JP5371059B2 - Dispensing system - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To realize a dispensing system which displays other useful information in addition to a display for a drug transportation destination about a display in which visual reading is possible of a pharmaceuticals transportation hand push car. <P>SOLUTION: When loading a carrying vessel 21 in a pharmaceuticals transportation hand push car 20, based on information in which prescribing information or other drug delivery destination is known, in the carrying vessel 21 in which the drug delivery destination is same, mix loading with one of a different drug delivery destination is avoided, if one car is enough to load as a whole in one car, if one car is not enough to load to be divided into multiple cars, and in an information display instrument 30 attached to the pharmaceuticals transportation hand cart 20, a delivery destination display 31 is displayed, and further a hand cart information display 32 which shows loading order concerning the pharmaceuticals transportation hand push car 20 and subsequent presence or absence is displayed, and a partitioning information display 34 which shows a patient for a dividing object, and carrying vessel dividing status is displayed when loading to be divided. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2012,JPO&amp;INPIT

Description

  This invention stocks various drugs such as injection drugs, automatically puts the drugs specified in the prescription data and the dispensing instruction data derived therefrom into the transporter, and further uses the transporter as a handcart for transporting medicines. More particularly, the present invention relates to a dispensing system in which a visually recognizable information display is mounted on a chemical cart and used for destination guidance and the like.

  As automatic dispensing machines for drugs such as tablets and capsules, drug dispensing devices that handle drugs in PTP packaging, drug dispensing machines that handle loose drugs, and automatic injection ampoule supply devices that handle injection drugs have been put into practical use. ing. In addition, these dispensing machines are brought to the tray (transporter) transport mechanism, and then the trays are transported and the dispensing target drug is put into the tray from the dispensing machine to collect the instructed drugs in the tray. A dispensing system for dispensing is also put into practical use (see, for example, Patent Document 1). In this dispensing system, for example, a thermosensitive label capable of writing tray identification information made of a bar code is attached to the tray, and rewriting that can be visually recognized with respect to the label can be performed without contact with laser light. It has become.

  In addition, a transparent medicine bag bagging machine for ampoules and small bottled drugs has been put into practical use (see, for example, Patent Document 2). This medicine bag bagging machine handles medicine bags and hangers in addition to trays (transporters). Specifically, when prescription data (prescription information) is transmitted from a higher-order prescription ordering system or the like, a drug such as an ampoule is dispensed from the automatic dispensing device according to the prescription data and is first collected in a collection tray. The tray is conveyed to a medicine bag bagging machine by a conveyor. In the medicine bag bagging machine, medicine information is printed on the medicine bag and the medicine is packed, and the medicine is packed on a hanger. At the same time, infusion bottles and the like are put into a medicine bag tray, and a medicine bag and a hanger are added to the medicine bag tray. Thus, the medicines are collected in appropriate units such as patient units and ward units so that the drugs do not fall apart.

  In addition, a hand cart for transporting medicine (medicine cart) that can not only store and transport the medicine by hand but also exhibits a cold insulation function and a traveling drive function has been put into practical use (see, for example, Patent Document 3). The drug information management device provided in this cart for transporting medicines comprises a microprocessor system and the like, and includes a card reader and an LCD panel. And read prescription information, surgery information, patient information, set information, transport destination information, transport route information, etc. from IC card etc., and display guidance of hospital room / operating room etc. showing transport destination and confirmation of application target patient The LCD panel is made to display for prompting.

  In addition, a transporter supply device that transfers a transporter between an automatic dispensing machine and a handcart for transporting medicines has been put into practical use (see, for example, Patent Document 4). This transporter supply device takes out an empty transporter from a cart for transporting medicines and supplies it to an automatic dispensing machine, and returns the transporter that contains the medicine and returned from the automatic dispensing machine to the handcart for transporting medicines. ing. In addition, the carrier placement identification information is read from the information carrier such as a data carrier attached to the handcart for drug transport, and the carrier loading operation of the transfer mechanism is controlled based on the information, and the presence / absence check processing of the carrier is performed. It is also supposed to do. In addition, there are also a plurality of transporter inlets formed on the right side in addition to the front of the device. In this case, the front side of the transporter inlet is usually used, and the right side of the transporter inlet is a preliminary.・ Used temporarily and as a buffer.

  It also receives electronic paper, which is an information display means that combines the advantages of electronic data and printed matter, a built-in electronic circuit that performs drive control and data storage related to the display, and commands such as data and display information rewrite commands. An electronic shelf label integrated with a wireless receiver has been put into practical use (see, for example, Patent Document 5). In this electronic shelf label system in which a large number of electronic shelf labels are installed, the electronic shelf label can be accessed using a fixedly installed transceiver (wireless transmitter) connected to a server (wireless control unit) via a LAN, and a portable remote control ( The display information of the electronic shelf label can be switched by a wireless operation device.

  And since such an electronic shelf label and an electronic shelf label system have come to be provided inexpensively and stably, the above-described electronic paper-based electronic shelf label is also attached to the label mounted on the transporter for the dispensing system. As a result of diversion, a label device capable of wirelessly receiving a label of a transporter has been developed to increase the flexibility and flexibility of label rewriting (see, for example, Patent Document 6). In this dispensing system, in addition to prescription numbers and patient names, electronic paper, transportation destination guidance to the auditing table, list of missing items, division guidance of the internal space of the container, audit not completed, transportation destination guidance to the ward, etc. Are displayed in visually readable characters and figures.

JP 2002-153542 A JP 2004-148034 A JP 2005-040371 A JP 2006-239046 A JP 2009-026329 A Japanese Patent Application No. 2009-238050

By introducing electronic paper in this way, for containers that are carried by hand or transported on a conveyor, it is necessary to display information on stored medicines and information on the destination for visual reading. It has become much easier to rewrite labels to display more advanced information such as product lists.
However, for pharmaceutical carts that carry several such transporters in bulk, information carriers dedicated to machine reading, such as data carriers, have been introduced. As it was the old state, the display contents such as handwritten bills and printed stickers were fixed or similar, so it was difficult to operate the handcart flexibly.

However, in this regard, it is easy to change the display of the transportation destination by adopting electronic paper and other information display devices with excellent flexibility and flexibility of display rewriting as information displays for hand carts for drug transport. It is expected that flexible operation will be possible, such as interchange of handcarts for drug delivery between departments.
However, the improvement by increasing the degree of freedom and flexibility of display rewriting of the information display device is limited to the change of the transport destination display, and there is no reason to introduce electronic paper or the like that is more functional but expensive.
Therefore, it is a technical problem to realize a dispensing system that displays other useful information in addition to the display of the drug transport destination for the visually readable display of the handcart for drug transport.

  The dispensing system of the present invention (Solution means 1) was devised to solve such a problem, and dispensed by feeding a contained medicine into a transporter, and information can be visually read. A handcart with an information indicator to be displayed attached to a viewable part, a plurality of transport carts for loading a plurality of transporters, and a transporter received from the dispensing device and loaded onto the transport carts for transporting medicines In a dispensing system that includes a transporter loading device and cooperates between the dispensing device and the transporter loading device based on prescription information, the information display device is adapted to rewrite the display content. , Means for rewriting the display content of the information display is provided, and the pharmaceutical product (by centralized control by a single control device or by distributed control by a plurality of cooperating control means) When loading a transporter into a transport cart, prescribe information and other information that can be used to know the drug transport destination, and the same transport device for the drug transport destination should be combined into a single unit as long as one unit is sufficient while avoiding mixed loading with different drug transport destinations. If one unit is not enough, it will be divided into multiple units and loaded, and the information display attached to the loading cart for the drug transport will display the drug transport destination, and the drug transport destination at the same drug transport destination will be displayed. It is characterized by displaying handcart information indicating the order of loading related to the cart and the presence or absence of the following.

  Further, the dispensing system of the present invention is (Solution means 2), which is the dispensing system of the above-mentioned solution means 1, and loads the same carrier as the drug delivery destination into a plurality of units when loading the container into the drug delivery wheelbarrow. Sometimes, based on prescribing information and other information that can be understood by the patient to be applied, it is determined whether or not a plurality of transporters containing medicines to be applied to the same patient are separately loaded into a plurality of drug delivery wheelbarrows. At the time of loading, the information display attached to the cart for transporting the drug at the loading destination displays division information indicating the division target of the division loading patient and the division status of the division loading target carrier. And

In such a dispensing system of the present invention (Solution 1), the medicines accommodated in the transporter and dispensed are collectively loaded into a handcart for transporting medicines for each transport destination such as a ward unit, and the medicine transporting The handcart information display displays not only the transport destination but also the handcart information display. In addition, since the handcart information display indicates the loading order and the subsequent presence / absence of the same drug transport cart at the same drug transport destination, it is possible to see which drug transport cart is used. However, when they are moved together, it is immediately known whether there are other hand carts for drug delivery with good work efficiency, and if there are others, what should be done in order.
Therefore, according to the present invention, it is possible to realize a dispensing system that displays other useful information in addition to the drug transport destination display for the visually readable display of the handcart for drug transport.

  Further, in the dispensing system of the present invention (solution 2), when division loading occurs for the same patient, the division loading target patient and the division status of the division loading target carrier are displayed. Looking at the information display for confirmation or the like, it can be seen immediately that there has been division loading, and it is also possible to easily and accurately regroup the division loading target vehicles for each patient.

About Example 1 of this invention, the structure etc. of a dispensing system are shown, (a) is a plane arrangement view of each apparatus of a dispensing system, (b) is an external perspective view of a handcart for drug delivery, (c) to (e) ) Is a display example of the information display.

About the dispensing system of such this invention, the specific form for implementing this is demonstrated by the following Example 1. FIG.
The first embodiment shown in FIG. 1 embodies all the above-described solving means 1 and 2 (claims 1 and 2 at the beginning of the application).
In the illustration, for the sake of simplification etc., fasteners such as bolts, coupling tools such as hinges, drive sources such as electric motors, transmission members such as timing belts, electric circuits such as motor drivers, controllers, etc. The electronic circuit and the like are not shown in the figure, and those necessary and related to the explanation of the invention are mainly shown.

  About the Example 1 of the dispensing system of this invention, the specific structure is demonstrated with reference to drawings. 1A is a plan layout view of the devices 11 to 14 and 20 of the dispensing system 10, FIG. 1B is an external perspective view of a handcart 20 for transporting a medicine loaded with a transporter 21, and FIG. 1C is an information display. 3 is a display surface of the container 30.

  This dispensing system 10 (see FIG. 1 (a)) includes a console 11 equipped with a control device, and a transporter supply device 12 arranged in parallel so as to be connected from upstream to downstream along the transporter transport path. Alternatively, a plurality of automatic dispensing devices 13, a carrier loading device 14, and several handcarts 20 for transporting medicines that are moved by hand are provided. The transporter transport path is configured by a transporter transport mechanism that is incorporated in the bottom of each of the devices 12 to 14 or is adjacent to the drug delivery outlet or the transporter transport outlet, for example, a belt conveyor. Thus, it is a transporting device or a device that can be transported by hand, and typical examples include a shallow tray-shaped tray and a square box-shaped box.

If the carrying device 12 can deliver the empty carrying device 21 to the carrying device transport mechanism as necessary, the carrying device 21 can accommodate many carrying devices 21 (see, for example, Patent Documents 1 and 6). It may be transferred (see, for example, Patent Document 4).
If the automatic dispensing device 13 contains a large number and a large amount of medicines in a medicine storage part or the like, and injects the medicines into the transporter 21 according to a control command or the like, the medicines are put into the transporter 21 as they are. However (for example, refer to Patent Documents 1 and 6), they may be filled after bagging or the like (for example, refer to Patent Document 2).

  If the container loading device 14 can receive the medicine-containing carrier 21 sent from the automatic dispensing device 13 and can load it onto the medicine carrying cart 20, the carrying device for bringing the medicine carrying cart 20 together. Even if there is only one loading port (see, for example, Embodiment 1 of Patent Document 1 and FIG. 1), there may be a plurality of loading ports for loading equipment (see, for example, Embodiment 2 of Patent Document 1 and FIG. 2). Then, what is provided with two of a normal port and a priority port as a carrier loading port is taken as a specific example.

  The handcart 20 for transporting medicines (see FIG. 1B) is commonly called a medicine cart, and has a traveling drive function or the like as long as a plurality of transporters 21 can be loaded and transported by hand. It may or may not be attached (for example, refer to Patent Document 3), and may or may not be equipped with an information carrier such as information that can specify a carrier arrangement (for example, refer to Patent Document 4), but can be visually observed such as an outer surface. One or a plurality of information display devices 30 are attached with the display surface exposed. In addition, although the pharmaceutical transport wheelbarrow 20 loaded with about 20 transporters 21 is illustrated, in the following description, numerical examples will be described on the assumption that the pharmaceutical transport handcart 20 can load up to 27 transporters 21. .

  The information display 30 (see FIGS. 1B and 1C) employs a label device in which electronic paper, a built-in electronic circuit, and a wireless receiving unit are integrated into a card shape, and information is displayed in characters, figures, and the like. In addition, the display contents can be displayed in a visually readable manner, the display contents can be easily rewritten, and the power consumption is low (see, for example, Patent Documents 5 and 6). The information indicator 30 is attached in a stretched state on the surface of the drug delivery cart 20 so that it can be easily seen, but may be detachable as long as it is fixed when the drug delivery cart 20 is used.

  Further, although not shown, a wireless transmitter that wirelessly accesses the information display 30 is provided as means for rewriting the display content of the information display 30. This wireless transmitter can send write data and a display switching command instructed from the control device to the information display 30 of the drug delivery cart 20 of the normal mouth or priority port of the transporter loading device 14. It is attached to the loader loading device 14 and the automatic dispensing device 13 in the vicinity thereof, or is attached to a dedicated table or column. A plurality of wireless transmitters may be used separately for, for example, the normal mouth and the priority mouth, and the wireless transmitter may be shared by identifying the cart for transporting the medicine and the like.

The control device includes a programmable information processing device such as a personal computer or a microprocessor system, and acquires prescription information by operating the console 11 or, if possible, downloading from an external prescription ordering system.
The prescription information may be prescription data as it is, or it may be a dispensing instruction that is extracted from the prescription data and processed to be suitable for dispensing. The prescription information includes information necessary for dispensing such as the type and dose of the drug. In addition to information that can be understood by the patient to be applied, such as the name and sex of the patient to whom the dispensed drug is to be applied, there is also information that can be used to know the drug delivery destination, such as the ward or operating room where the dispensed drug is to be applied. The prescription information is often included, but either one or both may not be included. For example, in the case of prescription information for preparing a set medicine whose contents of dispensing are determined in advance according to the surgical procedure in advance before the determination of the surgical location and the surgical target patient, there is information that indicates the application target patient and the drug delivery destination. It may not have been included at the time of dispensing.

  The control device is connected to them with an appropriate signal cable, LAN cable, etc., in order to cooperate with the carrier supply device 12, the automatic dispensing device 13, and the carrier loading device 14 based on the acquired prescription information. An operation command is transmitted to and a device status is received from them. In addition, the control device wirelessly accesses the information display 30 of the handcart 20 for transporting medicines brought to the normal port and the priority port of the transporter loading device 14 via a wireless transmitter. The display content can be rewritten. Each time the prescription information is acquired, the transport device supply device 12 sequentially supplies the empty transport device 21 to the automatic dispensing device 13, and the automatic dispensing device 13 inputs the prescription drug into the transport device 21 and the pre-filled transport device. 21 is delivered to the transporter loading device 14, and the transporter loading device 14 performs control such that the transporter 21 is loaded on the handcart 20 for carrying a medicine that is either a normal port or a priority port.

  Furthermore, when loading the transporter 21 into the drug delivery wheelbarrow 20 in the transporter loading device 14, the control device adopts the transport destination when the corresponding transport information is known from the corresponding prescription information. If you do not know, depending on the operation mode, use the drug delivery destination obtained by requesting input from the console 11, etc., determine the drug delivery destination of the transporter 21 to be loaded as much as possible, If the transport cart 20 is empty, the drug transport destination of the transporter 21 to be loaded is determined as the drug transport destination of the normal drug transport cart 20 and the information display of the drug transport cart 20 is displayed. It is displayed in the column of the transport destination display 31 of the container 30, and the transporter 21 is further loaded on the handcart 20 for transporting a medicine in the normal mouth.

  On the other hand, if the normal mouth drug transport handcart 20 is not empty and the drug transport destination has already been determined, the drug transport destination of the transporter 21 to be loaded and the normal mouth drug transport handcart 20 When the drug transport destination is compared and matched, the transporter 21 is loaded onto the normal delivery drug transport cart 20; however, when it does not match or the drug transport destination cannot be determined, the transporter 21 is loaded with the priority transport drug product. It is designed to be loaded on the handcart 20. In addition, when the drug transport cart 20 is fully loaded with the transporter 21, the operator 11 is urged to replace the empty transport cart 20 with the operator console 11, and the next transporter 21 is loaded with an empty drug transporter. It waits for the handcart 20 for conveyance.

  With such a control, the dispensing system 10 can be used as long as one drug transport handcart 20 is sufficient for the same container 21 of the drug transport destination while avoiding mixed loading with different drug transport destinations. If a single handcart 20 for transporting medicines is not sufficient, the handcart 20 for transporting medicines is loaded separately. In addition, the medicine delivery destination is displayed in the column of the delivery destination display 31 of the information display 30 attached to the handcart 20 for transporting the medicine (see FIG. 1C).

  Further (see FIG. 1 (c)), the control device displays in the column of the handcart information display 32 of the information display 30 the order of loading and the subsequent presence / absence of the handcart 20 for transporting the same medicine as the medicine transport destination. Wheelbarrow information indicating is displayed. A typical example of the display of the loading order is an integer starting from 1. The following presence / absence indication may be a character with or without following, but here, when there is a following, the next handcart 20 for transporting the medicine is used. When there is no following, the current loading order of the handcart 20 for transporting medicines is adopted, and the presence / absence of the following is indicated by the mismatch of the two numbers. In addition, in the column of the transporter information display 33 of the information display 30, the number of transporters 21 actually loaded on the drug transport handcart 20 and the maximum number of transporters 21 that can be loaded on the drug transport cart 20 are indicated. It is supposed to be displayed.

  In addition, when loading the transporter 21 into the drug delivery cart 20, the control device divides and loads the same transporter 21 as the drug transport destination into a plurality of drug transport carts 20 for prescription information and other application target patients. Based on the information that can be understood, it is determined whether or not a plurality of transporters 21 containing medicines to be applied to the same patient are divided and loaded into a plurality of handcarts 20 for transporting medicines. In the division information display 34 column of the information display 30 attached to the handcart 20, for example, the division name is specified as the division information, for example, the patient name and the division status of the division loading target carrier are shown. The number of cracks and the total number are displayed.

  About the dispensing system 10 of this Example 1, the use mode and operation | movement are demonstrated referring drawings. Fig. 1 (c) shows a display example when drug transport to the A ward is sufficient with a single drug transport wheelbarrow 20, and Fig. 1 (d) shows a plurality of drug transports for drug transport to the A ward. A display example when the handcart 20 is necessary, FIG. 1 (e) is a display example when a plurality of transporters 21 containing medicines for one patient are separately loaded into a plurality of handcarts 20 for transporting medicines. is there.

  Of the dispensing system 10, the console 11, the carrier supply device 12, the automatic dispensing device 13, and the carrier loading device 14 are connected by a signal cable or a carrier transport mechanism, and are fixedly installed in a hospital dispensing department or a hospital pharmacy. However, since the handcart 20 for transporting the medicine in the dispensing system 10 is for loading and transporting the transporter 21 containing the medicine, the medicine is used with the dispensing department where the transporter loading device 14 is installed. Go back and forth between the ward and other wards by hand. Since the transport destination display 31 by the information display 30 attached to the drug transport cart 20 is rewritten when the transport vehicle 21 is loaded into the drug transport cart 20, the drug transport cart 20 has a drug transport destination. When there are a plurality, they are used everywhere without being dedicated to any one place.

  In other words, regardless of where the medicine transporting wheelbarrow 20 that has returned to the dispensing location has returned, the normal port or priority port of the transporter loading device 14 is empty. If so, it will be put there. Then, prescription information is successively sent from the prescription ordering system, and further, prescription information inputted from the console 11 is added, and prescription information to be processed by the dispensing system 10 is accumulated in the control device of the console 11. However, when one or more prescriptions are accumulated, the prescription information is sequentially processed by the control device regardless of the presence of further prescription information, and an empty transporter 21 is supplied from the transporter supply device 12 under the control of the control device. Then, the medicine to be prescribed is put into the transporter 21 from the automatic dispensing device 13, and the transporter 21 containing the medicine is loaded onto the drug delivery handcart 20 by the transporter loading device 14.

  The prescription information stored and held in the control device is often at a steady level where the drug delivery destination is fixed and normal processing is sufficient in the order of the schedule, but the emergency level must be preferentially interrupted. In addition, there is a temporary level between the two, and a drug delivery destination is undecided. Of those prescription information, those at the steady level are scheduled to be processed together as much as possible at the same drug delivery destination. However, the prescription information at the emergency level and the temporary level is processed as the prescription information at the steady level. Since the interruption may occur in the middle of a series of processing, in order to achieve both the prevention of mixed loading and the improvement of efficiency, the loading of the carrying device 21 corresponding to the steady-state prescription information is performed with respect to the normal delivery cart 20 The loading of the transporter 21 corresponding to the emergency level, the extraordinary level, and the prescription information for which the drug transport destination has not been determined is performed on the drug transport cart 20 for the priority port.

Hereinafter, the display content of the information display unit 30 when loading the transporter 21 corresponding to the steady-level prescription information whose transport destination has been established into the normal delivery medicine handcart 20 will be described in detail.
When loading the container 21 containing the medicine into the normal mouth drug transport wheelbarrow 20, if the normal mouth drug transport wheelbarrow 20 is empty, it is loaded and the confirmed drug transport. For example, “A Ward” is displayed in the column of the transport destination display 31 of the information display 30 of the handcart 20 for transporting the medicine at the normal mouth. On the other hand, if the handcart 20 for transporting the medicine at the normal mouth is not empty, the drug transport destination of the transporter 21 to be loaded and the drug transport destination of the transporter 21 that has been loaded first are compared and matched. For example, the carrier 21 is loaded on the drug delivery cart 20 of the normal mouth, but if they do not match, the cart 21 is loaded on the drug delivery cart 20 of the priority mouth to prevent mixed loading.

  In this way, when the transporters 21 are successively loaded onto the normal delivery drug transport cart 20 and all of the same transport vehicles 21 at the drug delivery destination are stored in the single drug transport cart 20 (see FIG. 1C). For example, when the maximum loading number is 27 and the actual loading number is 10, the loading order is displayed in the column of the handcart information display 32 of the information display 30 of the medicine transporting handcart 20. “Kart 1/1” indicating that there is no follower is displayed, and the column of the carrier information display 33 indicates, for example, “tray 10 / 27 ”is displayed, and the division information display 34 column is cleared and displayed blank, for example, because there is no division loading related to one patient.

  In addition, when the number of the carriers 21 that are the same in the “A Ward” is a large number of containers 21 and exceeds, for example, 45, which is the maximum loading number of one cart 20 for transporting medicines, The carts 20 do not fit in the single drug transport cart 20 and are loaded separately into the two carts 20 for drug transport. In that case (see FIG. 1 (d)), the first drug transport cart 20 is loaded with a maximum of 27 transporters 21, and the second drug transport cart 20 has the rest. Eighteen transporters 21 are loaded. And about the information indicator 30a (30) of the first handcart 20 for transporting medicines, the column of the handcart information display 32 indicates that the order of loading is the first and the second succeeding. For example, “Cart 1/2” is displayed, “Tray 27/27” indicating the actual load number and the maximum load number of the carrier 21 is displayed in the column of the carrier information display 33, and the column of the division information display 34 is Cleared if there is no split loading for one patient.

In addition, for the information display 30b (30) of the second handcart 20 for transporting medicines, in the column of the handcart information display 32, the loading order is second, there is no following, and the second is last. For example, “Cart 2/2” is displayed, “Tray 18/27” indicating the actual load number and the maximum load number of the transport device 21 is displayed in the column of the transport device information display 33, and the division information display 34 The field is cleared if there is no split loading for one patient.
However, for example, a plurality of, for example, three transporters 21 related to one patient are loaded on the first drug transport cart 20, for example, and the remaining two are loaded on the second drug transport cart 20. When loaded (refer to FIG. 1 (e)), in response to such divided loading related to one patient, the division information display 34 column of the information display 30a includes the number of fragments and the total number “1” along with the patient name. / 3 ”is displayed, and the number of pieces and the total number“ 2/3 ”are displayed in the division information display 34 column of the information display 30b together with the patient name.

  Furthermore, although illustration is omitted, in the case where the number of the same transport devices 21 as the drug transport destination is larger, for example 66, the transport devices 21 are loaded into three hand carts 20 for transporting the drug, and the first drug product is loaded. Regarding the information display 30 of the handcart 20 for transportation, “cart 1/2” is displayed in the column of the handcart information display 32, “tray 27/27” is displayed in the column of the transporter information display 33, As for the information display 30 of the handcart 20 for transporting the eye medicine, “cart 2/3” is displayed in the handcart information display 32 column, and “tray 27/27” is displayed in the transporter information display 33 column. As for the information display 30 of the second cart 20 for transporting medicines, “cart 3/3” is displayed in the column of the handcart information display 32 and “tray 12/27” is displayed in the column of the transporter information display 33. Is displayed.

  Note that the prescription information has been accumulated in advance or the prescription information has been accumulated quickly, so that the total number of the carriers 21 with the same drug delivery destination, and hence the total number of the handcarts 20 with the same drug delivery destination, for example “3”. May be displayed in the column of the handcart information display 32 of the information display 30 of the first cart 20 for transporting medicines. Even when the accumulation of such prescription information is not in time for the completion of loading into the first drug transport cart 20, the information display 30 of the first drug transport cart 20 is used as a wireless transmitter. If you are within the access range or if you are prompted to enter the access range, the handcart information display 32 field may be rewritten from “Cart 1/2” to “Cart 1/3”. good.

  In this way, the handcart 20 for transporting the medicine is shared by any transport destination, and the person in charge of transporting the handcart 20 for transporting the medicine to the medicine transport destination by hand is also the person in charge of collecting the medicine at the drug transport destination. However, the work in charge can be performed easily and accurately. That is, each person in charge can easily grasp and confirm the transportation destination by visually checking the information display 30 attached to the handcart 20 for transporting the medicine and visually reading the display content. It is possible to easily grasp whether there is only one or more or two or more carts for transporting medicines to be moved to a place, and a drug applied to one patient. Are accommodated in a plurality of transporters 21, and even when these transporters 21 are divided and loaded into a plurality of handcarts 20 for transporting medicines, not only the patient name that identifies the patient to be divided and loaded, but also the carriers to be divided and loaded. It is possible to easily grasp up to 21 divisions.

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In addition, in the said Example, although the exclusive carrier supply apparatus 12 was provided in the uppermost stream of the carrier conveyance path, explicit installation of the carrier supply apparatus 12 is not essential, and a carrier supply apparatus is a carrier loading apparatus. 14 may also be used (see, for example, Patent Document 4), may be incorporated in any of the automatic dispensing devices 13, or may be dispersed in several automatic dispensing devices 13.
Further, in the above embodiment, the transporting device transport mechanism is linear and only performs one-way transport. However, the transporting device transport path may be bent or branched, and may be circulated transport or bi-directional transport. You may come to do.

Furthermore, in the above embodiment, the control device is provided on the console 11, but the installation location of the control device is also arbitrary, and the adoption of centralized control and distributed control is also arbitrary. For example, an information processing function and a control function for displaying each display 31 to 34 on the information display 30 from a control device responsible for cooperative control of the transport device supply device 12, the automatic dispensing device 13, and the transport device loading device 14. It may be removed and shared by another device. In this case, the console 11 can be omitted.
In the above embodiment, the wireless method is adopted for accessing the information display 30. However, the access method to the information display 30 is not limited to the wireless method, and for example, an optical method may be used. A transmission method may be used.

10 ... dispensing system, 11 ... console (control device),
12 ... Carryer supply device, 13 ... Automatic dispensing device, 14 ... Carryer loading device,
20 ... Wheelbarrow for drug delivery (medicine cart), 21 ... Carryer (tray),
30, 30a, 30b ... Information display (electronic paper),
31 ... Transport destination display, 32 ... Wheelbarrow information display, 33 ... Carryer information display, 34 ... Division information display

Claims (2)

  Dispensing device that puts the contained medicine into the transporter and sends it out, and a plurality of medicines that can be loaded with a plurality of transporters that are handcarts that are attached to the visible part of the information display that displays the information in a visually readable manner A transport handcart, and a transporter loading device that receives the transporter from the dispensing device and loads it into the pharmaceutical transport cart, and cooperates with the dispensing device and the transporter loading device based on prescription information. In the dispensing system to be used, the information display device is adapted to rewrite the display content, and means for rewriting the display content of the information display device is provided. Based on prescribing information and other information to know the drug delivery destination, the same carrier for the drug delivery destination can be combined into one if it is enough while avoiding mixed loading with different drug delivery destinations. If one unit is not enough, it is divided into multiple units and loaded, and the information display attached to the loading cart for the drug transporter displays the drug transport destination and the drug transporter at the same drug transport destination. A dispensing system characterized by displaying handcart information indicating the order of loading related to the cart and the presence or absence of the following.   When loading the transporter into the drug delivery cart, the same transporter of the drug transport destination is divided into a plurality of units, and the drug applied to the same patient is stored based on prescription information and other information that can be understood by the patient to be applied It is determined whether or not a plurality of carriers are divided and loaded into a plurality of drug delivery carts, and at the time of divided loading, the information display attached to the loading drug delivery cart and the patient to be divided and loaded 2. The dispensing system according to claim 1, wherein the division information indicating the division status of the carrier to be divided and loaded is displayed.

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