JP2017225639A - Medication management device and medicament storage apparatus - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a medicament storage apparatus capable of prompting a patient to take medicament and reducing work that a pharmacist or the like performs at a patient's house.SOLUTION: A medicament storage apparatus 1 comprises a medication management device 2 and medicament installation members 3a and 3b. The medication management device 2 includes revelation means at a plurality of locations, and the medicament installation members 3a and 3b have a planar shape and include a plurality of medicament arrangement parts 11. The medicament installation members 3a and 3b can be demountably mounted on the medicament management device 2, in a state where the medicament installation members 3a and 3b are mounted on the medication management device 2, the medicament arrangement parts 11 of the medicament installation members 3 correspond to the revelation means of the medication management device 2, and, when the medication time arrives, a light-emitting part (revelation means) at a prescribed position of the medication management device 2 is functioned to indicate a specific medicament arrangement part 11.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 1

Description

  The present invention relates to a medicine storage device for taking out medicines for each dose.

Older patients and patients whose symptoms have gone out of the acute phase are often treated at home. Also, patients who do not need urgency such as hypertension and hyperlipidemia are often treated at home. Patients who are treated at home need to take medication based on self-management.
For example, if the doctor's prescription is to take A and B drugs in the morning, take B medicine in the daytime, and take twice the morning amount of A and C drugs after dinner, the patient decides. It is necessary to take out a prescribed amount of medicine from a medicine box etc. at a given time and take it.
However, as a real problem, the type and amount of medicine to be taken may be wrong or forgotten. On the other hand, it may be taken twice.
Especially for elderly people and patients with reduced energy, it is difficult to sort medicines and take out a certain amount of a certain amount of medicine from a medicine box etc. There is also.

  In elderly care facilities, etc., care staff will assist in the management of medications. However, in current nursing care facilities, one care worker often cares for multiple elderly people, and the burden of care personnel is high. large. In other words, in nursing care facilities, care workers take out a specified amount of drugs from a drug box, etc. at a specified time, and hand them to the patient, but this work is cumbersome and improved. Was desired.

A technique related to this problem is disclosed in Patent Document 1. The invention disclosed in Patent Document 1 is a medication management device, which is provided at a position corresponding to a hole, a pocket for storing a drug in a plate-shaped member, a hole drilled at a position included in the pocket, and the like. An infrared sensor and a control device that controls the infrared sensor are provided. It also has a separate sending computer and receiving computer.
In the medication management device disclosed in Patent Document 1, the medication time and day of the week are described on the plate member. The pocket is directly provided in the plate-like member, and the pocket is arranged at a position corresponding to each dosing time and each day of the week. The infrared sensor detects the presence or absence of a medicine stored in a corresponding pocket.

In the medication management device disclosed in Patent Document 1, as described above, the medication time and day of the week are described on the plate member, and the plate member has a pocket.
The patient himself / herself manages the time of taking the medicine, and when the time arrives, the patient knows the pocket corresponding to the taking time with reference to the dosing time and day of the week. Then take the medicine out of the pocket and take it.
The fact that the medicine has been taken out is detected by an infrared sensor, data is transmitted from the control device to the transmitting computer, and further data is transmitted from the transmitting computer to the receiving computer.
A pharmacist or the like can see whether or not the patient has taken the medicine by looking at the data of the receiving computer.

Japanese Patent Laying-Open No. 2015-143891

According to the invention disclosed in Patent Document 1, the patient's medication status can be managed even outside the patient's home or outside the care facility.
However, the medication management device disclosed in Patent Document 1 is merely a post-management of the medication status, and does not have a function of prompting the patient to take medication.
Therefore, when using the medication management apparatus disclosed in Patent Document 1, it is necessary for the patient himself to know the medication timing by looking at the clock and taking the medication out of the pocket of the plate-like member based on his own judgment. Therefore, even if the medication management device disclosed in Patent Document 1 is used, it is difficult for the patient to forget to take the medicine or to eliminate an error such as taking it twice.

  In nursing care facilities and the like, the staff still manages the patient's medication time, and when the medication time comes, the care staff is forced to take out the medicine from the pocket of the plate member and hand it to the patient. Therefore, even if the medication management device disclosed in Patent Document 1 is used, the burden on the care worker is not greatly changed.

The medication management device disclosed in Patent Document 1 is installed in a patient's home or care facility, and a pharmacist at a visiting pharmacy visits the patient's home or care facility to visit the patient's home or care facility in the pocket of the plate member. It is premised on replenishing.
That is, a pharmacist at a visiting pharmacy visits a care facility every few days and examines the pockets of the plate-like member. Then, the medicines for several days after the visit date are inserted into the corresponding day and time pockets of the medication management device.
In the medication management device disclosed in Patent Document 1, a pharmacist brings drugs from a pharmacy to a patient's home or care facility, sorts the drugs at the patient's home, etc., and the day of the week of the plate-shaped member pocket at the patient's home, etc. Check the time and doctor's prescription, and put the drug in each pocket at the patient's home.
As described above, in the medication management device disclosed in Patent Document 1, it is necessary to perform most of the work of the pharmacist in an unfamiliar place, which is one of the causes of mistakes.
In addition, since the pharmacist needs to put the medicine in a predetermined pocket without error, it takes time to check and review, which has been a factor of reducing work efficiency.

  The present invention focuses on the above-mentioned problems of the prior art, and it is an object of the present invention to provide a medicine storage device that can prompt the patient to take medication and can reduce the work performed at the patient's home or the like. Is. Moreover, this invention makes it a subject to provide the medication management apparatus which can achieve the same objective.

  An aspect for solving the above-described problem is a medicine storage device having a medication management device and a medication placement member, wherein the medication management device has revealing means at a plurality of positions, and the medication placement member is planar. A plurality of medicine placement portions for containing medicines, the medicine placement member is detachable from the medication management device, and the medicine placement member is installed in the state where the medication placement member is mounted on the medication management device. The medicine placement section of the member corresponds to the revealing means of the medication management apparatus, and when the medication time comes, the revealing means at a predetermined position of the medication management apparatus functions to indicate a specific medicine placement section It is a medicine storage device.

  In the above-described embodiment, the medication management device has a window member, and when the medication time comes, the window opens at a position corresponding to the specific drug placement unit, and only the drug in the specific drug placement unit can be taken out. .

  Another aspect that solves the same problem is a medicine storage device having a medication management device and a medication placement member, wherein the medication management device has a window member, and the medication placement member is planar, There are provided a plurality of medicine placement sections for containing medicines, and the medicine placement member can be attached to and detached from the medication management device. When the medication time comes, a window opens at a position corresponding to a specific medicine placement section, and The medicine storage device is characterized in that only the medicine in the medicine placement section can be taken out.

  Another aspect that solves the same problem is a medicine storage device having a medication management device and a medicine placement member, wherein the medicine placement member has a planar shape and is provided with a plurality of medicine placement portions for containing the medicine. The medicine installation member is detachable from the medication management device, and the medication management device has an instruction means, and when the medication time comes, the instruction means functions to designate a specific medicine placement unit. Is a medicine storage device characterized by

  In each of the above-described aspects, it is desirable that a plurality of medicine placement members can be placed on a single medication management device.

  In each of the above-described aspects, it is desirable that the medication management device is plate-shaped and that the medicine installation member can be mounted on the front side and the back side.

  Another aspect that solves the same problem is a medication management device to which a planar medicine placement member provided with a plurality of medicine placement portions for containing a medicine is attached, wherein the medicine placement member is detachably attached. A mounting unit, and the mounting unit has revealing means at a plurality of positions. When the drug installation member is mounted on the medication management device, the drug placement unit of the drug installation member and the display unit of the medication management device Correspondingly, the medication management apparatus is characterized in that when a medication time comes, the revealing means at a predetermined position of the medication management apparatus functions to indicate a specific medicine placement unit.

  Another aspect that solves the same problem is a medication management device to which a planar medicine placement member provided with a plurality of medicine placement portions for containing a medicine is attached, wherein the medicine placement member is detachably attached. A medication management device having a mounting part and a window member, and when the medication time comes, the window opens at a position corresponding to the specific medicine placement part, and only the medicine in the particular medicine placement part can be taken out. is there.

  According to the medicine storage device and the medication management device of the present invention, the patient can be encouraged to take medication, and the work performed at the patient's home or care facility can be reduced.

It is a perspective view of the chemical | medical agent storage apparatus of embodiment of this invention. It is a front view of the chemical | medical agent storage apparatus of FIG. It is a disassembled perspective view of the chemical | medical agent storage apparatus of FIG. It is sectional drawing of the chemical | medical agent storage apparatus of FIG. It is a disassembled perspective view of the medication management apparatus of the chemical | medical agent storage apparatus of FIG. It is sectional drawing of the chemical | medical agent storage apparatus of further another embodiment of this invention. It is a disassembled perspective view of the medication management apparatus shown in FIG. It is a front view of the chemical | medical agent storage apparatus of further another embodiment of this invention. (A) is a perspective view of the chemical | medical agent storage apparatus of further another embodiment of this invention, (b) is the cross-sectional enlarged view.

Embodiments of the present invention will be further described below.
As shown in FIG. 3, the medicine storage apparatus 1 according to the present embodiment includes a single medicine management apparatus 2 and two medicine installation members 3a and 3b. As an apparatus attached to the medicine storage apparatus 1, there is a communication terminal 5 as shown in FIG.

The communication terminal 5 is a known notebook computer or communication tablet, and has input means such as a keyboard and a touch panel, and a display screen. The communication terminal 5 has a communication function for connecting to the Internet. The communication terminal 5 can construct a wireless LAN together with other devices, and can be carried cordlessly.
Furthermore, the communication terminal 5 has a function of communicating with a communication means (not shown) built in the medication management apparatus 2. The communication method with the medication management apparatus 2 may be wired communication or wireless communication.

  The communication terminal 5 is also used as a mobile terminal, and can communicate with medical institutions such as doctors, nurses, and pharmacists through the Internet or the like. It is also used to keep in touch with relatives such as children and grandchildren when the patient is in a facility or is elderly.

The medicine installation members 3a and 3b are made of a transparent thin resin sheet and are rectangular in front view. The medicine setting members 3a and 3b have core bars 10a and 10b built in the upper side and the lower side based on the posture in use.
A plurality of medicine placement portions 11 are provided in front of the medicine placement members 3a and 3b. The medicine placement portion 11 has a pocket shape, and a small pocket sheet 15 is bonded to the base sheet 12 of the medicine placement members 3a and 3b.
The pocket sheet 15 is substantially square, the lower side and the left and right sides are bonded to the base sheet 12, and the upper side is open.

In the present embodiment, the medicine placement units 11 are arranged in 7 rows and 4 columns as shown in FIG. The arrangement | positioning of the chemical | medical agent arrangement | positioning part 11 respond | corresponds to the day of the week which takes a chemical | medical agent, and morning, noon, evening, and before going to sleep.
That is, in the arrangement of the medicine placement unit 11, seven vertical rows represent Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday of the week, and indicate the day of the week to be taken.
The four horizontal rows show the daily dosing periods such as taking after breakfast, taking after lunch, taking after dinner, and taking before sleeping.
In the medicine installation members 3a and 3b employed in the present embodiment, the day of the week and the period of administration are printed on the medicine placement unit 11, as shown in FIG.

Next, the medication management apparatus 2 will be described.
As shown in FIG. 5, the medication management device 2 includes a single main body substrate 20, two window members 21 a and 21 b, and upper and lower frame forming members 22.
The main body substrate 20 has a plate shape as shown in FIG. 5, and light emitting members 23 and drug detection sensors 25 are arranged on the front and back surfaces in 7 rows and 4 columns, respectively. In the present embodiment, the light emitting member 23 is a revealing means and an instruction means.
In the present embodiment, the light emitting members 23 and the drug detection sensors 25 are respectively arranged in the vertical 7 rows and the horizontal 4 columns on the surface of the main body substrate 20. Are arranged in 7 rows and 4 columns, respectively.

  In other words, one light emitting member 23 and one medicine detection sensor 25 constitute a set of display / detection unit 26. In the present embodiment, there are 28 sets of display / detection units 26 on the front surface and the back surface of the main body substrate 20. In the present embodiment, the display / detection units 26 are arranged in vertical 7 rows and horizontal 4 columns on the surface of the main body substrate 20, and are also arranged in vertical 7 rows and horizontal 4 columns on the back surface of the main body substrate 20.

The arrangement of the display / detection section 26 corresponds to the arrangement of the medicine placement section 11 of the medicine placement member 3 described above.
The seven vertical rows of the display / detection unit 26 correspond to the day-of-week arrangement of the drug placement unit 11 of the drug installation member 3. The vertical four columns of the display / detection unit 26 correspond to the period of taking such as taking after breakfast, taking after lunch, taking after dinner, and taking before sleeping.

The light emitting member 23 is a known light emitter, and an LED is employed in this embodiment.
The medicine detection sensor 25 is a known article detection sensor that uses light, infrared rays, capacitance, and the like. In this embodiment, an infrared sensor is employed.

The main board 20 includes a control device (not shown) and communication means. The control device controls the light emitting member 23, the medicine detection sensor 25, and the window member 21.
The control device has a calendar function to know the day of the week and a clock function to know the time. The control device also includes communication means.

The window member 21 has four independent bands 30a, b, c, d. Each of the strips 30a, 30b, 30c, and 30d has an unwinding-side roll 31 and a winding-side roll 32, and a band-shaped body 33 is wound between them.
The unwinding roll 31 includes a stepping motor (not shown) inside and can be rotated at an arbitrary number of rotations.
Even if the winding side roll 32 has a constant torque spring (spring) (not shown) built therein, it can apply a constant tension to the strip 33.
The strip 33 is provided with an opening 35 in one place. The opening 35 functions as a window. The window member 21 has the above-described four systems of belt trains 30a, b, c, and d arranged in parallel.
The window member 21 can drive the winding side roll 32 to move the band-like bodies 33 of the respective band rows 30a, b, c, d, and move the opening 35 to an arbitrary position.
In the present embodiment, the window member 21 also functions as an instruction unit.

The frame forming member 22 is provided with a clock unit 40, a speaker (informing unit) 41, a light emitting unit (informing unit) 42, and a voice stop switch 43. An outing switch 45 is also provided.
A known digital timepiece is fitted in the timepiece unit 40.
The speaker 41 is a notification means for performing notification by voice.
In the present embodiment, the speaker 41 functions as a notification unit that notifies that the time for taking the medicine has arrived.
It also functions as a notification means for notifying the situation.
The sound stop switch 43 is a switch for stopping the sound of the speaker 41. The going-out switch 45 is a switch that is operated when the patient goes out, and is a switch that stops the medication management apparatus 2 for a certain period.

  The light emitting unit 42 incorporates a light such as an LED (not shown) and emits light according to a predetermined signal. The light emitting member 23 is an informing means for informing through light. In the present embodiment, the light emitting member 23 functions as a notification unit that notifies that the time for taking the medicine has arrived.

As shown in FIG. 5, the medication management device 2 according to the present embodiment is provided with window members 21 a and 21 b on the front side and the back side of the main body substrate 20. In the present embodiment, the main body substrate 20 and the window members 21 a and 21 b are integrated via the frame forming member 22.
As described above, the window member 21 has four independent band rows 30a, b, c, and d, and each band row 30a, b, c, and d is an array of the display / detection unit 26 of the main body substrate 20. It corresponds to the vertical four rows, and it corresponds to the dosing period such as taking after breakfast, taking after lunch, taking after dinner, and taking before bedtime.
That is, the band 30a is in charge of taking after breakfast, the band 30b is in charge of taking after lunch, the band 30c is in charge of taking after dinner, and the band 30d is in charge of taking before sleeping.

  In the present embodiment, there is a gap extending in a planar shape between the main body substrate 20 and the front and back window members 21. In this embodiment, the said gap | interval functions as accommodation space 36a, 36b of the chemical | medical agent installation member 3. FIG. The accommodation spaces 36a and 36b of the medicine installation member are open on one side surface, and the openings 37a and 37b serve as insertion openings for inserting the medicine installation member 3 into the accommodation spaces 36a and 36b.

  When the accommodation spaces 36a and 36b between the main body substrate 20 and the window member 21 are observed from the front side or the back side, the plan view is substantially rectangular. Engaging portions 38a and 38b are provided on the upper and lower sides.

In the medicine storage device 1 of the present embodiment, medicine placement members 3a and 3b are inserted on the front side and the back side of the medication management device 2, respectively.
The medicine installation members 3a and 3b are inserted into the accommodation spaces 36a and 36b of the medicine installation member through the openings 37a and 37b on the side surface of the medication management device 2.
In the state where the medicine setting members 3a and 3b are inserted into the medication management device 2, the core bars 10a and 10b provided on the upper and lower sides of the medicine setting members 3a and 3b are connected to the upper side portions of the housing spaces 36a and 36b. It engages with engaging portions 38a, 38b formed on the lower side.
For this reason, the drug placement members 3a and 3b are stretched at the middle portions by the core rods 10a and 10b, and are disposed on the front and back surfaces of the main body substrate 20 without wrinkles or slack.
At this time, each medicine placement portion 11 of the medicine placement members 3 a and 3 b corresponds to the display / detection portion 26 configured by one light emitting member 23 and one medicine detection sensor 25 of the main body substrate 20. That is, one medicine arrangement part 11 of medicine installation members 3a and 3b faces the front or back of a pair of light emitting members 23 and medicine detection sensor 25.

Next, functions and usage methods of the medicine storage device 1 of the present embodiment will be described.
In the medicine storage device 1, the medicine is stored in the medicine placement portion 11 of the medicine placement members 3a and 3b, and the medicine placement members 3a and 3b in that state are placed in the accommodation spaces 36a and 36b on the front and back surfaces of the medication management device 2. Is done.
Here, the medicine placement section 11 of the medicine placement members 3a and 3b corresponds to the day of the week and the period of administration as described above, and the medicine placement members 3a and 3b are connected to the medicine placement section 11 as shown in FIG. , The day of the week and the period of dosing are printed.
In the present embodiment, each medicine placement portion 11 of the medicine placement member 3a, 3b contains a medicine to be taken when the patient arrives.

In this embodiment, the medication management device 2 of the medicine storage device 1 is always placed at the patient's home or the like.
Here, in the medicine storage device 1 of the present embodiment, since the medicine setting members 3a and 3b can be attached to and detached from the medication management device 2, the pharmacist removes the medicine setting members 3a and 3b from the medication management device 2 and supplies the medicine. The placement unit 11 can store the medicine.
Furthermore, the pharmacist can perform the work of storing the medicine in the medicine placement unit 11 at a place other than the patient's home.
That is, the pharmacist can store the drug in the drug placement unit 11 in his / her pharmacy (dispensing room), and can bring the drug setting members 3a and 3b in the state where the drug is stored into the patient's home or care facility, The medicine installation members 3a and 3b can be attached to the medication management apparatus 2 at home or the like.
As described above, when the pharmacist regularly visits the patient's home or the like, the medication management device 2 placed in the patient's home or the like contains the drug installation members 3a and 3b that have already been inserted for a long time. Yes. The pharmacist brings the drug installation members 3a, 3b in the state where the drug is placed in the drug placement unit 11 at his / her own pharmacy to the patient's home, etc., and the drug installation members 3a, 3b already installed Replace with 3a, 3b.

The visiting pharmacy pharmacist visits the patient's home, for example, once a week. On the other hand, the medication management apparatus 2 of the present embodiment can be equipped with two drug installation members 3a and 3b, and each drug installation member 3a and 3b can store a drug for one week. .
Therefore, the pharmacist newly accommodates a week's worth of medicine in one medicine installation member 3 at his / her pharmacy, brings it to the patient's home, etc., and now brings the medicine installation members 3a and 3b already installed It will replace with the chemical | medical agent installation member 3 which was made.

Thus, the medicine setting member 3 brought by the pharmacist is attached to the medication management apparatus 2.
The medicine placement member 3 is placed at the patient's home or the like in a state where it is hung on a wall or leaning against a wall or pillar, with either the front or back facing the patient or the like.
When the work is finished, the pharmacist leaves the patient's house.

When the time for taking any of the drugs arrives, the fact is notified to the patient. For example, if there is a medicine to be taken after lunch, a sound that prompts the user to take is emitted from the speaker 41 at noon. The sound emitted from the speaker 41 may be a simple sound such as a buzzer or a chime, a word such as “It is time for medicine”, or a melody.
A similar sound may be generated from the communication terminal 5.
Moreover, in this embodiment, the light emission part (notification means) 42 of the frame formation member 22 light-emits, and notifies a patient that the time to take medicine came also visually.

Further, in the present embodiment, any of the light emitting members 23 of the main body substrate 20 emits light to clearly show the specific medicine placement portion 11. More specifically, the light emitting member 23 at a position corresponding to the taking period of the day of the week emits light. That is, the light emitting member 23 at a position corresponding to the timing of taking the medicine emits light.
For example, if the current day of the week is Tuesday and the time is noon, the light emitting member 23 belonging to the display / detection unit 26 in the second row and the second row from the top emits light.
As described above, the arrangement of the set of the light emitting member 23 and the medicine detection sensor 25 corresponds to the arrangement of the medicine placement unit 11 of the medicine placement member 3, which is the second row from the top and the second row in the horizontal row. The set corresponds to the drug placement unit 11 of “Tuesday, after lunch” of the drug installation member 3.

Further, the window member 21 is operated, and the opening 35 is moved to a position corresponding to the taking period of the day of the week. According to the previous example, among the four belt rows 30a, b, c, d of the window member 21, the belt row 30b in charge of taking after lunch is driven, the belt-like body 33b is drawn out, and the opening 35 is moved in the vertical direction. The opening 35 is stopped in front of the display / detection unit 26 in the second row from the top corresponding to Tuesday.
As a result, the medicine placement unit 11 of the medicine placement member 3 is opened in front of the pocket sheet 15 of the medicine placement unit 11 “on Tuesday, after lunch”. As a result, the window opens at a position corresponding to the pocket sheet 15 of the medicine placement section 11 “Tuesday, after lunch”, and only the medicine of the specific medicine placement section 11 can be taken out.

Further, the medicine installation member 3 is made of a transparent thin resin sheet, and has a display / detection section behind it with an opening (window) in front of the pocket sheet 15 of the medicine placement section 11 on “Tuesday, after lunch”. Since the 26 light emitting members 23 emit light, the medicine placement section 11 “Tuesday, after lunch” is revealed and is conspicuous.
In other words, the drug placement member 3 has 28 drug placement portions 11 arranged in 7 rows and 4 columns, but the entire surface is covered with a band 33 except for the portion corresponding to “Tuesday, after lunch”. It has been broken. The main body substrate 20 on the back surface of the medicine placement member 3 has display / detection units 26 arranged in seven rows and four columns, except for the display / detection unit 26 corresponding to “Tuesday, after lunch”. Thus, the light emitting member 23 is turned off.
In this embodiment, a window is formed only in front of the medicine placement section 11 in which the medicine to be taken at that time is accommodated, and only the medicine placement section 11 in which the medicine to be taken at that time is accommodated is emitted from the back side to emit light. To do.
Therefore, only the drug placement unit 11 on “Tuesday, after lunch” stands out.

The patient knows that it is time to take medication by the sound of the speaker 41 and the light emitting portion (notification means) 42 of the frame forming member 22, and the position of the window by the opening 35 of the window member 21. The location of the medicine to be taken is instructed from the light emitting position of the light emitting member 23.
Then, the patient inserts a finger through the window through the opening 35 of the window member 21 and takes out the medicine from the medicine placement unit 11 “on Tuesday, after lunch”.

That is, in the present embodiment, the light emitting member 23 of the main body substrate 20 and the opening 35 of the window member 21 function as instruction means for instructing a specific medicine placement unit 11.
Further, the light emitting member 23 of the main body substrate 20 and the speaker 41 and the light emitting unit 42 of the frame forming member 22 function as notification means for notifying that it is time to take medication.
When the patient removes the medicine from the medicine placement unit 11 “on Tuesday, after lunch”, the medicine detection sensor 25 of the corresponding display / detection unit 26 cannot detect the medicine, and the medicine detection sensor 25 is indirectly connected. In addition, it is detected that the medicine is taken out from the medicine placement unit 11 on “Tuesday, after lunch”.
When the detection by the medicine detection sensor 25 is lost, the light emission of the light emitting member 23 of the main body substrate 20 serving as a notification unit stops, the speaker 41 of the frame forming member 22 is silenced, and the light emitting unit 42 is turned off.

In the present embodiment, the fact that the medicine is discharged from the medicine placement unit 11 “Tuesday, after lunch” is recorded in the control device of the medication management apparatus 2, and the record is stored for a certain period. Note that the fact that the medicine is discharged from the medicine placement unit 11 is considered that the patient has taken the medicine, and the fact is also recorded.
The above-mentioned record is transmitted to the communication terminal 5 by the communication means of the medication management apparatus 2, and the same information is stored in the communication terminal 5.
Further, the time when the patient is considered to have taken the medicine and the information on the medicine are transmitted to an external person such as a doctor or a family through the Internet or the like.

Similarly, at the dinner time of the same day, a sound for encouraging dosing is emitted from the speaker 41, and the light emitting part (notification means) 42 of the frame forming member 22 emits light.
Further, the window member 21 is operated to open the window by moving the opening 35 to the corresponding position of the medicine placement unit 11 “Tuesday, after dinner”, and the pocket sheet 15 of the medicine placement unit 11 “Tuesday, after dinner”. The light emitting member 23 of the display / detection unit 26 in the back emits light with an opening in front of the light.
The same operation is performed during breakfast and bedtime.

The medicine storage device 1 according to the present embodiment includes a medication management device 2 and a plurality of medication placement members 3, and the medication placement member 3 is detachable from the medication management device 2.
Therefore, the pharmacist can store the drug in the drug placement unit 11 in advance at his / her own pharmacy or the like, and can bring the drug setting member 3 in the state where the drug is stored into the patient's home or a nursing facility. Then, by replacing the medicine installation member 3 that has been brought in with the medicine installation member 3 already mounted on the medication management apparatus 2, supplementation of the medicine to the medication management apparatus 2 can be completed.
Therefore, according to the medicine storage device 1 of the present embodiment, most of the work that has been performed at the patient's home or the like can be performed at the pharmacist's pharmacy or the like, and the work performed at the patient's home or the like is reduced.
Furthermore, since the pharmacist can replenish the drug at a familiar place, there are few errors and the time required for review is short.

Moreover, since the chemical | medical agent storage apparatus 1 of this embodiment can mount | wear with the chemical | medical agent installation member 3 on front and back, the area occupied exclusively on a wall etc. is small.
In addition, since the medicine storage device 1 of this embodiment can be equipped with a plurality of medicine placement members 3, even if the medicine in one medicine placement member 3 is used up, the medicine remains in the other medicine placement members 3. Yes.
Therefore, for example, assuming that a medicine for a certain period (7 days in this embodiment) is stored in one medicine installation member 3, the pharmacist revisits on the 8th day from the previous visit date. To do. Then, after the pharmacist visits, the medicine of the medicine installation member 3a arranged on the front side of the medicine installation member 3 is swallowed when 7 days have passed. The user turns the medicine installation member 3 over and directs the medicine installation member 3b on the back side to the room side, and takes the medicine accommodated in the medicine installation member 3b.

  For example, when the pharmacist visits the patient's home on the 8th day, one of the drug installation members 3a is empty. The pharmacist replaces the new medicine installation member 3 brought with the original medicine installation member 3a. As described above, after the medicine in one medicine installation member 3 is used up, when the pharmacist goes to replenish the medicine, the replenishment of the medicine can be completed simply by replacing the medicine installation member 3.

In the medicine storage device 1 according to the present embodiment, the light emitting member 23 of the main body substrate 20, the speaker 41 of the frame forming member 22, and the light emitting unit 42 function as a notification unit that notifies that it is time to take medication.
The light emitting member 23 and the light emitting unit 42 are notifications by light, and are notifications appealing to the eye. On the other hand, the speaker 41 is a voice notification and is a notification appealing to hearing.

According to the notification by the speaker 41, information such as the situation and conditions can be transmitted to the user.
For example, it may be prompted to take a discharged medicine such as “Take me medicine.”

  In the embodiment described above, the medication management device 2 includes the light emitting member 23 of the main body substrate 20 and the window member 21, but the light emitting member 23 is not necessarily provided on the main body substrate 20. The window member 21 may be omitted, or the window member 21 may be present and the light emitting member 23 may be absent.

In addition, the medication management device 2 described above is provided with drug placement members 3 a and 3 b on the front and back surfaces of a single main body substrate 20. Therefore, in the medication management device 2, the light emitting members 23 are provided on the front and back surfaces of the main body substrate 20. However, it is not always necessary to provide a large number of light emitting members 23.
Hereinafter, a configuration with few light emitting members 23 will be described with reference to FIGS. 6 and 7. The medicine storage device 48 shown in FIG. 6 includes a single medication management device 51 and two medicine installation members 3a and 3b. The medication management device 51 shown in FIGS. 6 and 7 has the light emitting member 23 on the main body substrate 20, but does not have the window member 21.
In the medication management apparatus 51 shown in FIG. 6 and FIG.
In the medication management device 51 shown in FIGS. 6 and 7, the main body substrate 20 has a through hole 47 or a transparent portion. The light emitting member 23 is built in the through hole 47 or the like. In the medicine storage device 48 shown in FIGS. 6 and 7, when the light emitting member 23 emits light, light is irradiated on both the front surface side and the back surface side of the main body substrate 20, and the specific medicine arrangement of the medicine placement members 3a and 3b is performed. The unit 11 is instructed. Here, the medicine setting members 3a and 3b provided on the front and back sides are illuminated by the light emitting member 23. For example, when the medication management device 51 is installed on the wall, the wall side surface is the user's surface. Do not touch. Therefore, the user does not mistake the medicine placement unit 11 from which the medicine is to be taken out.

Moreover, the medication management apparatus 51 shown in FIGS. 6 and 7 does not have the drug detection sensor 25 and does not have a sensor for knowing that the drug has been taken out from the drug placement unit 11.
The medication management device 51 has a medicine removal completion switch 52 in place of the medicine detection sensor 25.
In the medication management apparatus 51 of the present embodiment, the fact that the medicine has been discharged from the predetermined medicine placement unit 11 when the medicine removal completion switch 52 is operated by a patient or the like is recorded in the control device of the medication management apparatus 51. Further, when the medicine removal completion switch 52 is operated, it is considered that the patient has taken the medicine, and the fact is also recorded.

In the above-described embodiment, the day of the week and the dosing period are printed on the medicine setting member 3, but these may be described on the medicine management apparatus 53 side like the medicine storage apparatus 50 shown in FIG.
8 has the window member 21, but the main body substrate 20 has no display / detection unit. That is, the medication management apparatus 53 shown in FIG.
In place of this, the medication management device 53 shown in FIG. 8 has light emitting members 55a, 55b, 55c, and 55d corresponding to the morning, noon, evening and before going to bed. The light emitting members 55a, 55b, 55c, and 55d also indicate a specific medicine placement unit 11 and function as a revealing unit.

In the above-described embodiment, the window member 21 is one in which the belt-shaped body 33 travels in the vertical direction, but the belt-shaped body 33 may travel in the left-right direction.
Further, the window member may move in a plane shape like an XY table.

In the above-described embodiment, the window member 21 has the unwinding side member (unwinding side roll 31) and the winding side member (winding side roll 32), and the belt-like body 33 is wound between the two. However, the belt-like body 33 may be an endless belt 57 like the medicine storage device 56 shown in FIG. The medication management device 63 of the medicine storage device 56 shown in FIG. 9 has an upper front roll 58, an upper rear roll 60, a lower rear roll 61, and a lower front roll 62, and an endless belt 57 is suspended on these four rolls. ing. The endless belt 57 is provided with an opening 35 in one place. The opening 35 functions as a window. One of the four rolls described above is a drive roll driven by power, and the other is a driven roll.
The medicine storage device 56 of the present embodiment is also configured by a medication management device 63 and two medicine installation members 3a and 3b. However, in the medicine storage device 56 shown in FIG. 9, two medicine installation members 3 a and 3 b are arranged on the surface side of the main body substrate 20 in an overlapping manner.

In the medicine storage device 56 shown in FIG. 9, the endless belt 57 as the belt-like body 33 travels from the bottom to the top on the surface side of the medicine storage device 56 as indicated by an arrow.
Therefore, the opening 35 of the belt-like body 33 is not easily caught on the medicine placement portion 11.
That is, the medicine placement portion 11 has a pocket shape, and is provided with a pocket sheet 15 in which the lower side and the left and right sides are bonded to the base sheet 12, and the upper side is open. The endless belt 57 as the band-shaped body 33 advances from the bottom to the top in the pocket-shaped medicine placement portion 11. Therefore, the opening 35 of the endless belt 57 comes into contact with the closed lower side of the medicine placement portion 11 and advances so as to stroke the surface of the pocket-like medicine placement portion 11. In other words, the endless belt 57 advances in the forward direction with respect to the pocket shape. Therefore, when the endless belt 57 travels, the opening 35 is not easily caught by the medicine placement unit 11.
Further, according to this configuration, even if the endless belt 57 is close to the medicine installation member 3, the endless belt 57 is not easily caught by the medicine placement portion 11, so that the distance between the endless belt 57 and the main body substrate 20 can be made closer. The total thickness of the medicine storage device 56 can be reduced.

  The medicine installation member 3 may be disposable. The number of medicine placement portions 11 of the medicine placement member 3 is arbitrary, and may be, for example, one month.

1, 48, 50, 56 Drug storage device 2, 51, 53, 63 Drug management device 3a, 3b Drug installation member 11 Drug placement unit 20 Main body substrate 21 Window member 23 Light emitting member (display means)
25 medicine detection sensor 26 display / detection part 35 opening 55a, b, c, d light emitting member (displaying means)

Claims (8)

A drug storage device having a medication management device and a drug installation member,
The medication management device has revealing means at a plurality of positions,
The medicine placement member is planar and has a plurality of medicine placement portions for containing medicines, the medicine placement member is detachable from the medication management device, and the medication placement member is attached to the medication management device In this state, the drug placement part of the drug installation member corresponds to the revealing means of the medication management device,
A medicine storage device, wherein when a medication time comes, a revealing means at a predetermined position of the medication management device functions to indicate a specific medicine placement unit.   2. The medication management apparatus includes a window member, and when the medication time comes, the window opens at a position corresponding to the specific medicine placement section, and only the medicine in the specific medicine placement section can be taken out. The medicine storage device according to 1. A drug storage device having a medication management device and a drug installation member,
The medication management device has a window member,
The medicine installation member is planar, and a plurality of medicine placement portions for containing medicine are provided. The medicine placement member is detachable from the medication management device, and a specific medication placement is performed when the medication time comes. A medicine storage device characterized in that a window opens at a position corresponding to a part, and only medicines in a specific medicine placement part can be taken out. A drug storage device having a medication management device and a drug installation member,
The medicine installation member is planar, and a plurality of medicine placement portions for containing medicine are provided. The medicine installation member is detachable from the medication management apparatus, and the medication management apparatus has an instruction means. ,
A medicine storage device, wherein when the time for taking medicine comes, the instruction means functions to instruct a specific medicine placement unit.   The medicine storage device according to any one of claims 1 to 4, wherein a plurality of medicine placement members can be placed on a single medication management device.   The medicine storage device according to any one of claims 1 to 5, wherein the medication management device has a plate shape, and the medicine installation member can be mounted on the front surface side and the back surface side. A medication management apparatus to which a planar medicine installation member provided with a plurality of medicine placement parts for containing medicines is attached, and has a mounting part for detachably mounting the medicine installation member, There is a revealing means at the position, and in a state where the drug installation member is mounted on the medication management apparatus, the drug placement part of the drug installation member corresponds to the revealing means of the medication management apparatus,
A medication management apparatus characterized in that when a medication time comes, a revealing means at a predetermined position of the medication management apparatus functions to indicate a specific medicine placement unit.   A medication management apparatus to which a planar drug installation member provided with a plurality of drug placement units for containing a drug is mounted, having a mounting unit and a window member for detachably mounting the drug installation member, When it arrives, a medication management device, wherein a window opens at a position corresponding to a specific medicine placement section, and only the medicine in the specific medicine placement section can be taken out.

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