The display device includes a lamp installed in each storage compartment for indicating to which storage compartment the corresponding medicine should be put based on the information identified by the device such as a barcode scanner, And an LCD window capable of displaying information of the medicine being used.

For example, a device for recognizing and inputting information, such as a barcode scanner, may be fixedly installed at a predetermined position of the medicine cart, for example, at a position near the LCD window (see FIGS. 4 to 6 and 8 to 10) (See Fig. 7), or a plurality of cartridges may be installed on the upper surface of the medicine cart (see Fig. 3).

In addition, the medicine cart is preferably provided with a wheel and a handle for the convenience of movement.

While the present invention has been particularly shown and described with reference to exemplary embodiments thereof, it is to be understood that the invention is not limited to the disclosed exemplary embodiments, It is to be understood that various modifications and changes may be made by those skilled in the art.

The present invention relates to a PDA, and more particularly, to a PDA having a built-in PC,

Claims (13)

A drug management method for withdrawing necessary drugs from a drug storage room (100) storing drugs and delivering them to a patient,
An aligning step of aligning drug information of prescription data in which drug information to be withdrawn is recorded based on a drug-by-drug basis and a patient-by-patient basis;
A withdrawing step of withdrawing the medicines from the medicament storage compartment 100 according to sorted medicament standards;
An injecting step of injecting the drawn medicine into a medicine cart 400 provided with a plurality of storage compartments 410;
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The step of inputting includes the steps of inputting the information of the taken-out medicine into the medicine cart 400, displaying the storage compartment 410 to which the medicine is to be inserted, And injecting the drug,
When the number of medicines to be injected into one compartment 410 is two or more, information of the medicines withdrawn is input to the medicament cart 400, and the compartment 410 to which the medicines are to be introduced And the step of injecting the medicine into the compartment (410) displayed is performed by the number of times the medicine is dispensed. The method according to claim 1,
Wherein the medicine container (100) and the medicine cart (400) are capable of exchanging information with each other by a wired or wireless communication method. The method according to claim 1,
The drug information sorted on the basis of the medicines is transmitted to any one of the printer 10, the PDA 20 and the built-in PC 30, and the user can input medicines through the display of the PDA, And the information can be confirmed. The method of claim 3,
Wherein the barcode information is recorded in the output of the printer and the user attaches the output to the storage bin (410) of the medicine cart (400). delete delete The method according to claim 1,
Wherein the withdrawing step and the injecting step are repeated for another drug when the input of the drug for all the patients requiring the withdrawn drug is completed. The method according to claim 1,
When the withdrawing step and the dispensing step are completed for all the drawn-out medicines, in order to check whether the medicine put in the medicine cart 400 is correctly inserted according to the medicine-specific criterion, (400), the medicine injected into each of the storage compartments (410) is checked. A medicine cart (400) for taking out a necessary medicine from a medicine storage room (100) storing medicine and delivering it to a patient,
And a plurality of compartments (410) capable of accommodating medicines managed to be delivered to a patient by the medicament management method of claim 1 by a patient. The method of claim 9,
Further comprising a wired or wireless communication device for exchanging information with the medicine storage box (100). The method of claim 9,
Further comprising a display device (420) capable of displaying information of medicines stored in the storage compartment (410) by information exchange with the medicine storage box (100) or direct input by a user. The method of claim 11,
The display device 420 includes a lamp provided for each compartment 410 for indicating to which compartment 410 the medicine is to be loaded based on the information identified by the information input means, And a liquid crystal display (LCD) window for displaying the information of the medicine to which the information is inputted by the input means so that the user can recognize the information. The method of claim 9,
Wherein the storage compartment (410) is provided with a back type or tray type storage compartment.

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