JP2003245328A - Administration of medicine and management system for medication - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a management system for medicine administration and medication which serves to prevent medical accidents due to human mistakes in medicine administration, medication or the like. <P>SOLUTION: Bar code images representing prescriptions IDs attached to medicines intended for administration or medication are read out by bar code readers 5 included in cellular terminals 1 to be transmitted to a server 2 and prescription data corresponding to the prescription IDs stored and preserved by the server 2 are transmitted to the cellular phone terminals 1. Both of the bar code images representing patient IDs of patients receiving dosage or medication and bar code images representing the prescription IDs attached to the medicines intended for medicine administration or medication are read out to be transmitted to the server 2, and the prescription IDs corresponding to the patient IDs read out are read out of the prescription IDs stored and preserved by the server 2, compared with the prescription IDs previously read out to determine whether the both coincide or not. The results are transmitted to the cellular phone terminals 1. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2003,JPO

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention supports the functions of a nurse who administers a drug to a patient and a pharmacist who administers a drug to prevent medical accidents due to human error such as erroneous administration or erroneous administration. The present invention relates to a drug administration / medication management system, which is useful for preventing the above-mentioned problems and can enhance the patient's confidence in medical care and nursing.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, based on a prescription issued by a doctor, a pharmacist or the like dispenses various drugs and a nurse or the like administers the drug to the patient, or a pharmacist or the like administers the drug to the patient. The prescription specifies the usage, volume, etc. of various drugs, and the nurse or pharmacist must appropriately administer or administer the drug according to the prescription.

However, in a large-scale medical institution, or even in a relatively small-scale medical institution, the number of patients is extremely large depending on the time of day, so that each patient such as a nurse or pharmacist is in charge. Since the number is large and the burden per person may be excessive, there is a risk of human error such as incorrect administration or incorrect administration.

On the other hand, when a plurality of nurses and pharmacists are in charge of one patient, it is common to carry out prescription-based paper or verbal transfer. Since the transfer may not be performed reliably, there is a possibility that human error such as erroneous administration or erroneous administration may occur in the same manner as above. Since such a human error may lead to a medical accident involving the life of a patient in some cases, it is strongly desired to prevent it.

Further, although medication guidance is given at the time of administration or administration, nurses and pharmacists need to know information on various types of medications, and medication instruction also takes into consideration past administration / administration information and side effect information. If the burden on the person in charge becomes large, there is a possibility that mistakes will occur or that sufficient instruction cannot be given.

[0006]

The present invention has been made to solve such conventional problems, and supports the functions of a nurse who administers a drug to a patient and a pharmacist who administers a drug. However, it is useful for preventing medical accidents due to human error such as incorrect administration or incorrect administration, and can increase the patient's confidence in medical care and nursing.
An object is to provide a medication management system.

[0007]

In order to achieve the above object, the present invention is a drug administration / medication management system comprising a bar code reader and a server, wherein the server has a prescription ID and a prescription ID. The prescription ID and the prescription data associated with the prescription data are stored and stored, and the bar code reading device is installed in a mobile terminal and reads a bar code image that encodes the prescription ID attached to a drug to be administered or dosed to a server. The server analyzes the transmitted barcode image, extracts the barcode, reads the prescription data based on the prescription ID corresponding to the extracted barcode, and reads the read prescription data from the mobile terminal. It is characterized in that it is transmitted to.

According to the invention, prescription data including a drug name, an example, drug efficacy, side effect information, etc. corresponding to a prescription ID attached by a barcode to a drug to be administered or administered is transmitted from the server to the mobile terminal. Since it is sent to the user, it can be confirmed whether the medicine to be administered or administered matches the prescription based on the prescription data stored and stored in the server. Etc. can be prevented.

The term "attached to a medicine" as used above includes not only the case where a medicine is directly attached with a bar code but also the case where the medicine is indirectly attached to a package, a container or the like of the medicine.

[0010] Preferably, the server further stores and saves patient data associated with the prescription ID, reads out target patient data based on the prescription ID, and transmits the patient data to the mobile terminal.

According to such an invention, it is confirmed whether or not the medicine to be administered or administered is in conformity with the prescription, and
Patient I for the patient stored in the server
D, patient name, gender, date of birth, past medication status, side effect information, etc. can be referred to, so it is possible to provide detailed medication instruction such as considering side effects. it can.

The present invention also provides a drug administration / medication management system comprising a bar code reader and a server,
A patient ID and a prescription ID associated with the patient ID are stored and stored in the server, and the barcode reading device is provided in a mobile terminal and codes the patient ID of a patient to be administered or administered. The first barcode image and the second barcode image obtained by encoding the prescription ID attached to the drug to be administered or administered are read and transmitted to the server, and the server transmits the first transmitted barcode. The barcode image and the second barcode image are analyzed to extract the first barcode and the second barcode, respectively, and the patient ID corresponding to the first barcode among the extracted barcodes. The prescription ID is read based on, and the read prescription ID is compared with the prescription ID corresponding to the second barcode of the extracted barcodes to determine whether the two match. And transmitting the result to the mobile terminal.

According to such an invention, since it is judged whether or not the drug to be administered or administered is the drug prescribed for the target patient, erroneous administration or erroneous administration due to misdelivery etc. Can be prevented.

[0014] Preferably, the server further comprises the patient I
The patient data associated with D is stored and stored, and when it is determined in the determination that the prescription IDs match, the patient data is read out based on the patient ID and transmitted to the mobile terminal.

According to such an invention, since it is possible to refer to the data regarding the patient only after confirming that the drug to be administered or administered is the drug prescribed to the target patient, side effects It is possible to give detailed medication instruction such as taking into consideration.

In the above invention, the mobile terminal is a mobile phone or PHS used in a public communication line,
The bar code reading device is preferably an image pickup device integrated with the mobile terminal.

According to this invention, since a general-purpose mobile phone or PHS integrated with the image pickup device can be used as a mobile terminal, the system can be constructed at a lower cost.

[0018]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the accompanying drawings.

FIG. 1 is a schematic configuration diagram of a drug administration / medication management system according to an embodiment of the first invention. As shown in FIG. 1, the drug administration / medication management system according to the present embodiment includes a mobile phone 1 serving as a mobile terminal equipped with a barcode reader and a server 2, and wireless data transmission between them. You can send and receive. Wireless data transmission / reception is performed via the base station 4 connected to the public communication line 3.

The mobile phone 1 includes a camera 5 as an image pickup device integrated with the mobile phone 1, for example, a bar code 7 attached to a medicine bag 6 shown in FIG. It is transmitted to the server 2 via the base station 4. The mobile phone 1 also includes an image display unit 8 and can display the data sent from the server 2.

The data of the bar code image read by the mobile phone 1 is stored in the memory of the mobile phone 1 and then transmitted to the server as an attached file of a mail. Similarly,
The data stored and stored in the server is also transmitted from the server to the mobile phone 1 as an attachment file of the mail.

Since the camera 5 can read the bar code 7 in a non-contact manner, there is no fear that the bar code print portion will be contaminated at the time of reading, and there are curved parts such as ampoules and bottles, and irregularities such as medicine bags and medicine packages. The barcode attached to the surface can also be easily read.

The server 2 comprises a control unit 9, a hard disk 10, a data input / output unit 11, a display 12 and the like. The hard disk 10 stores and stores a prescription ID and prescription data associated with the prescription ID. Has been done.

As shown in FIG. 2, the controller 9 controls the CPU 13
The memory 14 and the like are provided, and the function of analyzing the barcode image sent from the mobile phone 1 and extracting the corresponding data is provided. Specifically, after the width and interval of each bar are obtained from the bar code image by image analysis, the data is extracted by a known decoding method.

Further, the control unit 9 reads out desired data from the data stored and stored in the hard disk 10,
It can be transmitted to the mobile phone 1 via the data input / output unit 11.

Next, the operation of the drug administration / medication management system according to the first embodiment of the present invention will be described more specifically.

At the time of administering the drug to the patient, the camera 5 captures a bar code image which encodes the prescription ID attached to the drug bag, the drug package, the ampoule, the label attached to the bottle and the like. Next, this image is transmitted to the server 2. The server 2 analyzes the barcode image, extracts the prescription ID, and reads the prescription data corresponding to the extracted prescription ID.

The read prescription data is transmitted to the mobile phone 1 and displayed on the display section 8 thereof, so that the person who administers the drug or the person who administers the drug compares the actual drug to prescribe the dispensed drug. You can easily check whether it is the street.

It should be noted that the server 2 may be configured to store and save patient data in association with the prescription ID. In this case, if the patient data is read out based on the prescription ID and transmitted to the mobile phone 1, the drug administrator or the drug administrator can perform detailed medication instruction while considering the side effects while referring to the patient data. .

Next, a drug administration / medication management system according to an embodiment of the second invention will be described. The device configuration of the drug administration / medication management system according to the present invention is the first
Since it is similar to that of the embodiment of the present invention, it will be described with reference to FIGS. 1 and 2.

In the present embodiment, the data stored and stored in the hard disk 10 is different from that of the first invention, and the patient ID and the prescription ID associated with the patient ID are stored and stored.

In addition to the functions of the control unit 9 of the first embodiment, the control unit 9 of the present embodiment has desired data read from the data stored and stored in the hard disk 10 and the mobile phone 1. It has a function of determining whether or not the data corresponding to the bar code image sent to the server 2 by reading is matched and transmitting the result to the mobile phone 1.

Next, the operation of the drug administration / medication management system according to one embodiment of the second invention will be described more specifically.

When administering a drug to a patient, the camera 5 captures a bar code image encoding a patient ID for identifying the patient on the bedside of the patient or on the wristband of the patient, and the server 5 takes the image. send. At the same time, as in the case of the embodiment of the first invention, the same mobile phone 1 is used to capture a bar code image encoding a prescription ID attached to a label attached to a medicine bag, medicine package, ampoule, bottle, or the like. And send it to the server 2.

The server 2 reads the prescription ID corresponding to the patient ID read by the mobile phone 1 from the hard disk 10, compares it with the prescription ID separately read by the mobile phone 1 and sent to the server 2, and carries the result. It is transmitted to the telephone 1 and displayed on the screen 8 by characters or the like. This allows the administrator or the pharmacist to easily confirm whether or not the drug has been delivered to the patient.

Further, it is possible to store the patient data in the server 2 in association with the patient ID. In this case, if the prescription IDs match as a result of the comparison determination, the server 2 reads the patient IDs read in the above operation from the patient data stored in association with the patient IDs.
By reading out the information related to (1) and transmitting it to the mobile phone 1, the drug administrator or the drug administrator can perform detailed medication instruction such as considering side effects while referring to the patient data.

In the drug administration / medication management system according to the above-described first and second embodiments of the present invention, the record of administration or administration of the drug or the drug on the hard disk 10 of the server 2 (date and time, administrator or administrator). , Content and amount of administration or dosing), the data can be used for daily management.

At this time, as the date and time, the date and time data of the clock in the server 2 may be used, and the date and time of data transmission and reception may be recorded as the date and time of administration or administration. For the input of data regarding the administrator or the drug administrator to the system, a bar code image for personal identification is attached to the wrist band of the person, and the bar code image is read by the camera 5 and sent to the server 2. If this is done, it can be easily implemented. Furthermore, it is also possible to take a photograph of the face of the administration person or the medication person with the camera 5 and use it as data of the administration person or the medication person. The content and amount of administration or administration can be left by recording the prescription data transmitted by the server 2 to the mobile phone 1 in the server 2. Further, the above data input may be performed by key input of the mobile phone 1.

[0039]

As described above, according to the medicine administration / medication management system of the first invention, the bar code image coded with the prescription ID attached to the medicine to be administered or administered is displayed. The prescription data corresponding to the prescription ID is read from the prescription data stored and stored in the server and transmitted to the mobile terminal. This allows
Whether or not the medicine to be administered or administered matches the prescription can be confirmed based on the prescription data stored and stored in the server, and it is possible to prevent erroneous administration or erroneous administration due to misdelivery. it can.

According to the drug administration / medication management system of the second aspect of the present invention, the bar code image encoding the patient ID of the patient to be administered or administered and the drug to be administered or administered are added. The bar code image obtained by coding the prescription ID is read by a mobile terminal equipped with a bar code reading device and is transmitted to the server together. The server stores a patient ID and a prescription ID, reads a prescription ID corresponding to the read patient ID, compares the read prescription ID with the read prescription ID, and determines whether the two match. Send the result to the mobile device. As a result, it is determined whether or not the drug to be administered or dosed is the drug prescribed to the target patient, and thus it is possible to prevent erroneous administration or erroneous drug administration due to a dispensing error or the like.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a schematic configuration diagram of a drug administration / medication management system according to an embodiment of the first invention.

FIG. 2 is a diagram showing a configuration of a control unit.

FIG. 3 is a diagram showing an example of a medicine bag with a barcode.

[Explanation of symbols]

1 mobile phone 2 servers 7 barcode

Claims (5)

[Claims] 1. A drug administration / medication management system comprising a bar code reader and a server, wherein the server stores and stores a prescription ID and prescription data associated with the prescription ID. The code reading device is provided in a mobile terminal, reads a bar code image encoding a prescription ID attached to a drug to be administered or administered, and transmits the bar code image to a server, and the server transmits the transmitted bar code image. A drug administration / medication management system, which analyzes and extracts a barcode, reads prescription data based on a prescription ID corresponding to the extracted barcode, and transmits the read prescription data to a mobile terminal. 2. The server further stores and stores patient data associated with the prescription ID, extracts patient data based on the prescription ID, and transmits the patient data to a mobile terminal. Drug administration / medication management system. 3. A drug administration / medication management system comprising a bar code reader and a server, wherein the server stores and stores a patient ID and a prescription ID associated with the patient ID. The code reading device is provided in a mobile terminal, and encodes a first barcode image that encodes a patient ID of a patient to be administered or dosed, and a prescription ID attached to a drug to be administered or dosed. The second barcode image is read and transmitted to the server, and the server analyzes the transmitted first barcode image and the transmitted second barcode image, and respectively analyzes the first barcode and the second barcode image. The second barcode is extracted, and the patient I corresponding to the first barcode of the extracted barcodes
The prescription ID is read based on D, the read prescription ID is compared with the prescription ID corresponding to the second barcode of the extracted barcodes, and it is determined whether or not the two match. A drug administration / medication management system, characterized in that the information is transmitted to a mobile terminal. 4. The server further stores and stores patient data associated with the patient ID, and when it is determined that the prescription IDs match each other in the determination,
The drug administration / medication management system according to claim 3, wherein the patient data is read out based on the patient ID and transmitted to a mobile terminal. 5. The mobile terminal is a mobile phone or a PHS used in a public communication line, and the barcode reading device is an imaging device integrated with the mobile terminal. The drug administration / medication management system according to 1, 2, 3, or 4.