JP2001357133A - Drug price settlement system and device, storage medium, and drug price settlement method - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a drug price settlement system and device, a storage medium, and a drug price settlement method which improve convenience to sellers and buyers of drugs by accurately and speedily settling the price of the prescribed drugs with simple constitution. SOLUTION: This system is equipped with at least one medium 1 storing information regarding a prescribed issued at a clinic 10 where the patient saw a doctor and are or more drug price settlement devices 21 which read the information regarding the prescription out of the medium 1, detect the drugs used for the prescription and settle the price for the detected drugs.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a drug price adjustment system, a drug price adjustment device, a storage medium, and a drug price adjustment method which are applied to payment in the purchase and sale of prescriptions prescribed at a clinic.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, a person who has been examined at a doctor's office (refers to a hospital or other medical institution) receives, on paper or the like, information on a prescription prescribing a drug suitable for the examination.
By presenting this information to a pharmacy or the like, a medicine corresponding to the prescription is obtained.

That is, a medicine prescribed in a clinic is not provided on the spot, but is prepared and provided in a pharmacy located at a location physically distant from the clinic, and a payment for payment of the medicine is performed. .

[0004]

However, in the case of the above-described prior art, the following problems have occurred. In a conventional pharmacy, a prescription was submitted to start dispensing a drug, and after the dispensing of the drug was completed, the drug fee was settled upon receipt of the dispensed drug.

[0005] However, in a crowded pharmacy, a queue of people is in a queue, so that a patient who is consulted often comes to get a medicine after submitting a prescription.

[0006] At this time, the medicine may be prepared but the patient may not be able to get it. In this case, the medicine price may not be adjusted, and the medicine may not be used and may be wasted.

In the case of a general hospital, there has been an example in which a drug price is settled in advance and a medicine is prepared, but this has been realized by an expensive system such as connecting a settlement window and a pharmacy by a communication infrastructure.

The present invention has been made in view of the above circumstances, and an object of the present invention is to provide a medicine seller and purchaser by accurately and quickly paying out a prescribed medicine with an inexpensive configuration. It is an object of the present invention to provide a drug price adjustment system, a drug price adjustment device, a storage medium, and a drug price adjustment method which are more convenient for the user.

[0009]

In order to achieve the above object, a drug price adjustment system according to the present invention comprises at least one storage medium for storing information relating to a prescription issued at a consulted clinic; There is provided at least one or more drug price adjusting means for reading information on a prescription from a storage medium, detecting a drug used for the prescription, and adjusting the price of the detected drug.

[0010] Further, the storage medium includes an IC card.

[0011] Further, the drug price adjusting means issues a prescription instruction of the detected drug after the payment of the drug is completed.

[0012] Further, the storage medium stores information corresponding to cash and balance information used to settle the price of medicine.
The drug price adjustment means updates the balance information when adjusting the price of the drug.

[0013] Further, when the user of the storage medium pays cash in advance, information corresponding to the paid cash is stored in the storage medium as the balance information.

Further, the balance information is classified for each pharmacy that sells the medicine.

The pharmacy can use only the balance information classified as its own balance information among the balance information.

[0016] Further, the drug price settlement means also performs settlement of goods and services handled in the pharmacy.

In addition, the storage medium stores information for an expiration date of the information on the prescription, and the drug price settlement unit reads the information on the prescription from the storage medium after the expiration date has passed. If so, the information on the read prescription is invalidated.

Further, there is at least one user who uses the storage medium, and the storage medium divides at least one of information to be stored for each user who uses the storage medium.

Further, the information classified for each user includes the balance information.

Further, the information stored in the storage medium includes information on the clinic where the consultation has been made.

Further, the information stored in the storage medium includes personal information of a person who has undergone the examination.

Further, the storage medium causes the drug price adjustment means to read information stored in a non-contact state.

Further, the storage medium is a portable storage medium.

Further, the drug price adjustment device according to the present invention reads out information on the prescription from a storage medium for storing information on the prescription issued at the consulted clinic, detects a drug used for the prescription, and Settle the price of the detected drug.

Further, the storage medium according to the present invention is a storage medium in which information on a prescription issued in a consulted clinic is stored. The information on the prescription is read from the storage medium and used for the prescription. Detect the drug,
It is used for drug price adjustment means for adjusting the price of the detected drug.

Further, the drug price adjustment method according to the present invention includes a step of storing information relating to a prescription issued in a consulted clinic in a storage medium, a step of reading information stored in the storage medium, and a step of reading the information. Detecting a medicine to be used for the prescription based on the obtained information, and adjusting the price of the detected medicine.

In other words, according to the present invention, since the drug price adjustment means requests the dispensing of the drug and the drug price adjustment ends at the same time, there is no disadvantage to the drug seller (pharmacy), and the recording medium such as an IC card is used. The system is inexpensive because it is performed only through the mediation of media, and it is possible to provide a system that can be used many times, is economical, and has a simple and independent configuration that does not require a communication infrastructure.

Further, since the preparation of the medicine is instructed after the settlement, the useless preparation of the medicine due to the absence of the medicine buyer can be reduced.

For a user of a storage medium (eg, a patient), a deposit can be made in advance at a corresponding pharmacy,
There is also an advantage that payment can be simplified because payment can be made instantly without cash.

Further, the storage medium stores balance information, information on the clinic that has undergone medical examination, personal information of the person who has undergone medical examination, and the like. The information is further divided into pharmacies and individuals. Therefore, convenience can be further improved. Here, that the information is classified means that the information is stored in the storage medium in association with each key (for example, an individual or a pharmacy) to be classified.

Further, the products and services sold at the pharmacy can be provided based on the balance information stored in the storage medium, and the convenience is further improved.

The storage medium stores information on the expiration date of the information on the prescription (for example, the expiration date and the number of days elapsed since the prescription was prescribed). Based on this information, the information on the expiration date of the prescription is stored. Since the information, that is, the validity / invalidity of drug sales is determined, the safety of drug sales can be further improved.

The storage medium may be a non-contact type, a portable type, or a combination thereof for the drug price adjustment means, so that the convenience can be further improved.

[0034]

Preferred embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail below with reference to the accompanying drawings. However, the dimensions of the components described in this embodiment,
The materials, shapes, relative arrangements, and the like are not intended to limit the scope of the present invention only to them unless otherwise specified.

In the following drawings, the same members as those described in the above-mentioned drawings are denoted by the same reference numerals. In addition, according to the description of each embodiment of the drug price adjustment system according to the present invention described below, the drug price adjustment device according to the present invention,
The description of each embodiment of the storage medium and the drug price adjustment method is also used.

(First Embodiment) First, a first embodiment of a drug price adjustment system according to the present invention will be described with reference to FIG. FIG. 1 is a system configuration diagram of a first embodiment of a drug price adjustment system according to the present invention.

In FIG. 1, a clinic 10 and a pharmacy 20 exist. The clinic 10 here is assumed to be, for example, a private practitioner.

The clinic 10 has a PC (personal co
mputer, the same applies hereinafter. 1) In addition to the printer 12 for printing the prescription and the like, a reader / writer 13 for reading / writing information of a storage medium (hereinafter, referred to as a medium) 1 constituted by, for example, an IC force.
And

The medium 1 shown in FIG. 1 is preferably constituted by an IC card as described above. This IC card generally has a CPU, a ROM and a RAM.

After receiving the medical examination, the patient goes to the pharmacy with the media 1 on which data such as prescription information is written.

The pharmacy 20, which receives a dispensing / dispensing request, reads the media 1 brought by the patient by the drug price adjusting device 21 as the drug price adjusting means according to the present invention, and obtains prescription information.

The drug price adjustment device 21 in the pharmacy 20 is connected to a PC 22 for searching a drug price database and the like, and a printer 23 for printing drug information and the like, and transmits a drug preparation instruction to a pharmacist and searches for a drug price.・ Perform payment. The prepared medicine 2 is delivered to the patient.

Next, the data structure of the medium 1 shown in FIG. 1 will be described with reference to FIGS. 2 to 7 are conceptual diagrams of the data structure of the medium 1 shown in FIG. In the case where there are a plurality of users who use the medium 1, the information stored in the medium 1 described below may be stored in one medium by being divided for each user.

First, the storage area in the ROM or RAM of the medium 1 is a hospital information area 10 as shown in FIG.
1, personal information area 102, prescription information area 103,
It comprises a balance information area 104. That is, hospital data information, personal information, prescription information, and balance information are stored in these respective areas.

Next, the hospital information area 10 shown in FIG.
1 is shown in FIG. The information in this area is newly generated when a patient is newly visited at a hospital. In the case of revisit, the date is stored in the date 112 and read out by the pharmacy.

As shown in FIG. 3, the information stored in the hospital information area includes a hospital name 110 (prescription issuing hospital name), a hospital TEL # 111 (prescription issuing hospital telephone number), and a date 112 ( The date of the issuance of the prescription) and other information 113 (for example, information on a hospital when consulting time).

Next, information stored in the personal information area shown in FIG. 2 will be described with reference to FIG.

The information stored in this personal information area is
This information is newly generated when a new patient is consulted at a hospital, is written at the first consultation at the clinic, and is read at the pharmacy.

As shown in FIG. 4, this area includes
Name 120 (patient's name), age (patient's date of birth) 1
21 and other information 122 (a TEL # of a patient, initial consultation data, etc.) are stored.

Next, information stored in the prescription information area shown in FIG. 2 will be described with reference to FIG.

The information stored in this area is newly generated when a new patient is consulted at a hospital, erased (overwritten) by the clinic, read by the pharmacy, and indicates whether or not a prescription is used. FLG is written.

As shown in FIG. 5, in this area,
FLG130 (whether or not it was prepared using the prescription), date 131 (date when the prescription was issued at the clinic),
Prescription data 132 (prescription details) is stored.

The date 131 functions as information relating to the expiration date of the prescription information. For example, the drug price adjustment device 21 compares the date 131 with the date when the medium 1 is being read, and checks the validity of the prescription information. Invalidity may be determined, or a period elapsed from the date 131 may be calculated to determine whether the prescription information is valid or invalid.

Next, information stored in the balance information area shown in FIG. 2 will be described with reference to FIG.

The information stored in this area is newly generated when a new patient receives a medical examination at the hospital, and is initialized by the clinic at the first medical examination.

As shown in FIG. 6, in this area,
The pharmacy information area 140 and other information 141 (some information about the balance) are stored, and the pharmacy information area 140 is divided for each pharmacy, and writing and reading are performed for each pharmacy. In other words, the information about the balance is classified for each pharmacy,
Each pharmacy says it can only access its own balance information. Of course, the balance information may not be divided for each pharmacy, but may use common balance information for each pharmacy.

Next, information stored in the pharmacy information area shown in FIG. 6 will be described with reference to FIG.

In this area, pharmacy ID 150 (unique number for each pharmacy, pharmacy name and pharmacy TEL #), date 15
1 (final settlement date: the most recent settlement date at the pharmacy),
The balance 152 (remaining amount) and other information 153 are stored.

(Operation of Reader / Writer) Next, the operation of the reader / writer 13 shown in FIG. 1 will be described with reference to FIG. FIG. 8 shows the reader / writer 1 shown in FIG.
3 is a flowchart of the operation of FIG.

This process is started when a receipt is created in the normal operation of the clinic and prescription data is created.

The reader / writer 13 first reads the medium 1 (S10), determines whether the medium has been initialized (S11), and if it has been initialized, proceeds to step S1.
Transfer control to 3. Step S if not initialized
Initialized at 12.

The initialization is an operation for initializing all the areas shown in the above-mentioned media data structure. Subsequently, in step 13, the information of the doctor's office consulted is written in the hospital information area.

Subsequently, the prescription data of the patient is written into the prescription information area by resetting the FLG (S14).

Here, in the case of a medium that has already been used, the FLG in the prescription information area is set.
This is deleted and overwritten. The medium on which the information has been written is ejected (S15), and delivered to the patient.

For example, the written prescription information area is F
LG = 0, date = date, prescription data = Sdata
And Here, an example is given in which an individual uses only one media. However, the media may be collectively managed in a certain group, for example, for several families.

In this case, at the time of initialization, a personal information area and a prescription information area are created for several persons, and prescription information data is also written for each individual.

(Operation of Drug Price Adjustment Apparatus) Next, the operation of the drug price adjustment apparatus 21 shown in FIG. 1 will be described with reference to FIG. FIG. 9 is a flowchart of the operation of the drug price adjustment device 21 shown in FIG.

This operation is started when the patient inserts the medium 1 into the drug price adjustment device 21 at the pharmacy 20.

First, the drug price adjustment device 21 reads the medium 1 (S20), extracts information stored in the prescription information area (S21), and checks whether or not there is prescription information (S22).

If there is no prescription information, an error is displayed (S29), and control is passed to step.

If there is prescription information, a drug price search in step 23 is performed. This drug price search may be manually performed, or may be automatically performed by the drug price adjustment device 21 by searching from a database of a pharmacy. Here, the drug price is, for example, drug price = y
Suppose it was a circle.

In step S24, it is checked whether or not a drug corresponding to the corresponding prescription exists in the pharmacy. If not, control is passed to the error display of (S29).

If there is a medicine corresponding to the prescription, the reconciliation process is performed in step 25. Then, it is confirmed whether or not the settlement is completed (S26), and if completed, a dispensing / dispensing instruction is performed (S27). This instruction may include, for example, printing out the prescription information to a place where the pharmacist works or transferring the prescription information to the pharmacist's PC. Thereafter, in step 28, the medium is ejected, and the process ends.

Next, the settlement process in step 25 shown in FIG. 9 will be further described with reference to FIG. FIG.
0 is a flowchart of the settlement process in step 25 shown in FIG.

In the operation shown in FIG.
Then, the balance information area of the media is extracted, and it is confirmed whether or not there is a main pharmacy ID, that is, whether the pharmacy has been used even once (S31). If there is, control is passed to step 32. If not, the pharmacy information area is initialized (S3
2). Here, the pharmacy ID, date set, and balance are cleared to zero.

Subsequently, the difference is calculated using the drug price y and the balance (S33). The amount is displayed (S34),
It prompts the patient to pay (S35). This is a normal payment operation.

If there is a fishing amount from the difference and the price paid by the patient, the processing is performed (S36). In step 37,
If there is no fishing request, the balance information area is updated using the balance, and the processing ends. Step 3 if you have fishing requirements
Refund the fishing at 8 and move on to step 37.

Next, the case of depositing money in the medium in advance will be described with reference to the flowchart shown in FIG.
FIG. 11 is a flowchart when depositing in advance into the medium 1 shown in FIG.

In this operation, first, the medium is read (S40), and the balance information area is extracted (S41).
It is confirmed whether there is a pharmacy ID, that is, whether an area has already been secured (S42). If there is, control is passed directly to step S44, and if not, the pharmacy information area is initialized (S43). In this initialization, the pharmacy ID, date set, and balance are cleared to zero.

Next, at step 44, the current balance is displayed.
The deposit processing of step 45 is performed. This depositing process is a normal depositing operation, and the amount specified by coins or bills is to be deposited.

The amount is written in the balance information area updating process (S46) of the balance information area. Finally, the medium is discharged (S47), and the processing ends.

As described above, in the first embodiment of the drug price adjustment system according to the present invention, various kinds of information are stored in the media 1 in the clinic 10, and the patient carrying the media 1 is used by the drug price adjustment device 21 in the pharmacy 20. In the above, since the pharmacy 20 issues a dispensing instruction after the payment of the drug price according to the prescription, it is possible to avoid a situation in which the dispensed medicine is not paid.

Further, the expiration date of the prescription, the information of the doctor's office, and the like are stored in the medium 1, so that the convenience is further improved.

Further, since the balance can be preliminarily transferred to the medium 1 as electronic data, the settlement process can be performed without preparing cash one by one, and the convenience is further improved.

(Second Embodiment) Next, a second embodiment of the drug price adjustment system according to the present invention will be described with reference to FIG. FIG. 12 is a partial system configuration diagram of a second embodiment of the drug price adjustment system according to the present invention.

This embodiment differs from the first embodiment only in the configuration of the drug price adjustment device.
The information stored in the medium 1 and the operation of writing information to the medium 1 shown in FIGS. 2 to 7 are the same, and the description using the flowcharts of FIGS. 8 to 11 is the same. , And a detailed description thereof will be omitted.

In this embodiment, the reader / writer 31, the PC 32, and the cash register 33 provided in the pharmacy 30 perform the operation of the drug price adjustment device shown in FIG.

The reader / writer 31 reads the medium 1 brought by the patient, writes the balance, obtains the prescription information of the patient in addition to the usual money payment processing.

A PC 32 is used to search a drug price database or the like. The PC 32 is connected to a printer 34 that prints prescription descriptions and the like, and instructs a search for a medicine and a payment of a drug price. At the same time, inform the pharmacist of the preparation of the medicine. After the settlement is completed, medicine 2 is prepared and delivered to the patient.

The cash register 33 performs the settlement based on the balance information stored in the medium 1 and, if necessary, the settlement with cash.

Therefore, according to this embodiment, the same effects as those of the first embodiment can be obtained, and a dedicated device such as the drug price adjustment device 21 as in the first embodiment can be used. At first, since the system can be constructed using the general-purpose reader / writer 31, PC 32, or cash register 33, the construction of the system becomes easy.

(Third Embodiment) Next, a third embodiment of the drug price adjustment system according to the present invention will be described with reference to FIG. FIG. 13 is a flowchart of the third embodiment of the drug price adjustment system according to the present invention.

The present embodiment is an embodiment in which a prescription data is used to restrict the sales and dispensing request of a medicine in the sale of the medicine. The configuration and operation of the present embodiment are the same as the configuration and operation of the above-described first and second embodiments except for the points described below.

In the present embodiment, step 41 in FIG.
The following processing is inserted between step and step 42.

In other words, as shown in FIG. 13, this example invalidates a prescription if, for example, two days or more have passed since the prescription was issued.

That is, after step 41, the date in the prescription information area is compared with the current date (S50). If not more than two days have passed, the process returns to step 42 and returns to the processing of FIG.

If two days have elapsed, an error message is displayed (S51), and the prescription information area is updated (S5).
2).

That is, the prescription information area is invalidated by clearing the area corresponding to this date. Finally, the medium is ejected (S53), and the process ends.

As described above, according to the third embodiment of the drug price adjustment system according to the present invention, the same effects as those of the above-described first and second embodiments of the drug price adjustment system according to the present invention are obtained. By clearing the invalid prescription information, it is possible to further improve the safety of drug sales.

However, in each of the above embodiments, only the payment of the drug price is performed based on the information stored in the medium. However, the present invention is not limited to such a case. , Besides reimbursement of medicine price, for example,
Goods and services sold at pharmacies may be settled.

The medium is preferably, for example, a portable medium, but is not limited to such a case. For example, a portable telephone from which data is downloaded can also be used as the medium of the present invention.

In addition to the case where the medium and the drug price adjustment device are in contact with each other to read and write information, the information may be read and written without contact between the medium and the drug price adjustment device.

The number of media and drug price adjustment devices is 1 for each.
The number is not limited to one, and may be any number of at least one or more.

[0104]

As described above, according to the present invention, a system can be constructed independently of a clinic and a pharmacy without using a communication infrastructure. It is possible to provide a system in which payment can be made in a lump, and for the pharmacy side, the drug can be dispensed after the price has been settled. become.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a system configuration diagram of a first embodiment of a drug price adjustment system according to the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a conceptual diagram of a data structure of a medium 1 shown in FIG.

FIG. 3 is a conceptual diagram of a data structure of a medium 1 shown in FIG.

FIG. 4 is a conceptual diagram of a data structure of a medium 1 shown in FIG.

FIG. 5 is a conceptual diagram of a data structure of a medium 1 shown in FIG.

FIG. 6 is a conceptual diagram of a data structure of a medium 1 shown in FIG.

FIG. 7 is a conceptual diagram of a data structure of a medium 1 shown in FIG.

8 is a flowchart of an operation of the reader / writer 13 shown in FIG.

9 is a flowchart of the operation of the drug price adjustment device 21 shown in FIG.

FIG. 10 is a flowchart of a settlement process in step 25 shown in FIG. 9;

FIG. 11 is a flowchart when depositing in advance into the medium 1 shown in FIG. 1;

FIG. 12 is a partial system configuration diagram of a second embodiment of the drug price adjustment system according to the present invention.

FIG. 13 is a flowchart of a third embodiment of the drug price adjustment system according to the present invention.

[Explanation of symbols]

 REFERENCE SIGNS LIST 1 media (storage medium) 2 medicine 10 clinic 11 PC 12 printer 13 reader / writer 20 pharmacy 21 drug price adjustment device 22 PC 23 printer 30 pharmacy 31 reader / writer 32 PC 33 cash register 34 printer 101 hospital information area 102 personal information area 103 Prescription information area 104 Balance information area 110 Hospital name 111 Hospital TEL # 112 Date 113 Others 120 Name 121 Age 122 Others 130 FLG 131 Date 132 Prescription data 140 Pharmacy information area 141 Others 150 Pharmacy ID 151 Date 152 Balance 153 Others

Claims (18)

[Claims] 1. At least one or more storage media for storing information on prescriptions issued at a consulted clinic, reading information on prescriptions from the storage media, detecting a drug used for the prescriptions, Drug price adjustment system comprising at least one or more drug price adjustment means for adjusting the price of a selected drug. 2. The drug price adjustment system according to claim 1, wherein the storage medium includes an IC card. 3. The drug price adjustment system according to claim 1, wherein the drug price adjustment means issues an instruction for prescribing the detected drug after the payment of the drug is completed. 4. The method according to claim 1, wherein the storage medium stores information corresponding to cash and balance information used to settle the price of the medicine, and the drug price adjustment means stores the balance information at the time of adjusting the price of the drug. The drug price adjustment system according to any one of claims 1 to 3, which updates the price. 5. The drug price adjustment system according to claim 4, wherein a user of the storage medium pays cash in advance, and information corresponding to the paid cash is stored in the storage medium as the balance information. 6. The drug price adjustment system according to claim 4, wherein the balance information is classified for each pharmacy that sells the drug. 7. The drug price adjustment system according to claim 6, wherein the pharmacy can use only the balance information classified as its own balance information among the balance information. 8. The drug price adjustment system according to claim 1, wherein the drug price adjustment unit also performs adjustment of goods and services handled in the pharmacy. 9. The storage medium stores information for an expiration date of the information on the prescription, and the drug price adjustment unit reads out the information on the prescription from the storage medium after the expiration date has passed. The drug price adjustment system according to any one of claims 1 to 8, wherein the read information on the prescription is invalidated when the prescription is present. 10. The storage medium according to claim 1, wherein at least one user uses the storage medium, and the storage medium classifies at least one or more of information to be stored for each user using the storage medium. The drug price adjustment system according to any one of the above items. 11. The drug price settlement system according to claim 10, wherein the information classified for each user includes the balance information. 12. The information stored in the storage medium includes information on a clinic that has undergone the consultation.
The drug price adjustment system according to any one of the first to third aspects. 13. The drug price adjustment system according to claim 1, wherein the information stored in the storage medium includes personal information of a person who has undergone the medical examination. 14. The drug price adjustment system according to claim 1, wherein the storage medium causes the drug price adjustment unit to read out information stored in a non-contact state. 15. The drug price adjustment system according to claim 1, wherein the storage medium is a portable storage medium. 16. Reading out information on a prescription from a storage medium for storing information on a prescription issued in a clinic in which a consultation has been made, detecting a drug used for the prescription, and performing payment for the detected drug. NHI price adjustment device. 17. A storage medium storing information on a prescription issued in a doctor's office consulted, reading information on a prescription from the storage medium, detecting a drug used for the prescription, and detecting the detected drug. A storage medium used for drug price adjustment means for adjusting the price of drugs. 18. A step of storing information on a prescription issued in a doctor's office consulted on a storage medium, a step of reading information stored in the storage medium, and using the information on the prescription based on the read information. A drug price adjustment method comprising: a step of detecting a drug; and a step of adjusting the price of the detected drug.