JP2005092694A - Medicine prescription support system and method - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To reduce the errors of mistaking the names of medicines in prescription. <P>SOLUTION: A medicine prescription support method includes an identification information input step (S1) for inputting medicine identification information using a prescription input terminal device; an extraction step for extracting from an image database image information related to medicines corresponding to the information inputted in the identification information input step; a prescription input terminal display step (S2) for displaying in the prescription input terminal device the image information extracted in the extraction step; and a selection and confirmation step (S3) for selecting and confirming the particular medicine among the medicines using the prescription input terminal device after the prescription input terminal display step. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI

Description

  The present invention relates to a support system and a support method for pharmaceutical prescription using a computer used when a doctor prescribes a medicine.

  Conventionally, when a doctor in a hospital prescribes a medicine using a computer, the doctor usually inputs the name of the medicine into the prescription input terminal device in the examination room. The medicine name input and specified in this way is displayed as prescription information, for example, on the terminal device of the dispensing room through a LAN (local area network) in the hospital, and in the dispensing room, the pharmacist displays it on the dispensing room terminal device. Dispensing by looking at the drug name.

  Many drug names are displayed in katakana, and there are many similar and confusing names. For example, “Saxisone ™” and “Saxin ™” are completely different drugs, and “Almar ™” and “Amaril ™” are completely different drugs. For this reason, when a doctor inputs a medicine name into a prescription input terminal device in an examination room, an input error is likely to occur. Moreover, even if the names are similar, drugs with different product names often have completely different efficacy and may cause serious medical accidents.

In addition, when a pharmacist performs dispensing by looking at the drug name displayed on the terminal device in the dispensing room, an error may occur in which the drug name is mistaken and incorrect dispensing is performed.
The object of the present invention is to prevent or suppress mistakes in the drug name in such a dispensing prescription.

  This invention achieves the above-mentioned object, and the invention according to claim 1 is an identification information input step for inputting information for identifying at least one kind of medicine in a prescription input terminal device, and said at least one kind After the extraction step of extracting image information related to the medicine from the image database, the prescription input terminal display step of displaying the image information extracted in the extraction step on the prescription input terminal device, and the prescription input terminal display step A selection confirmation step of selecting and confirming a specific medicine out of the at least one kind of medicine at the prescription input terminal device.

  The invention according to claim 2 is a medicine prescription support method according to claim 1, wherein the dispensing room terminal display step displays the image information related to the specific medicine selected in the selection step on the dispensing room terminal device. It further has these.

  According to a third aspect of the present invention, in the pharmaceutical prescription support method according to the first aspect, the image information related to the specific medicine selected in the selection step is further printed on paper as a part of a prescription. It is characterized by having.

  According to a fourth aspect of the present invention, in the pharmaceutical prescription support method according to any one of the first to third aspects, the information for identifying the at least one kind of medicine is at least a part of a medicine name of the medicine. Features.

  The invention according to claim 5 is the pharmaceutical prescription support method according to any one of claims 1 to 4, wherein the image information related to the medicine includes at least a trademark of the medicine.

  The invention according to claim 6 is the pharmaceutical prescription support method according to claim 5, wherein the image information related to the medicine further includes an appearance of the medicine or the packaging of the medicine.

  The invention according to claim 7 includes a prescription input terminal device including at least an input unit and a display unit, and includes an image database that stores data specifying a medicine in association with image information related to the medicine. The medical prescription support system is configured to extract image information related to the medicine from the image database based on data specifying the medicine input from the input unit and display the image information on the display unit. It is characterized by.

  The invention according to claim 8 is the pharmaceutical prescription support system according to claim 7, and the dispensing room terminal device arranged at a position distant from the prescription input terminal device and an image related to the medicine through a communication line The apparatus further comprises means for sending information from the prescription input terminal device to the dispensing room terminal device, and means for displaying image information related to the medicine on the dispensing room terminal device.

  The invention according to claim 9 is the pharmaceutical prescription support system according to claim 7 or 8, wherein the image database is arranged at a position away from the prescription input terminal device, and the image database and the prescription input terminal device They are characterized by being connected by a communication line.

  According to the tenth aspect of the present invention, there is provided an identification information input means for inputting information for identifying at least one kind of medicine from a computer for supporting medical prescription, and image information related to the at least one kind of medicine from an image database. Extraction means for extracting, display means for displaying image information extracted by the extraction means, and selection means for selecting a specific medicine among the at least one kind of medicine on which the image information is displayed It is a program.

  The invention described in claim 11 is the pharmaceutical prescription support program according to claim 10, wherein the computer is used for medical prescription support, and the image information related to the specific medicine selected by the selection means is stored in the dispensing room terminal. It further functions as a dispensing room terminal display means for displaying on the apparatus.

  According to a twelfth aspect of the present invention, in the pharmaceutical prescription support program according to the tenth aspect, a computer is used for medical prescription support, and the image information related to the specific medicine selected by the selection means is stored in a prescription. It further functions as means for printing on paper as a copy.

  According to this invention, it is possible to suppress mistakes in drug name mistakes in dispensing prescriptions.

Embodiments of a pharmaceutical prescription support system and a pharmaceutical prescription support method using the same according to the present invention will be described below.
FIG. 1 is a block diagram schematically showing an embodiment, in which a prescription input terminal device 4 is arranged in an examination room 2 of a hospital. The prescription input terminal device 4 is, for example, a personal computer, and includes an input keyboard, a mouse, a display unit, and the like. A dispensing room terminal device 8 is arranged in the dispensing room 6 in the same hospital, and the prescription input terminal device 4 and the dispensing room terminal device 8 are connected by a hospital LAN 10. The dispensing room terminal device 8 is, for example, a personal computer, and includes an input keyboard, a mouse, a display unit, and the like.

Usually, a plurality of prescription input terminal devices 4 are connected to one dispensing room terminal device 8. There may be a plurality of both the dispensing room terminal device 8 and the prescription input terminal device 4.
The dispensing chamber 6 is further provided with a dispensing cabinet 14 having a large number of dispensing shelves 12. A medicine is arranged in each dispensing shelf 12, and a trademark for displaying the medicine is displayed for each dispensing shelf 12. The trademark displayed here is not only mere character information (name) but also image (image) information including a typeface and a color specified by a pharmaceutical company, a mark attached thereto, as shown in FIG. . For example, a trademark display part of a medicine package is cut out and pasted at a position where the dispensing shelf 12 is easily visible.

  Next, a processing procedure in the system of FIG. 1 will be described with reference to FIG. First, a doctor inputs, for example, the first three letters of a medicine name into the prescription input terminal device 4 in the examination room 2 (step S1). In response to this input, the trademark images corresponding to the input character strings are displayed as a list on the display unit of the prescription input terminal device 4 (step S2). At this time, the trademark image displayed on the display unit of the prescription input terminal device 4 is the same as the trademark displayed on the dispensing shelf 12, and is not only the character information (name) but also a specific typeface or color. In addition, image information including a mark accompanying this is displayed. For this reason, it is easy to notice an input error compared to the display of a simple drug name (character information). At this time, the medicine name (character information) may be displayed together with the trademark image.

  Next, the doctor selects and confirms a specific medicine from the list using a mouse or the like (step S3). For example, when a plurality of medicine trademarks are displayed in step S2, the doctor selects one medicine trademark he / she wishes to select from among the plurality of trademarks with the mouse and clicks on it. Then, only the trademark selected here is displayed, and confirmation is requested from the computer side. Therefore, the doctor confirms this if there is no mistake in the medicine to be selected. That is, for example, an OK button is clicked on the display screen.

Since the trademark of the medicine is displayed on the display screen during these operations, the doctor is less likely to make an input error than the simple medicine name (character information).
In addition, when there is only one kind of corresponding medicine in step S2, only confirmation of whether or not the displayed medicine is acceptable is made in step S3.

  When the doctor selects and confirms the medicine, information including the trademark image information is sent to the dispensing room terminal device 8 (step S4). Then, the specified trademark image is displayed on the display unit of the dispensing room terminal device 8 (step S5). Also in this case, the medicine name (character information) may be displayed together with the trademark image. Moreover, you may print the trademark image etc. of the pharmaceutical specified as a prescription with the dispensing room terminal device 8 as needed (step S6).

  In the dispensing room, the pharmacist takes out a medicine that matches the trademark from the dispensing shelf 12 while viewing the trademark image displayed on the display unit of the dispensing room terminal device 8 or printed on paper. In this case, since the same trademark as that displayed on the display unit of the dispensing room terminal device 8 is also displayed on the dispensing shelf 12, the work efficiency of taking out the corresponding medicine is increased, and the possibility of error is reduced. .

  In the above description, a trademark image or the like is displayed, but an appearance image of a nude agent or its packaging may be displayed together. Thereby, the possibility that the pharmacist erroneously takes out another medicine can be reduced.

  In the above description, the doctor inputs, for example, the first three letters of the drug name to the prescription input terminal device 4, but the entire drug name may be input. Furthermore, since there are codes such as YJ code, Ministry of Health and Welfare code, and Recep computer code in medicines, these codes may be input.

  Next, a more specific configuration example for realizing the function of the pharmaceutical prescription support system will be described with reference to FIG. That is, the prescription input terminal device 4 is connected to a normal existing electronic medical record database 20. The doctor creates an electronic medical record using the electronic medical record database 20 through the prescription input terminal device 4. In the work, the pharmaceutical prescription support system is used to perform the pharmaceutical prescription. Image data such as a pharmaceutical trademark used at this time is stored in the image database 22 in advance.

  An example of the structure of the image database 22 is shown in FIG. As shown in FIG. 5, the image database 22 has a table structure in which drug names, various codes, and trademark images correspond to each other. In addition, image data of the appearance of medicines and packaging may be included.

  The image database 22 can be arranged in each prescription input terminal device 4, but preferably, the database is integrated so that it can be shared by a plurality of prescription input terminal devices 4. Since new drugs are developed and used one after another in a relatively short cycle, the data is constantly updated and managed.

FIG. 6 shows a configuration example in which the image database 22 of FIGS. 4 and 5 is more easily used on a large scale. In other words, in this example, a common image database 22 is placed outside the hospital and connected through a communication line so that it can be shared by a plurality of hospitals. Currently, there are systems related to medical prescriptions using various computers such as electronic medical records, ordering systems, and receipt computers (receipt computers) for each hospital. By incorporating the above-mentioned drug trademark image from the image database 22 into the drug name or drug code portion handled by these computer systems, it is possible to reduce errors due to the mistake in the drug name.
Further, by placing the image database 22 outside the hospital, it becomes easier for a specialist to perform maintenance and management including updating of the image database 22.

  FIG. 7 is a flowchart showing a processing procedure different from FIG. 3 in the pharmaceutical prescription support system according to the present invention. Here, the same parts as those in FIG. In the processing procedure shown here, the dispensing chamber terminal device 8 in FIGS. 1 and 4 is not used. That is, similarly to the processing procedure of FIG. 3, a doctor inputs a medicine name into the prescription input terminal device 4 in the examination room 2 (step S1). In response to this input, a trademark image corresponding to the corresponding drug name is displayed (step S2). Next, the doctor selects and confirms a specific medicine (step S3). Similar to the processing procedure of FIG. 3, by displaying a trademark image or the like, it is possible to reduce the possibility of a doctor making a mistake in specifying a medicine.

  In the processing procedure of FIG. 7, thereafter, a prescription is printed by the prescription input terminal device 12 (step 10). This prescription includes a trademark image and the like. This prescription is handed to the patient, for example. The patient can receive the medicine by taking the prescription and going to a dispensing room in the hospital or an external pharmacy and presenting the prescription. In this case, since the trademark image is included in the prescription, dispensing errors in the dispensing room / pharmacy can be reduced as compared with the case where the drug name is simply written. Furthermore, it is easy to find dispensing errors from the patient side.

1 is a block diagram schematically showing an embodiment of a pharmaceutical prescription support system according to the present invention. The table | surface which shows the example of the trademark used with the pharmaceutical prescription assistance system of FIG. The flowchart which shows the process sequence in the system of FIG. FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing a more specific configuration example for realizing the functions of the system of FIG. 1. The table | surface which shows the example of the structure of the image database of FIG. The block diagram which shows the utilization example of the image database of FIG. The flowchart which shows the process procedure different from FIG. 3 in the pharmaceutical prescription assistance system which concerns on this invention.

Explanation of symbols

  2 ... Examination room, 4 ... Prescription input terminal device, 6 ... Dispensing room, 8 ... Dispensing room terminal device, 10 ... Hospital LAN, 12 ... Dispensing shelf, 14 ... Dispensing cabinet, 20 ... Electronic medical record database, 22 ... Image database .

Claims (12)

An identification information input step for inputting information for identifying at least one kind of medicine in the prescription input terminal device;
Extracting the image information relating to the at least one kind of medicine from an image database;
A prescription input terminal display step for displaying the image information extracted in the extraction step on the prescription input terminal device;
After the prescription input terminal display step, a selection confirmation step of selecting and confirming a specific medicine out of the at least one kind of medicine at the prescription input terminal device;
A pharmaceutical prescription support method comprising:   The pharmaceutical prescription support method according to claim 1, further comprising a dispensing room terminal display step of displaying the image information related to the specific medicine selected in the selecting step on a dispensing room terminal device. Pharmaceutical prescription support method.   The pharmaceutical prescription support method according to claim 1, further comprising a step of printing the image information related to the specific medicine selected in the selection step on paper as a part of a prescription. Support method.   4. The pharmaceutical prescription support method according to claim 1, wherein the information for identifying the at least one kind of medicine is at least a part of a medicine name of the medicine.   5. The pharmaceutical prescription support method according to claim 1, wherein the image information related to the medicine includes at least a trademark of the medicine.   6. The pharmaceutical prescription support method according to claim 5, wherein the image information related to the medicine further includes an appearance of the medicine or a package of the medicine. In a pharmaceutical prescription support system including an image database that has a prescription input terminal device including at least an input unit and a display unit and stores data specifying a medicine in association with image information related to the medicine,
It is configured to extract image information related to the medicine from the image database based on data specifying the medicine input from the input unit and display the image information on the display unit,
A pharmaceutical prescription support system characterized by The pharmaceutical prescription support system according to claim 7,
Dispensing room terminal device arranged at a position away from the prescription input terminal device,
Means for sending image information related to the medicine from the prescription input terminal device to the dispensing room terminal device through a communication line;
Means for displaying image information related to the medicine on the dispensing room terminal device;
A pharmaceutical prescription support system characterized by further comprising:   The pharmaceutical prescription support system according to claim 7 or 8, wherein the image database is arranged at a position away from the prescription input terminal device, and the image database and the prescription input terminal device are connected by a communication line. A pharmaceutical prescription support system characterized by that. Computer for medical prescription support,
Identification information input means for inputting information for identifying at least one kind of medicine;
Extraction means for extracting image information related to the at least one kind of medicine from an image database;
Display means for displaying the image information extracted by the extraction means, and selection means for selecting a specific medicine among the at least one kind of medicine for which the image information is displayed;
Pharmaceutical prescription support program to function as.   11. The pharmaceutical prescription support program according to claim 10, wherein a computer for medical prescription support and a dispensing room terminal display means for displaying the image information related to the specific medicine selected by the selection means on a dispensing room terminal device. A pharmaceutical prescription support program characterized by further functioning as 11. The pharmaceutical prescription support program according to claim 10, further comprising: a computer for medical prescription support; and means for printing the image information related to the specific medicine selected by the selection means on paper as part of a prescription. A pharmaceutical prescription support program characterized by functioning.

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