JP2020017307A - Medicine taking support system, medicine taking support method, and program - Google Patents

Abstract

To enable patients to intuitively and accurately understand medicines what they respectively have to take at present.SOLUTION: In a medicine taking support system, which involves pharmacy bags on each of which a prescribed medicine is stated and electronic equipment for stating information regarding each medicine, trigger information matching its content is stated on each pharmacy bag, and the electronic equipment is equipped with a photographic unit for photographing the trigger information, a display unit for displaying medicinal information regarding the medicine contained, and a control unit for causing, when the trigger information on a pharmacy bag is photographed by the photographic unit, it to be displayed overlapping the trigger information photographing information on the medicine to be currently taken, out of the medicines contained in the pharmacy bag identified by the trigger information, on the display unit overlapping the trigger information.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 4A

Description

  The present invention relates to a medicine taking support system, a medicine taking support method, and a program for supporting taking of a medicine.

Conventionally, patients can print the prescription information such as the name of the dispensed medicine, the photograph of the medicine, the efficacy of the medicine, the method of taking the medicine, and precautions (side effects, etc.) in medicine bags and instruction sheets (document information providing documents). Means have been taken so as not to take erroneously (for example, see Patent Document 1).
However, even if a patient tries to take a medicine in accordance with prescribed instructions, the patient may not be able to take the medicine. For example, when taking 30 minutes after a meal or taking between meals is instructed, the timing of taking the medicine may be missed, and it is difficult to take the medicine reliably at the time indicated in the prescription. there were.
In addition, when the types and amounts of medicines to be taken are large and the timing for taking the medicines varies, for example, mistakes such as forgetting to take only a certain medicine, taking the wrong dose, or taking a different medicine by mistake. Is easy to occur.
Therefore, there is a dosage support system that notifies a patient of the timing of taking a medicine by e-mail (Patent Documents 1 and 2).

The invention described in Patent Literature 1 automatically sends an e-mail prompting the patient to take a medicine to a patient's portable terminal at a scheduled time of taking the medicine, and responds to the response to the patient with a reply e-mail. is there. Doing so will help patients remember to take the drug.
Similarly, in the invention described in Patent Literature 2, the external server determines that the intake timing is approaching based on the prescription information, and notifies the user of the medication intake timing information.

JP 2007-122183 A JP-A-2005-024040

However, in the case of the inventions described in Patent Literature 1 and Patent Literature 2, the user is notified by e-mail that the medicine is to be taken. In particular, when a plurality of medicines are prescribed, the patient can use any medicine. It is difficult to understand intuitively and accurately whether to take.
Also, the patient may forget to open the e-mail notified at the time of taking the medicine, and as a result, may forget to take the medicine. In addition, since the e-mail is transmitted and received via the mail server on the Internet, there is a possibility that the e-mail is delayed from being transmitted to being received. As a result, there is a possibility that the taking timing is missed.

  The present invention has been made in view of such circumstances, and an object of the present invention is to enable a patient to intuitively and accurately understand a medicine to be currently taken.

In order to solve the above problems, a medicine taking support system according to one embodiment of the present invention includes:
A medicine taking support system including a medicine bag in which a prescribed medicine is described and an electronic device that displays information about the medicine,
In the medicine bag,
Trigger information corresponding to the medicine bag is described,
The electronic device,
An imaging unit that captures the trigger information;
A display unit that displays drug information regarding the drug,
When the trigger information of the medicine bag is imaged by the imaging unit, among the medicines packaged in the medicine bag specified by the trigger information, medicine information to be currently taken is superimposed on the imaged trigger information. And a control unit for displaying on the display unit.
It is characterized by the following.

  According to the present invention, it is possible for a patient to intuitively and accurately understand a medicine to be currently taken.

It is a conceptual diagram showing the system configuration of a medicine taking support system. It is a figure showing an example of a medicine bag which has a trigger image. FIG. 3 is a diagram illustrating a configuration of an electronic device. It is a figure which shows the example of a display of the medicine taking management data of the medicine currently taken which is displayed on a display part when the medicine bag is imaged by the electronic device in the medicine bag. It is a figure which shows the example of the guidance display for making the type of the information data of the medicine currently taken take selection. It is a figure which shows the example which displays the selected information data of the medicine which should be taken now on a display part. It is a figure which shows the example of the medication history information displayed on a display part when a medication history is tapped. FIG. 3 is a diagram illustrating a configuration of a server. It is a flowchart which shows the flow of a medicine taking support process by a taking support system. It is a flowchart which shows the flow of a medicine taking support process by a taking support system. It is a flowchart which shows the flow of a medicine taking support process by a taking support system.

[First embodiment of the present invention]
Hereinafter, a first embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings.

[System Configuration of Drug Taking Support System 100]
FIG. 1 is a conceptual diagram showing a system configuration of the medicine taking support system 100.
As shown in FIG. 1, the medication support system according to the first embodiment includes a terminal installed in a dispensing pharmacy (hereinafter, referred to as “pharmacy terminal 1”), a medicine bag 2, an electronic device 3, a server 4, 5 is comprised.

  The pharmacy terminal 1 includes a printer and is communicably connected to the server 4 via a network 5. The pharmacy terminal 1 includes a control unit and a storage unit that stores various programs. The control unit executes the various programs to provide the following functions.

At the pharmacy, the pharmacist accepts the prescription brought by the patient as a user, inputs the prescription data to the pharmacy terminal 1, and checks the reconciliation of the contents described in the prescription. Then, the pharmacist dispenses according to the prescription, and packages all the prescribed medicines into one medicine bag 2 or a plurality of medicine bags 2.
At this time, the pharmacy terminal 1 receives, based on drug identification information (hereinafter, also referred to as “drug ID”) from a drug information database (not shown) in which drug information is stored, according to a pharmacist's instruction, drug information data (for example, , Drug image data, drug effects, precautions for the drug, side effects of the drug, etc.), and information unique to the patient (for example, advice on taking, personal information of the patient) input from the pharmacy terminal 1 by the pharmacist. Based on the communication information such as a message), medicine information data (hereinafter also referred to as “drug information data”) is created for each medicine packaged in the medicine bag 2.
The medicine information data is stored in a medicine information data file 411 provided in the storage unit 41 of the server 4 described later, in a state linked to the user ID of the patient.
The server 4 can appropriately update the created drug information data at a timing at which the content of the drug information database is updated in response to an update of information on the drug from an administrative organization or the like.

  Here, the pharmacist's dosage advice explained to the patient is, for example, a dosage advice (cautions) for the patient suggested by the pharmacist with reference to the medicine notebook carried by the patient. For example, advice on taking may include notes on quasi-drugs that are inappropriately related to the medicine to be taken, notes on drinking alcohol, notes on driving a vehicle, and the like.

The message for the patient of the pharmacist is, for example, a message that alerts the patient about the patient's taking of the medicine. For example, if the prescribed drug is taken as prescribed, the remaining drug amount is displayed as a message, and if the remaining amount is estimated to be small, a message prompting re-examination, or a message indicating that the prescribed drug is prescribed. For example, there is a message indicating that the amount of the remaining drug when the medicine is taken as a message is displayed as a message to prompt the user to check the amount of the remaining medicine.
Such a message can be uploaded to the server 4 at any time by the pharmacy terminal 1 not only when the medicine bag 2 is created but also during the period when the patient takes the medicine.

  Further, the information data of the medicine may include not only the text but also a still image, a moving image, a sound and the like. In this case, the still image and the moving image may be capable of color display. Alternatively, information data (text) may be output as voice by voice synthesis software.

In addition, the pharmacy terminal 1 provides the patient with information on the medicine to be taken (for example, the name of the medicine to be taken, the dose per dose, etc.) for the medicine packed in the medicine bag 2 in a timely manner. In order to manage and manage the patient's medication taking status, medication administration data (hereinafter referred to as “drug administration data”) is created based on a prescription according to a pharmacist's instruction.
The medicine taking management data is stored in a medicine taking management file 412 provided in the storage unit 41 of the server 4 described below, in a state linked to the user ID of the patient.

The drug administration data includes the drug ID, the name of the drug, the image data of the drug, the dose per dose of the drug, and the timing of taking the drug (for example, before, during, after and after bedtime in the morning, day, and night, before going to bed, Interval, etc.), and taking status data indicating a taken or not taken state. As the taking state data, the state of taking or not taking at each taking timing in the prescription period of the medicine can be recorded.
By doing so, the medicine taking management data, for each day in the taking period, the name of the medicine to be taken, its dose, and its taking status data, in a tabular data table corresponding to the time zone of taking Can be converted to

  For example, referring to FIG. 4D to be described later, the prescription period is, for example, 10 days from June 1, 2015, and the prescription content is that one tablet C is taken at the timing of taking before breakfast, and each meal (breakfast, lunch) One tablet A, one tablet B, one tablet D, and one tablet F are taken at the timing of taking after dinner), and one tablet E is taken at the timing before bedtime. In some cases, it can be represented as a tabular data table in which the name of the medicine to be taken and the dose are associated with a predetermined dose timing for each day in the prescription period. In addition, FIG. 4D shows the taking status from June 1 to the taking timing after lunch on June 6 when the current time is June 6, as a tabular data table.

Next, the trigger image 2A used in the medicine taking support process will be described. The trigger image 2A is associated with information for managing and assisting in taking the entire medicine prescribed for the medicine bag.
The trigger image 2 </ b> A is an image that is recognized by the electronic device 3 and serves as a trigger for starting an operation of a function of the electronic device 3 described later or a trigger for starting an application program installed in the electronic device 3. is there.
Specifically, an AR (Augmented Reality) marker, a barcode, a two-dimensional code (QR code (registered trademark), or the like) can be used as the trigger image 2A used in the medicine taking support processing.

The trigger image 2A is preferably configured to include at least medicine bag identification information for identifying the medicine bag (hereinafter, referred to as “medical bag ID”). Specifically, for example, it is preferable to encode the medicine bag ID using a two-dimensional code (or a barcode or text data). By doing so, the trigger image 2A can provide the electronic device 3 with a medicine bag ID for identifying the medicine bag.
The pharmacy terminal 1 generates the trigger image 2A according to the instruction of the pharmacist.

As described above, the pharmacy terminal 1 generates a record (referred to as “drug information data record”) including drug information data for the drug prescribed to the patient using the drug ID as a key, and stores the record in the server 4 described later. It is stored or uploaded in the medicine information data file 411 provided in the unit 41.
In other words, the medicine information data record includes, for each medicine contained in the medicine bag 2, using the medicine ID as a key, the name of the medicine, the image data of the medicine, the effect of the medicine, the precautions of the medicine, the side effects of the medicine, It can be configured to include advice, a message by the pharmacist to the individual patient.

In addition, the pharmacy terminal 1 assigns a medicine bag ID to the medicine bag 2 prescribed to the patient, and generates a record (referred to as a “dose management record”) containing medicine administration data using the medicine bag ID as a key. It is stored or uploaded in the medicine taking management file 412 provided in the storage unit 41 of the server 4 to be executed.
That is, the medicine taking management record uses the medicine bag ID as a key, and for each medicine packaged in the medicine bag, the medicine ID, the name of the medicine, the image data of the medicine, the dose per medicine, the timing of taking the medicine. , And medication status data.
The name of the medicine and the image data of the medicine can be referred to from the medicine information data file 411 using the medicine ID as a key, and thus may not be included in the dose management record.

The pharmacy terminal 1 causes the printer to print at least the patient name and the trigger image 2A on the medicine bag 2.
FIG. 2 is a diagram illustrating an example of the medicine bag 2 having a trigger image.
As shown in FIG. 2, the trigger image 2A is printed so as to be visible in a predetermined area of the medicine bag 2.

  The pharmacy terminal 1 may cause the data printed on the medicine bag 2 to be printed on the medication instruction sheet instead of printing the data on the medicine bag 2 as described above. Further, for example, a trigger image 2A corresponding to the name of the medicine and the medicine may be printed on the adhesive sheet. In that case, the printed adhesive sheet may be attached to the medicine bag 2.

[Configuration of electronic device 3]
The electronic device 3 is configured as a mobile terminal such as a smartphone, a tablet terminal, a notebook computer, a mobile phone, a PDA, and the like.
FIG. 3 is a diagram illustrating a configuration of the electronic device 3.
As shown in FIG. 3, the electronic device 3 includes at least a control unit 30, a storage unit 31, a communication unit 32, an imaging unit 33, a display unit 34, and an input unit 35. Although not shown, a speaker and a microphone can be provided.

The control unit 30 is configured by a microprocessor having a central processing unit (CPU), a random access memory (RAM), a read only memory (ROM), and an I / O. The CPU executes each program read from the ROM or the storage unit 31, reads information from the RAM, the ROM, and the storage unit 31, and writes information to the RAM and the storage unit 31 at the time of execution. The communication unit 32, the imaging unit 33, the display unit 34, and the input unit 35 exchange signals.
Details of the control contents in the control unit 30 will be described later.

  The storage unit 31 is configured by, for example, a semiconductor memory or the like, and stores an operating system (OS), an application program for supporting medication, and the like. The application program may be configured to be stored in the storage unit 31 in advance. Further, a configuration in which the information is appropriately acquired from the server 4 may be used.

  The communication unit 32 has, for example, a DSP (Digital Signal Processor), and performs wireless communication through a wireless communication network represented by a mobile phone communication network such as 3G or LTE, and can perform wireless communication with the server 4. Is configured.

  The imaging unit 33 captures the trigger image 2A printed on the medicine bag 2 according to the operation of the patient. Here, the imaging unit 33 may be configured by a digital camera function built in the electronic device 3.

  The display unit 34 is configured by a display device such as a display mounted on the electronic device 3 and configured to display display information in response to an instruction from the control unit 30.

  The input unit 35 includes an input device (not shown) such as a physical switch called a numeric keypad or a touch panel provided on the display surface of the display unit 34. A predetermined operation can be performed by outputting a signal to the control unit 30 based on an operation input from the input unit 35, for example, pressing a numeric keypad by a patient who is a user or touching a touch panel.

  The speaker outputs a voice to the patient, and the microphone collects a voice or the like emitted by the patient. For example, using a speaker, medicine administration data of a medicine to be currently taken can be output as voice by voice synthesis software. Further, voice input can be performed using a microphone.

The control unit 30 causes the electronic device 3 to function as a predetermined unit (hereinafter, also referred to as a “drug taking support unit”) by executing an application program (hereinafter, also referred to as a “drug taking support application”).
In addition, the control unit 30 causes the electronic device to execute a predetermined procedure (hereinafter, also collectively referred to as a “medication taking support procedure”) by executing the medicine taking support application.

  As shown in FIG. 3, the control unit 30 includes a connection processing unit 300, a trigger image reading unit 301, a medicine taking management data acquiring unit 302, a medicine taking management data display unit 303, a guidance display unit 304, It includes a data acquisition unit 305, an information data display unit 306, and a medication history inquiry unit 307.

The connection processing unit 300 performs a log-in process to the server 4 from an electronic device carried by the patient. It is also possible to automatically log in by authenticating the mobile phone number.
The connection processing unit 300 can be configured to perform the medicine taking support process when the patient is authenticated as a valid person.

  The trigger image reading unit 301 is configured to recognize the trigger image 2A in the entire image captured by the imaging unit 33, read the trigger image 2A, and read the medicine bag ID embedded in the trigger image 2A. By doing so, the trigger image reading unit 301 acquires the medicine bag ID.

Upon recognizing the trigger image 2A by the trigger image reading unit 301, the medicine taking management data acquisition unit 302 accesses the server 4 via the communication unit 32 and takes the medicine taking management information of the medicine to be taken currently corresponding to the medicine bag ID. To get.
Specifically, the medicine taking management data acquisition unit 302 uses the medicine bag ID as a parameter and sends the medicine taking management information providing unit 402 of the server 4 described below to take the medicine corresponding to the medicine bag ID to be taken at present. By making a management data acquisition request, the server 4 (drug administration information providing unit 402) acquires the medication administration data of the medicine to be currently administered.

The medicine taking management data display section 303 displays on the display section 34 the medicine taking management data of the medicine to be currently taken obtained from the server 4 (the medicine taking management information providing section 402).
For example, the medicine taking management data display section 303 can superimpose and display the medicine taking management data of the medicine to be currently taken on the display location of the trigger image 2A captured on the display section 34. At this time, as shown in FIG. 4A, the medicine taking management data display section 303 displays the current time and the current taking timing, displays a balloon 341 for each medicine to be taken, and includes the name of the medicine and the name thereof. , The image data of the medicine, and the dose per medicine.
FIG. 4A is a diagram showing a display example of drug administration data of a drug to be currently taken. In this example, the current time (7:30 am), the intake timing (after breakfast) are displayed, and all the medicines to be taken at the intake timing are displayed.
This allows the patient to intuitively and accurately understand the medicine to be currently taken.

<History input (patient check button) by patient>
Referring to FIG. 4A, when taking a medicine to be currently taken, by clicking a taking check button 342 displayed in a balloon 341 displaying the currently taking medicine, the electronic device 3 (the medicine taking management data) is displayed. The display unit 303) notifies the server (dose period management unit 403) of event data indicating that the medicine has been taken.
By doing so, the server (dose period management unit 403) can maintain the patient's dose period management data of the drug in the latest state. By clicking the check button 343 for all selected doses, it is possible to click the check button 342 for every balloon. Thereby, even if the trigger image is read a plurality of times during the time period when the medicine should be taken, the medicine that has been taken and the medicine that has not been taken are appropriately displayed.

<Inquiry when it is not time to take the medicine>
If the current time does not belong to the time zone of the timing of taking the medicine, the medicine taking management data display unit 303 displays a message indicating that it is not currently the taking timing.

<Inquiry of drug information data>
FIG. 4B is a diagram showing an example of a guidance display for selecting a type of information data of a medicine (A capsule) to be currently taken.
FIG. 4C is a diagram showing an example in which the selected information data of the medicine to be currently taken is displayed on the display unit 34.
When the medicine taking management data of the medicine to be currently taken is displayed as shown in FIG. 4A, and the patient wants to know the medicine information data of the medicine to be taken, the balloon 341 of the corresponding medicine is tapped. The guidance display unit 304 can be configured to display a guidance screen for selecting the type of information data of a corresponding drug.
Here, for example, by selecting a notice, the electronic device 3 (information data acquisition unit 305) requests the server 4 (drug information provision unit 401) to acquire the notice of the medicine. The electronic device 3 (information data acquisition unit 305) receives the precautions of the medicine from the server 4 (medication information providing unit 401), and as shown in FIG. 4C, the information data display unit 306 displays the medicine to be taken at present. Displays the notes for (A capsule).
The information data of the medicine can be output as voice by voice synthesis software.

<Inquiry history of drug information data>
FIG. 4D is a diagram illustrating an example of the medication history information displayed on the display unit 34 when the medication history is tapped.
If the patient wants to know the history of the medication history when the medication administration data of the medication to be currently taken is displayed, the user taps the balloon of the medication history shown in FIG. The history inquiry unit 307) requests the server 4 (dose history providing unit 404) for the past dose history status.
By doing so, the electronic device 3 (dose history inquiry unit 307) receives the past dose history status from the server 4 (dose history providing unit 404), and as shown in FIG. It can be configured to display status.
In each of the display examples shown in FIGS. 4A to 4D, the display content can include not only text but also a still image and a moving image displayed in color.

[Configuration of Server 4]
FIG. 5 is a diagram illustrating the configuration of the server 4.
As shown in FIG. 5, the server 4 includes at least a control unit 40, a storage unit 41, and a communication unit 42. Further, the server 4 can include a display unit 43 and an input unit 44 as necessary.
In the first embodiment, the server 4 is described as one server. However, a distributed processing system may be used in which each function of the server 4 is appropriately distributed to a plurality of servers. Further, each function of the server may be realized using a virtual server function or the like on the cloud. In addition, the server 4 may be, for example, a server system including a Web server, an application server, and a database server.

The control unit 40 is configured by a processor having a CPU, a RAM, a ROM, an I / O and the like, and controls each component. The CPU executes the application program read from the RAM, the ROM, or the storage unit 41, reads information from the RAM, the ROM, and the storage unit 41, and writes information to the RAM and the storage unit. , And exchanges signals with the communication unit 42.
Details of the control contents in the control unit 40 will be described later.

The storage unit 41 includes a semiconductor memory, a hard disk drive, and the like, and stores various information such as an operating system (OS) and software called an application.
Further, the storage unit 41 stores a user information data file 410, a medicine information data file 411, and a medicine taking management file 412.

  In the user information data file 410, a user information data record is created for each patient, and user information data (for example, user ID, password, mobile phone number, address, name, health insurance card number, etc.) is stored.

  The medicine information data file 411 includes a medicine information data record linked to the user ID of the patient. The medicine information data record includes, for each medicine contained in the medicine bag 2, using the medicine bag ID and the medicine ID as a key, the name of the medicine, the image data of the medicine, the effect of the medicine, the precautions for the medicine, the side effects of the medicine, and the ingestion by the pharmacist. Advice, and a message from the pharmacist to the individual patient.

  The medicine taking management file 412 includes a medicine taking management record linked to the user ID of the patient. The medicine taking management record uses the medicine bag ID as a key, and stores the medicine ID, the name of the medicine, the image data of the medicine, the dosage per medicine, and the timing of taking the medicine of all the medicines packaged in the medicine bag. , Before, during, after meals, before going to bed, every hour, etc.), and taking state data indicating the state of taking or not taking.

  The communication unit 42 implements a communication protocol that can be connected to a network such as the Internet line, and a communication protocol that transmits and receives (data communication) packet data and the like to and from the electronic device 3 through a wireless base station (not shown). By doing so, for example, wireless communication can be performed in the case of transmission and reception with the electronic device 3. Further, in the case of transmission and reception with the pharmacy terminal 1, wired or wireless communication can be performed.

  The control unit 40 causes the server 4 to function as a predetermined unit (hereinafter, collectively referred to as a “drug taking support control unit”) by executing a program for taking a drug.

  As shown in FIG. 5, the control unit 40 includes a connection processing unit 400, a medicine information providing unit 401, a medicine taking management information providing unit 402, a taking period managing unit 403, and a taking history providing unit 404. .

The connection processing unit 400 executes login processing from an electronic device carried by the patient, and refers to the user information data file 410 or the like to authenticate that the user is a legitimate person. It is also possible to automatically log in by authenticating the mobile phone number.
When the connection processing unit 400 authenticates that the patient is a legitimate person, the connection processing unit 400 can be configured to perform a medicine taking support process on the patient.

<Drug information providing unit 401>
The medicine information providing unit 401 extracts the medicine information data from the medicine information data file 411 based on the information data request of the medicine selected by the patient, which is received from the electronic device 3 via the communication unit 42.
Specifically, based on the medicine bag ID and the medicine ID, the corresponding medicine information data is searched and acquired from the medicine information data file 411. The medicine information providing unit 401 transmits the acquired medicine information data to the electronic device 3 via the communication unit 42.
The medicine information providing unit 401 may be configured to transmit to the electronic device 3 a medicine information data record including not only the information data of the medicine selected by the patient but also all information data. In this case, the electronic device 3 (information data display unit 306) may be configured to extract and display the selected drug information data from the received drug information data record.

<Drug administration information providing unit 402>
The medicine taking management information providing unit 402 takes the medicine to be taken currently contained in the medicine bag with the medicine bag ID as a key, which is received from the electronic device 3 (the medicine taking management data acquiring unit 302) via the communication unit 42. Based on the request for the management data, medicine taking management data of the medicine to be currently taken is generated.

  Specifically, the medicine taking management information providing unit 402 determines that the current time is based on the current time information at the time of taking the medicine (for example, before and after meals in the morning, day, and night, during a meal, after eating, before going to bed, every hour, etc.). Judge which of the time periods it corresponds to.

  The medicine taking management information providing unit 402, from the medicine taking management record using the medicine bag ID as a key, all the medicine IDs having the medicine taking timing corresponding to the current time, the name of the medicine corresponding to the medicine ID, and the medicine , The dose of the medicine per dose, and the dose status data indicating the status of taken or not taken are extracted.

When the condition that the taking status data at the current time is not taken is satisfied, the medicine taking management information providing unit 402 transmits the extracted medicine managing data list of the medicine to be taken at present via the communication unit 42. Is transmitted to the electronic device 3 (medication taking management data display unit 303).
By doing so, the server 4 (drug management information providing unit 402) provides the patient with the drug information to be currently taken.

<Dose period management unit 403>
When the patient takes the medicine to be currently taken, the electronic device 3 (medication taking management data display unit 303) determines that the medicine has been taken when the patient clicks the check button 342 of the medicine to be taken now. Notify the server 4 (dose period management unit 403) of the event data to be performed.
In response to the reception of the event data indicating that the medicine has been taken, the taking period management unit 403 updates the taking period management data (taking state data) of the medicine packaged in the medicine bag 2 to “taken”, and takes the medicine. The state can be kept up to date.

<Taking history providing unit 404>
When the patient taps the balloon 344 of the medication history, the electronic device 3 (the medication history inquiry unit 307) notifies the server 4 (the medication history providing unit 404) of the previous medication history information request.
The server 4 (dose history providing unit 404) generates a dose history status up to the present as shown in FIG. 4D and provides the electronic device 3 (dose history inquiry unit 307). By doing so, the patient can confirm, for example, whether or not forgetting to take the medicine has occurred.

[Processing of Drug Taking Support System 100]
Subsequently, referring to FIGS. 4A to 4D and 6A to 6C, the medicine taking in the case of providing the patient with the taking instruction information of the medicine to be taken now by imaging the medicine bag 2 with the electronic device 3. The medicine taking support processing flow by the support system 100 will be described. It is assumed that a trigger image 2A corresponding to the medicine bag is printed on the medicine bag 2 in advance by the pharmacy terminal 1. Also, it is assumed that the medicine information data file 411 and the medicine taking management file 412 of the server 4 have been created in advance.
It is assumed that an application related to medicine taking support is installed and activated in the electronic device 3.
6A to 6C are flowcharts illustrating the flow of the medicine taking support process executed by the medicine taking support system 100.
The medicine taking support process is started in response to the electronic device 3 receiving a predetermined operation (for example, a connection process) for performing the medicine taking support process by the patient.

  In step ST101, the imaging unit 33 acquires the image data of the medicine bag 2 from the imaging unit 33 based on the operation of the patient.

  In step ST102, the trigger image reading unit 301 recognizes the trigger image 2A in the entire image captured in step ST101, reads the trigger image 2A, and reads the medicine bag ID embedded in the trigger image 2A.

  In step ST103, the electronic device 3 (drug administration management data acquisition unit 302) uses the medicine bag ID read in step ST102 as a parameter to the server 4 (drug administration management information providing unit 402) for the medicine to be currently taken. Request to take the medication management data.

  In step ST <b> 201, the server 4 (drug administration information providing unit 402) transmits the drug administration data of the medicine to be currently received from the electronic device 3 (drug administration data acquisition unit 302) via the communication unit 42. Based on the request, medicine administration data for the medicine to be currently taken is generated.

  In step ST202, the server 4 (drug administration information providing unit 402) sends a list of medicinal management data of the medicines to be currently taken to the electronic device 3 (drug administration data display unit 303) via the communication unit 42. Send.

  In step ST104, the electronic device 3 (drug administration data display unit 303) displays the drug administration data of the drug to be currently acquired from the server 4 (drug administration information providing unit 402) as shown in FIG. 4A, for example. Then, it is displayed on the display unit 34.

  In step ST105, if the patient has clicked the take check button 342, the process proceeds to step ST106. If the patient has tapped the medicine balloon 341, the process proceeds to step ST <b> 107. When the medication history is tapped, the process proceeds to step ST110.

  In step ST106, the electronic device 3 (drug administration data display unit 303) notifies the server (dose period management unit 403) of event data indicating that the drug has been taken. Thereafter, for example, a predetermined return operation returns to step ST104.

In step ST203, the server 4 (dose period management unit 403) updates the dose management data (dose status data) of the drug to “done” in response to the reception of the event data. Thereafter, the server 4 waits for a request from the electronic device 3 to be received.
By doing so, the server 4 (drug administration information providing unit 402) can always maintain the patient's medication administration data in the latest state.

  In step ST107, the electronic device 3 (guidance display unit 304) displays a guidance screen for allowing the user to select the type of information data of the drug, as shown in FIG. 4B.

  In step ST108, when the type of the drug information data of the drug (for example, the effect of the drug, the method of taking the drug, the precautions of the drug, the side effect of the drug, the advice, or the message) is selected via the guidance screen, The device 3 (information data acquisition unit 305) requests the server 4 (medication information providing unit 401) to acquire medicine information data using the medicine ID as a parameter.

  In step ST204, the server 4 (drug information providing unit 401) transmits the drug information data to the drug based on the drug information data acquisition request received via the communication unit 42 from the electronic device 3 (information data acquisition unit 305). It is extracted from the information data file 411.

  In step ST205, the server 4 (drug information providing unit 401) transmits the drug information data extracted in step ST204 to the electronic device 3 (information data display unit 306). Thereafter, the server 4 waits for a request from the electronic device 3 to be received.

  In step ST109, the electronic device 3 (information data display unit 306) displays the medicine information data of the medicine as shown in FIG. 4C. Thereafter, for example, a predetermined return operation returns to step ST104. Here, the predetermined return operation is, for example, an operation of clicking an operation button for returning to the previous screen.

  In step ST110, the electronic device 3 (drug administration data display unit 303) requests the server 4 (dose history providing unit 404) for a medication history status.

  In ST206, the server 4 (dose history providing unit 404) shown in FIG. 4D based on the acquisition history status request received from the electronic device 3 (drug administration data display unit 303) via the communication unit 42. Generate a history of medication history up to now.

  In ST207, the server 4 (dose history providing unit 404) transmits the dose history status generated in step ST206 to the electronic device 3 (dose history inquiry unit 307). Thereafter, the server 4 waits for a request from the electronic device 3 to be received.

  In ST111, the electronic device 3 (dose history inquiry unit 307) receives the past dose history status from the server 4 (dose history providing unit 404), and as shown in FIG. indicate. Thereafter, for example, a predetermined return operation returns to step ST104.

It should be noted that the present invention is not limited to the above-described embodiment, but includes modifications and improvements as long as the object of the present invention can be achieved.
For example, in the present invention, displaying a balloon (medicine information) superimposed on a trigger image includes superimposing the balloon (medicine information) on the captured image when the trigger image is included in the angle of view of the captured image. Displaying at any position in the display area is included.

The series of processes described above can be executed by hardware or can be executed by software.
In other words, the functional configuration is merely an example and is not particularly limited. That is, it is sufficient that any of the computers constituting the medicine taking support system 100 has a function capable of executing the above-described series of processes as a whole, and what kind of functional blocks are used to realize this function is as follows. It is not particularly limited to the illustrated example.
In addition, one functional block may be configured by hardware alone, may be configured by software alone, or may be configured by a combination thereof.

[Modification 1]
In the above-described embodiment, the electronic device 3 (drug administration data acquisition unit 302) uses the medicine bag ID as a parameter to the server 4 (drug administration information providing unit 402) to take the medicine to be currently taken. The management data acquisition request is received, and the medicine taking management data of the medicine to be currently taken is received from the server 4 (medication taking management information providing unit 402). That is, in the above-described embodiment, the functions of the present invention are realized as a cloud-type system.
On the other hand, for example, when the medicine bag 2 is prescribed at the pharmacy, the electronic device 3 transmits the medicine taking management record corresponding to the prescribed medicine bag 2 directly from the pharmacy terminal 1, for example, through short-range wireless communication or the like. Alternatively, the information may be received through the storage unit 31 and stored in the storage unit 31 as the medicine taking management file 412.
In this case, the medicine taking management data acquiring unit 302 is configured to acquire the medicine taking management data of the medicine to be currently taken by accessing the storage unit 31 (medicine taking management file) instead of the server 4. .
The medicine information data file 411 may be similarly stored in the storage unit 31 as a medicine information data file.
By doing so, the electronic device 3 is configured to have the function of the server 4.
In this case, the functions of the present invention can be realized in the electronic device 3 as a stand-alone type system.
In this case, in the electronic device 3, it is appropriately confirmed whether or not the content of the drug information database has been updated in response to the update of the information on the drug from the administrative organization, and the content of the drug information database has been updated. In this case, the medicine information data can be appropriately updated.

[Modification 2]
When the electronic device 3 (information data acquisition unit 305) requests the server 4 (drug information providing unit 401) to acquire medicine information data and receives the medicine information data record, The data may be stored in the storage unit 31 of the electronic device 3 as a cache file.
By doing so, when the electronic device 3 (information data acquisition unit 305) displays the medicine information data on the display unit 34 for the second time or later, it is stored as a cache file in the storage unit 31 of the electronic device 3. By accessing the medicine information data record, medicine information data can be obtained while the frequency of accessing the server 4 is reduced.
In this case, in the electronic device 3, it is appropriately confirmed whether or not the content of the drug information database has been updated in response to the update of the information on the drug from the administrative organization, and the content of the drug information database has been updated. In this case, the medicine information data can be appropriately updated.

[Modification 3]
In the above-described embodiment, when the medicine administration data of the medicine to be currently taken is displayed and the user wants to know the medicine information data of the medicine to be taken, the guidance display is performed by tapping the balloon of the corresponding medicine. The unit 304 displays a guidance screen for selecting the medicine information data on the display unit 34 for the patient, and allows the patient to select the type of the medicine information data by tapping the corresponding balloon.
On the other hand, when the medicine administration data of the medicine to be currently taken is displayed, if the user wants to know the medicine information data of the medicine to be taken, the electronic device 3 taps the balloon of the corresponding medicine, and Alternatively, a request for acquiring the medicine information data may be directly made to the server 4 (the medicine information providing unit 401) using the medicine bag ID and the medicine ID as parameters.
By doing so, the electronic device 3 may be configured to display all the medicine information data from the acquired medicine information data record without displaying the guidance. In other words, when the drug dose management data of the drug to be taken is displayed, if you want to know the drug information data of the drug to be taken, tap the balloon of the corresponding drug to display all the drug information data. May be configured.
For example, when the size of the display unit 34 of the electronic device is large enough to display all of the medicine information data, such as a tablet terminal, this configuration can be adopted.
Further, when the size of the display unit 34 of the electronic device is such that all the medicine information data cannot be simultaneously referred to, such as a smartphone, the display target may be selected from the guidance screen. preferable.

[Modification 4]
The pharmacist terminal 1 accesses the server 4 with the medicine bag ID and the medicine ID as keys according to the instruction of the pharmacist for the advice on taking the medicine explained to the patient by the pharmacist and the message to the patient individually. , The advice and the message included in the additional information data record can be uploaded.
By doing so, the pharmacist can give appropriate advice or a message to the patient at a necessary timing.

[Modification 5]
The push function can be set in the medicine taking support application and the device information can be registered in the server 4 so as to enable the push notification from the server 4 to the electronic device 3 carried by the patient.
By doing so, if the current time corresponds to the time zone of the medicine taking timing, the medicine taking management data of the medicine can be notified from the server 4 to the electronic device 3 carried by the patient in a push manner. . As a result, the patient can automatically grasp the timing at which the medicine needs to be taken.

  The embodiments and the modifications described above can be appropriately combined.

The embodiments of the present invention have been described above, but the present invention is not limited to the above-described embodiments. Embodiments and modifications can be combined as appropriate.
Further, the effects described in the present embodiment merely enumerate the most preferable effects resulting from the present invention, and the effects according to the present invention are not limited to those described in the present embodiment.

  Reference Signs List 100 drug taking support system, 1 pharmacy terminal, 2 drug bags, 2A trigger image, 3 electronic equipment, 30 control section, 300 connection processing section, 301 trigger image reading section, 302 drug taking management data acquisition section, 303 drug taking management data display Section, 304 guidance display section, 305 information data acquisition section, 306 information data display section, 307 taking history reference section, 31 storage section, 32 communication section, 33 imaging section, 34 display section, 35 input section, 4 server, 40 control Unit, 400 connection processing unit, 401 medicine information providing unit, 402 medicine taking management information providing unit, 403 taking period managing unit, 404 taking history providing unit, 41 storage unit, 410 user information data file, 411 medicine information data file, 412 Drug administration file, 42 communication unit, 5 networks

Claims (4)

A print medium on which trigger information regarding a prescribed drug is described;
Electronic equipment for displaying information about the drug,
The electronic device,
An imaging unit that captures the trigger information;
A display unit that displays drug information regarding the drug,
When the trigger information of the print medium is captured by the imaging unit, the display unit is specified by the trigger information without displaying the trigger information at a display position of the captured trigger information. Among the prescribed medicines, a control unit that superimposes and displays the medicine information to be currently taken, which is determined that the current time corresponds to the taking timing in the information on the medicine, on the captured image,
A drug taking support system, characterized in that: The control unit includes:
The medicine taking support system according to claim 1, wherein when the current time corresponds to the taking timing of the medicine contained in the prescribed medicine, the medicine information to be currently taken is notified by push notification. The electronic device includes a print medium in which trigger information about a prescribed medicine is described, and an electronic device that displays information about the medicine, wherein the electronic device displays an imaging unit that captures the trigger information and medicine information about the medicine. A display unit, and a drug taking support method executed by the drug taking support system comprising:
When the trigger information of the print medium is captured by the image capturing unit, the display unit is specified by the trigger information without displaying the trigger information at a display position of the captured trigger information. A medicine taking support step of superimposing medicine information to be currently taken, determined that the current time corresponds to the taking timing in the information on the medicine among the prescribed medicines, on the captured image and displaying the information on the display unit; ,
A medicine taking support method, comprising: The electronic device includes a print medium in which trigger information about a prescribed medicine is described, and an electronic device that displays information about the medicine, wherein the electronic device displays an imaging unit that captures the trigger information and medicine information about the medicine. A display unit, and a computer that controls an electronic device in the medicine taking support system including:
When the trigger information of the print medium is captured by the image capturing unit, the display unit is specified by the trigger information without displaying the trigger information at a display position of the captured trigger information. Among the prescribed medicines, the medicine information to be taken currently determined that the current time corresponds to the taking timing in the information on the medicine is displayed on the display unit in a manner superimposed on the captured trigger information. Drug taking support function,
A program characterized by realizing.

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