JP2001306697A - Prescription information input device - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a device which facilitates data input operation for receipt generation. SOLUTION: This device is equipped with an image read means which inputs entry contents of a prescription as image information, a character recognizing means which recognizes the character string of a specific item from a specific position of the prescription according to the image information and outputs it, an item storage means which temporarily stores character strings outputted by the character recognizing means by items while the item includes prescription data, a database in which patient information is registered, a prescription database in which prescription data for medicine preparation charging are registered, a retrieving means which performs retrieval from the patient database according to the name and birthday of patient information stored in the storage means, and a prescription registering means which registers the prescription data read out of the item storage means in the prescription database.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a prescription information input device for inputting prescription data for preparing a bill for dispensing compensation.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art In an insurance pharmacy, a pharmacist prepares a prescribed medicine according to a prescription brought by a patient and hands the medicine to the patient. Then, in order to charge the cost of the prescribed medicine and the dispensing technical fee, a dispensing fee billing statement (hereinafter, referred to as
(Referred to as a claim) and submit it to the insurance agency. It is possible to use a business processing device for insurance claim for creating this claim. Therefore, an operator such as an insurance pharmacy reads the name, amount, and number of days of the prescribed medicine from the prescription, and inputs it as prescription data from an input device such as a keyboard. At this time, the name and location of the medical institution that issued the prescription and the name of the insurance physician are also entered.

[0003]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION In order to reduce the waiting time between a patient coming to a pharmacy window and receiving a drug,
In some cases, prescription image data is first sent from the medical institution that issued the prescription to the dispensing pharmacy. For example, a dispensing pharmacy uses a facsimile to receive the contents of a prescription before the patient brings it. This allows the pharmacist to start the dispensing operation before the patient arrives, thereby reducing the patient's waiting time. However, regarding the input work for preparing the receipt, whether you look at the temporary prescription received by facsimile or look at the prescription brought by the patient, you will only rely on the manual work by the operator, so the receipt issuance The effect of reducing the amount of work is not expected. It has been demanded to reduce the labor of this input operation.

[0004]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention provides a format storage means for storing format information of a prescription, an image reading means for taking in the contents of a prescription as image information, and a prescription based on the format information and the image information. Character recognition means for recognizing and outputting a character string of a predetermined item from a predetermined position, wherein the item includes prescription data consisting of a drug name, a quantity and a number of days, and the character string output by the character recognition means Item storage means for temporarily storing separately, a patient database for registering patient information, a prescription database for registering prescription data for dispensing remuneration claims for each patient registered in the patient database, and the predetermined items are: It includes patient information including the patient's name, date of birth, and insurance information, and is stored in the item storage means. Searching means for searching the patient database by at least a name and a date of birth in the patient information; and reading out the patient information from the item storage means and registering the patient information in the patient database when there is no corresponding patient as a result of the search. The present invention solves the above-mentioned problem, comprising: a patient registration unit that performs registration; and a prescription registration unit that registers, in the prescription database, the prescription data read from the item storage unit for a patient registered in the patient database.

[0005]

DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a configuration of an office computer for calculating a dispensing fee based on a prescription and issuing a receipt. A computer main body 10 including a CPU, a file device 20, and a display device 30 including a CRT or the like
, A keyboard 31 as data input means, and a scanner 32 for reading the contents of the prescription as image data. The file device 20 is constituted by a hard disk device or the like, and includes a patient information database 21 for registering patient information, a prescription database 22 for registering information on medicines dispensed based on prescriptions for each patient, and a prescription database. A format information database 23 in which format information indicating where predetermined items are described is registered, and a drug master in which information such as names, units, drug prices, and the like of drugs required for calculating a dispensing fee and issuing a claim is registered. And a database 24.

FIG. 2 shows an example of a record configuration of the patient information database 21 and the prescription database 22. The patient information database 21 shown in FIG. 3A includes a unique patient code for each patient, the name of the patient, the date of birth,
The insurer's number, symbol / number of the medical insurance used by the patient, the classification of the person or family, that is, the dependent, and the telephone number and address of the patient are registered. Of these, each item is described in a prescribed position of the prescription except for the patient code, telephone number and address. Then, the position information is registered in the format information database 23.

In the prescription database 22 shown in FIG. 1B, the patient code, the date of prescription, the name and location of the medical institution that issued the prescription, the name of the responsible physician, and the pharmacist dispensing. The prescription data referred to at the time of the registration is registered. As prescription data, the name of the drug and its 1
It contains the amount of the day and the data indicating how many days should be provided. In addition, data of the calculated dispensing fee is also registered. These are referred to when creating the receipt.
The patient code is used to link with the patient information in the patient information database 21. Except for the patient code, each item is described at a predetermined position on the prescription. Then, the position information is stored in the format information database 2
3 registered.

Returning to FIG. 1, the main body of the computer includes the following processing parts. That is, reference numeral 11 denotes a character recognizing unit which scans the scanner 32 based on the prescription format information stored in the format information database 23.
The character recognition of a predetermined item is performed from the image information fetched and stored in the memory 16, and the result is output to the memory 16. Specifically, there are information on the patient such as the name and the date of birth as described above, information on the medical institution such as the name of the medical institution, and prescription data.

Reference numeral 12 denotes a patient search unit, and a character recognition unit 11
Of the patient information output by the patient information database 21 at least from the patient name and the date of birth.
The database is searched to determine whether or not it is registered in the database. The patient search unit 12 can also use the insurer number or the symbol / number for the search as needed.

Reference numeral 13 denotes a patient registration unit, which stores the patient's name, date of birth, insurer number, symbol / number,
The classification of the person / family and the telephone number and address of the patient input from the keyboard 31 by the operator are registered in the patient information database 21. At that time, a new patient code is generated and registered together.

Reference numeral 14 denotes a prescription registration unit, and the character recognition unit 11
Searches the medicine master database 24 with the medicine name output on the memory 16 and acquires medicine information such as a medicine code and a medicine price. The drug cost is calculated from these and the daily amount or the number of days of the medicine described as the prescription data, and the dispensing fee such as a dispensing technical fee is calculated. Then, these are registered in the prescription database 22 as data for creating a receipt. 15 is a character recognition unit 11 to a prescription registration unit 1
4, a control unit for controlling display, input and output, control of the scanner 32, and input / output with the file device 20.
Reference numeral 6 denotes a memory for temporarily storing data.

Next, the operation of the embodiment will be described with reference to FIG. When the patient brings the prescription to the dispensing pharmacy, the pharmacy operator sets the prescription on the scanner 32 and instructs the keyboard 31 to read the prescription. The control unit 15 controls the scanner 32 in response thereto, causes the prescription image data to be read, and controls the storage in the memory 16 (step S31). Next, the character recognizing unit 11 reads out the format information from the format information database 23, and thereby cuts out image information of a predetermined item from the image information of the prescription (S32). And
Character recognition is performed for each item, and the result is stored in a predetermined storage location in the memory 16 (S33). The patient search unit 12 extracts the data of the patient's name and date of birth output from the character recognition unit 11 to the memory 16 (S3).
4) Search the patient information database 21 (S3)
5). If there is a corresponding patient, the patient code is obtained (S36; Yes). If there is no corresponding patient, a screen for patient registration is displayed on the display device 30 (S37). Thus, the operator inputs the patient's address, telephone number, and the like as necessary. The patient registration unit 13
The patient information combining the data output by the character recognition unit 11 and the data input by the operator is registered in the patient information database 21 (S38). At that time, a new patient code is generated and registered together with the data of the patient.

Next, the prescription registration unit 14 acquires the name of the medical institution, the location, and the name of the insured physician from the predetermined items on the memory 16 (S39), and registers them in the prescription database 22 (S40). At that time, the previously acquired patient code is also registered. Then, prescription data including the name of the drug, the amount thereof, and the number of days to be administered are obtained in the prescription description column of the prescription (S41), and the drug master database 24 is searched for the drug name to obtain the drug information (S41). S42) and
The dispensing fee is calculated (S43) and registered in the prescription database 22 together with the prescription data (S44).

As described above, according to the present embodiment, the prescription data is read by character recognition from the prescription brought by the patient, and is registered in the prescription database 22. When the patient information such as the patient's name and the insurer number is not registered, the information about the patient read from the prescription is registered in the patient information database 21. Is significantly reduced.

[0015]

According to the present invention, since the prescription information and the patient information such as the patient's name and date of birth are input by recognizing the contents of the prescription, the operator conventionally refers to the prescription. However, the amount of work can be significantly reduced as compared with the case where the input is performed from the keyboard.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram illustrating a configuration of an office computer according to an embodiment.

FIG. 2 is a diagram showing a record configuration of a patient information database and a prescription database of the embodiment.

FIG. 3 is a flowchart showing the operation of the embodiment.

[Explanation of symbols]

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 10 Computer main body 11 Character recognition part 12 Patient search part 13 Patient registration part 14 Prescription registration part 15 Control part 16 Memory 20 File device 21 Patient information database 22 Prescription database 23 Format information database 24 Drug master database 30 Display device
31 Keyboard 32 Scanner

 ────────────────────────────────────────────────── ─── Continuation of the front page (72) Inventor Norifumi Ikuta 2-5-5 Keihanhondori, Moriguchi-shi, Osaka F-term in Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd. 5B064 AA01 CA04 CA08 DA32

Claims (4)

[Claims] 1. An apparatus for inputting prescription data for preparing a dispensing remuneration claim statement, a format storage means for storing format information of a prescription, and an image reading device for taking in the description content of the prescription as image information. Means, character recognition means for recognizing and outputting a character string of a predetermined item from a predetermined position of the prescription based on the format information and the image information, wherein the item includes prescription data consisting of a drug name, a quantity and a number of days Item storage means for temporarily storing a character string output by the character recognition means for each item, a patient database for registering patient information, and prescription data for dispensing reward request registered in the patient database. A prescription database to be registered for each patient, and the predetermined items include patient information including a patient's name, date of birth, and insurance information. A search means for searching the patient database by at least a name and a date of birth in the patient information stored in the item storage means; and A patient registration unit that reads the patient information from the item storage unit and registers the patient information in the patient database; and a prescription that registers the prescription data read from the item storage unit in the prescription database for the patient registered in the patient database. A prescription information input device comprising: a registration unit. 2. The prescribed item output by the character recognizing means further includes a name of a medical institution and a name of an insured doctor, and the prescription registration means stores the name of the medical institution and the name of the insured doctor in the prescription database. 2. The prescription information input device according to claim 1, wherein the information is further registered. 3. The patient information output by the character recognizing means includes a patient name, a date of birth, an insurer number, an insurance symbol number, and a classification of a person or a dependent person. 2. The prescription information input device according to claim 1, wherein said patient information is read from said item storage means and registered in said patient database. 4. The patient registration means for displaying an input screen for inputting a patient's address and telephone number, and further registering the input address and telephone number in the patient database. Or the prescription information input device according to claim 3.