JP7082738B2 - Drug information providing device, server, medium, drug information providing method and program - Google Patents

Description

The present invention relates to a drug information providing device, a server, a medium, a drug information providing method and a program.

Conventionally, in a pharmacy, based on a prescription submitted by a patient, for example, a computer having a receipt computer function and a drug history management function as disclosed in Patent Document 1 is used to provide drug information to the patient. Was being offered.

Japanese Unexamined Patent Publication No. 2011-118535

However, the technique disclosed in Patent Document 1 described above does not support multiple languages, and in the case of supporting multiple languages, it is necessary to translate the provided drug information. Therefore, in order to make the existing system compatible with multiple languages, a great deal of labor was required for translation work, data repair work, and the like.

The present invention has been made in view of such a situation, and an object of the present invention is to easily support multiple languages in providing drug information.

In order to achieve the above object, the drug information providing device of one aspect of the present invention is
Drug information acquisition means to acquire information on drugs provided to patients,
A language acquisition means for acquiring the language used by the patient to whom the drug is provided, and a language acquisition means.
An iconographic acquisition means for acquiring an image represented in the language of use acquired by the language acquisition means, wherein at least one of the timing of use, the method of use, or precautions of the drug provided to the patient is obtained.
A drug information providing means for providing information on a drug to the patient based on the information on the drug acquired by the drug information acquisition means and the iconography acquired by the iconographic acquisition means.
It is characterized by having.

According to the present invention, it is possible to easily support multiple languages regarding the provision of drug information.

It is a schematic diagram which shows the outline of the drug information provision system S which concerns on one Embodiment of this invention. It is a schematic diagram which shows the preparation example of a drug manual. It is a schematic diagram for explaining an iconography. It is a block diagram which shows the hardware structure of the pharmacy terminal 1 which concerns on one Embodiment of this invention. Of the functional configurations of the pharmacy terminal 1 of FIG. 4, it is a functional block diagram showing a functional configuration for executing a drug information providing process. It is a flowchart explaining the flow of the drug information providing process executed by the pharmacy terminal 1 of FIG. 4 having the functional configuration of FIG.

Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings.

[Overview of drug information provision system]
FIG. 1 is a schematic diagram showing an outline of a drug information providing system S according to an embodiment of the present invention.

As shown in FIG. 1, the drug information providing system S includes a pharmacy terminal 1, a drug history information management server 2, and a drug information management server 3.

The pharmacy terminal 1 acquires information on the prescribed drug from the drug history information management server 2 and the drug information management server 3 using the information described in the prescription, and based on the acquired drug information, the pharmacy terminal 1 of the drug. Create a document (hereinafter referred to as "drug manual") containing information on the drug such as how to take it and precautions.
Further, the pharmacy terminal 1 outputs the created drug manual via a display or a printer.

The drug history information management server 2 manages the patient's drug history information and provides the patient's personal information and drug history information to the pharmacy terminal 1 in response to a request from the pharmacy terminal 1.

The drug information management server 3 accumulates information on various drugs and provides drug information of the requested drug to the pharmacy terminal 1 in response to a request from the pharmacy terminal 1.

The drug information providing system S configured in this way has a function of automatically creating a drug manual from a prescription. The created drug manual is output to a screen or a printer and provided to the patient at the time of medication instruction.

Here, the drug manual provided by the drug information providing system S will be described.
FIG. 2 is a schematic diagram showing an example of creating a drug manual.
The drug manual is used as explanatory material and provided to the patient when the pharmacist gives the patient medication instruction. In addition, the patient refers to the drug manual when instructing or taking the drug. That is, the pharmacist gives medication instruction using the created drug manual, and the patient who receives the drug manual takes the drug with reference to the drug manual.

Specifically, such a drug manual is as shown in FIG.
Item C1, indicating the name, composition, and properties of the drug,
Item C2 showing the action and effect of the drug,
Item C3, which encourages patients to convey information to doctors and pharmacists,
Item C4 of the iconography on which an icon (pictogram) showing the method of taking the drug, the timing of taking the drug, precautions, etc. is posted,
Item C5, which indicates attention in daily life,
Item C6, which shows information on the side effects of the drug,
Item C7 indicating the storage method of the drug, etc.
Consists of.

Here, the iconography published in the iconography display item will be specifically described.
FIG. 3 is a schematic diagram for explaining an iconography.
As shown in FIG. 3A, the iconographic image displayed in the iconographic display item is composed of an iconographic body and an explanation of the iconography.
The iconography body is an iconography (pictogram) of a design (universal design) whose meaning can be visually recognized regardless of the difference in language. As this icon, either one designed exclusively for use in the drug information provision system S or one designed for social common use by public institutions such as the national government and local governments can be used. It is possible.
Further, depending on the iconography used, the iconography body is not composed only of the picture, but is composed including the wording supplementing the iconography (hereinafter, referred to as "the wording in the iconography body").

Specifically, as shown in FIG. 3 (b), in the case of the iconography P1, the image body showing that it is an internal medicine by the gesture of taking the medicine, and the "internal medicine (internal medicine) that helps to understand the meaning of the image body. It consists of an explanation of the iconography "Drinking medicine)".
In addition, the iconography body is basically composed only of a picture, but depending on the iconography, words that supplement the iconography are described. For example, in the case of the image P5, the characters "grapefruit juice", which is prohibited to be taken together with the drug, are written in the image body.

In the drug information providing system S of the present embodiment, a drug manual can be created and provided from a prescription, and in response to the increasing number of foreigners visiting Japan (foreigners who do not understand Japanese) in recent years, A drug description is created by translating the iconography into the patient's language. That is, in the drug information providing system S of the present embodiment, a drug manual in which the description of the iconography and the wording in the iconography body are translated into the language used is created.
In the drug manual shown in FIG. 2, as shown in FIG. 3 (b), the iconographic image is displayed in the standard language (Japanese in the present embodiment) corresponding to the language used by the patient. , The iconography is changed to the patient's language.
Specifically, when the language used is English, the explanation of the Japanese "oral medicine" is translated into English in the iconography P1, such as "Oral medicine (Drink medicine)". It is displayed in the wording of.

In the drug manual of the present embodiment, the patient confirms the image translated into the language used, so that the content of the drug manual can be intuitively understood by the image body having a universal design, and further translated. It can be understood more accurately by the explanation of the image and the wording in the image body, and as a result, various information about the drug can be grasped.
Further, in the drug manual of the present embodiment, even a pharmacist who is unfamiliar with the language used by the patient can make the patient understand the contents and explain the drug smoothly with the image body having a universal design. ..
That is, according to the drug manual output by the drug information providing system S, both the explaining side (pharmacist) and the receiving side (patient) understand the common language because the explanation can be made through the image. It does not have to be, and it can promote the patient's understanding of the drug.

In addition, when translating a document containing existing medication information, a great deal of effort is required to incorporate it into the existing medical information provision system. The information provision system can be easily made to support multiple languages.

[Hardware configuration]
FIG. 4 is a block diagram showing a hardware configuration of a pharmacy terminal 1 according to an embodiment of the present invention.
The pharmacy terminal 1 is configured as, for example, a stationary PC (Personal Computer).

As shown in FIG. 4, the pharmacy terminal 1 has a CPU (Central Processing Unit) 11, a ROM (Read Only Memory) 12, a RAM (Random Access Memory) 13, a bus 14, an input / output interface 15, and an image pickup. It includes a unit 16, an input unit 17, an output unit 18, a storage unit 19, a communication unit 20, and a drive 21.

The CPU 11 executes various processes according to the program recorded in the ROM 12 or the program loaded from the storage unit 19 into the RAM 13.

Data and the like necessary for the CPU 11 to execute various processes are also appropriately stored in the RAM 13.

The CPU 11, ROM 12 and RAM 13 are connected to each other via the bus 14. An input / output interface 15 is also connected to the bus 14. An image pickup unit 16, an input unit 17, an output unit 18, a storage unit 19, a communication unit 20, and a drive 21 are connected to the input / output interface 15.

Although not shown, the image pickup unit 16 includes an optical lens unit and an image sensor.

The optical lens unit is composed of a lens that collects light, such as a focus lens and a zoom lens, in order to photograph a subject.
The focus lens is a lens that forms a subject image on the light receiving surface of the image sensor. A zoom lens is a lens that freely changes the focal length within a certain range.
The optical lens unit is also provided with peripheral circuits for adjusting setting parameters such as focus, exposure, and white balance, if necessary.

The image sensor is composed of a photoelectric conversion element, an AFE (Analog Front End), and the like.
The photoelectric conversion element is composed of, for example, a CMOS (Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor) type photoelectric conversion element or the like. A subject image is incident on the photoelectric conversion element from the optical lens unit. Therefore, the photoelectric conversion element performs photoelectric conversion (imaging) of the subject image, accumulates an image signal for a certain period of time, and sequentially supplies the accumulated image signal as an analog signal to AFE.
The AFE executes various signal processing such as A / D (Analog / Digital) conversion processing on the analog image signal. A digital signal is generated by various signal processing, is output as an output signal of the image pickup unit 16, and is appropriately supplied as image data to the CPU 11 or an image processing unit (not shown).

The input unit 17 is provided with various buttons and the like, and inputs various information according to a user's instruction operation. Further, the input unit 17 includes a microphone and a scanner, and inputs information such as voice, characters, figures, and prescriptions as electronic data.

The output unit 18 is composed of a display, a speaker, a printer, and the like, and outputs characters, images, sounds, and the like.

The storage unit 19 is composed of a hard disk, a DRAM (Dynamic Random Access Memory), or the like, and stores various image data.

The communication unit 20 controls communication with other devices (not shown) via a network including the Internet.

A removable media 31 made of a magnetic disk, an optical disk, a magneto-optical disk, a semiconductor memory, or the like is appropriately mounted on the drive 21. The program read from the removable media 31 by the drive 21 is installed in the storage unit 19 as needed. Further, the removable media 31 can also store various data such as image data stored in the storage unit 19 in the same manner as the storage unit 19.

Here, the drug history information management server 2 and the drug information management server 3, which are external servers, will be described.
The medication history information management server 2 is configured as a server in which a medical receipt computer and an electronic medication history management computer are integrated. The management data can be accessed from the pharmacy terminal 1 by logging in to the drug history information management server 2 using the individual ID and password of the pharmacist, and information such as the drug history, medical history, language used, etc. of the target patient can be accessed. Can be provided.

Further, the drug information management server 3 is configured as a server that manages a database in which drug information of various drugs is stored, and provides drug information in response to an inquiry from the pharmacy terminal 1. Further, the drug information management server 3 manages an image corresponding to the drug (an image expressed in a standard language) and an image obtained by translating the image into various languages.

[Functional configuration]
FIG. 5 is a functional block diagram showing a functional configuration for executing a drug information providing process among the functional configurations of the pharmacy terminal 1 of FIG.

The drug information provision process is a series of processes for providing a drug manual that can be understood by a patient who uses a language different from the language in which the prescription is written, based on the prescription obtained from the patient.

When the drug information providing process is executed, as shown in FIG. 5, in the CPU 11, the prescription information acquisition unit 51, the language used acquisition unit 52, the drug information acquisition unit 53, the image acquisition unit 54, and the drug are executed. The instruction manual creation unit 55 and the output control unit 56 function.
Further, a prescription information storage unit 71 and a drug manual information storage unit 72 are set in one area of the storage unit 19.
The prescription information storage unit 71 stores prescription information (for example, prescription date and time, patient name, prescription drug name, prescription drug amount, etc.) obtained by reading the prescription.
The drug manual information storage unit 72 stores the created drug manual data.

The prescription information acquisition unit 51 acquires the information described in the prescription such as the name of the patient and the name of the drug to be prescribed by reading the prescription printed on the paper medium through the input unit 17 such as a scanner.
Further, the prescription information acquisition unit 51 stores the acquired prescription information in the prescription information storage unit 71.

The language used acquisition unit 52 acquires the language used by the patient acquired by the prescription information acquisition unit 51 by making an inquiry to the drug history information management server 2 via the communication unit 20.

The drug information acquisition unit 53 makes an inquiry to the drug information management server 3 via the communication unit 20 to acquire drug information acquired by the prescription information acquisition unit 51 and corresponding to the prescription drug name.

The image acquisition unit 54 acquires an image corresponding to the language used acquired by the language acquisition unit 52 by making an inquiry to the drug information management server 3 via the communication unit 20. For example, when the language used is English, the image acquisition unit 54 may use the drug information management server 3 to translate the image into English, which is the language used by the patient, instead of the standard Japanese image (with the image body). , Explanation of the iconography).

The drug manual creation unit 55 creates a drug manual from the drug information acquired by the drug information acquisition unit 53 and the image corresponding to the language used acquired by the image acquisition unit 54 (the image body and the explanation of the image). do. The created drug manual data is stored in the drug manual information storage unit 72. As a result, a drug manual is created in which the iconographic items are translated into the patient's language. At this time, since the area of the drug manual is limited, the image corresponding to the drug is given priority, and the drug manual creation unit 55 uses the image according to the size of the area in which the image can be arranged. You may adjust the number.

The output control unit 56 controls the output unit 18 so as to output or print out the drug manual created by the drug manual creation unit 55 on the screen. This will provide the patient with a drug description.

[Flow of drug information provision process]
FIG. 6 is a flowchart illustrating a flow of drug information providing processing executed by the pharmacy terminal 1 of FIG. 4 having the functional configuration of FIG.

The drug information providing process is started by the operation of starting the drug information providing process to the input unit 17 by the user.

In step S11, the prescription information acquisition unit 51 reads the prescription printed on the paper medium through the input unit 17 such as a scanner, and obtains the information described in the prescription such as the name of the patient and the name of the drug to be prescribed. get. The acquired prescription information is stored in the prescription information storage unit 71.

In step S12, the language used acquisition unit 52 acquires the language used by the patient acquired by the prescription information acquisition unit 51 by making an inquiry to the drug history information management server 2 via the communication unit 20.

In step S13, the drug information acquisition unit 53 makes an inquiry to the drug information management server 3 via the communication unit 20 to obtain drug information corresponding to the prescription drug name acquired by the prescription information acquisition unit 51. get.

In step S14, the image acquisition unit 54 acquires an image corresponding to the language used acquired by the language used acquisition unit 52 by making an inquiry to the drug information management server 3 via the communication unit 20. For example, when the language used is English, the image acquisition unit 54 acquires an image translated into English (an icon main body and an explanation of the image) from the drug information management server 3.

In step S14, the drug manual creation unit 55 uses the drug information acquired by the drug information acquisition unit 53 and the image corresponding to the language used acquired by the image acquisition unit 54 (the image body and the description of the image). Create instructions. The created drug manual data is stored in the drug manual information storage unit 72.

In step S15, the output control unit 56 controls the output unit 18 so as to output the drug manual created by the drug manual creation unit 55 on the screen or print it out. This will provide the patient with a drug description.
After that, the drug information provision process ends.

As described above, in the drug manual of the present embodiment, the patient confirms the image translated into the language used, so that the content of the drug manual can be intuitively understood by the image body having a universal design. Furthermore, it can be understood more accurately by the explanation of the translated image and the wording in the image body, and as a result, various information about the drug can be grasped.
Further, in the drug manual of the present embodiment, even a pharmacist who is unfamiliar with the language used by the patient can make the patient understand the contents and explain the drug smoothly with the image body having a universal design. ..
That is, according to the drug manual output by the drug information providing system S, both the explaining side (pharmacist) and the receiving side (patient) understand the common language because the explanation can be made through the image. It does not have to be, and it can promote the patient's understanding of the drug.

In addition, when translating a document containing existing medication information, a great deal of effort is required to incorporate it into the existing medical information provision system. The information provision system can be easily made to support multiple languages.
Therefore, in the drug information providing system S, it is possible to easily support the provision of drug information in multiple languages.

The present invention is not limited to the above-described embodiment, and modifications, improvements, and the like to the extent that the object of the present invention can be achieved are included in the present invention.

In the above-described embodiment, the information on the language used by the patient and the drug information are configured to be acquired from an external server, but the present invention is not limited to this, and the information may be stored in the pharmacy terminal 1 in advance. In this case, the pharmacy terminal 1 alone can output a drug manual corresponding to the language used by the patient.

Further, in the above-described embodiment, the language used is automatically acquired from the prescription, but the language used acquired from the pharmacist's interview with the patient or the like is input via the input unit 17. You may.

Further, in the above-described embodiment, the pre-translated iconography is used, but the wording in the iconography body and the description of the iconography can be replaced, and the iconography may be configured to be translated in real time. By translating in real time, it becomes possible to flexibly translate into various languages and provide drug information.

Further, in the above-described embodiment, only the iconography of the drug information is translated into the language used, but when the iconography is posted in the predetermined explanatory text, the one translated into the language used by the patient is used. It may be configured as follows.

Further, in the above-described embodiment, as the drug information stored in the drug information management server 3, the entire drug manual including an image in a standard language (for example, Japanese) may be stored in advance. In this case, the drug manual creation unit 55 includes the entire drug manual including the image of the standard language, and the image corresponding to the language used acquired by the image acquisition unit 54 (the image body and the description of the image). Therefore, the iconography of the standard language may be replaced with the iconography corresponding to the language used to create a drug manual corresponding to the language used.

Further, in the above-described embodiment, regarding the provision of the drug manual to the patient, not only the drug manual is actually provided to the patient, but also the drug manual, which is a stage before the actual provision, is output on the screen or It may include printing out. Furthermore, regarding the provision of this drug manual to the patient, it is not necessary to actually provide the drug manual to the patient, and the drug manual, which is the pre-stage of the actual provision, is output on the screen or printed out. You can just do it. That is, providing the drug manual to the patient means all or part of the actions or actions required to provide the patient with the drug manual created by the drug manual preparation unit 55.

Further, in the above-described embodiment, the drug description is an example representing various media in which information on the drug prescribed to the patient is described, for example, a drug bag, a drug information providing document, and a drug information management guidance document at discharge. , Medical statement, dispensing statement, receipt, medical examination ticket, receipt, explanation document about treatment, explanation document about medicine, various notebooks such as medicine notebook, various cards distributed to individual patients, heat seal of medicine, paper Alternatively, the invention can be applied to documents provided to a patient in connection with prescribing a drug, such as vinyl sachets.

Further, in the above-described embodiment, the pharmacy terminal 1 to which the present invention is applied has been described by taking a stationary PC as an example, but the present invention is not particularly limited thereto.
For example, the present invention can be generally applied to electronic devices having a drug information providing processing function. Specifically, for example, the present invention can be applied to a notebook personal computer, a printer, a television receiver, a video camera, a portable navigation device, a mobile phone, a smartphone, a portable game machine, and the like.

The series of processes described above can be executed by hardware or software.
In other words, the functional configuration of FIG. 5 is merely an example and is not particularly limited. That is, it suffices if the pharmacy terminal 1 is provided with a function capable of executing the above-mentioned series of processes as a whole, and what kind of functional block is used to realize this function is not particularly limited to the example of FIG.
Further, one functional block may be configured by a single piece of hardware, a single piece of software, or a combination thereof.

When a series of processes are executed by software, a program constituting the software is installed in a computer or the like from a network or a recording medium.
The computer may be a computer embedded in dedicated hardware. Further, the computer may be a computer capable of executing various functions by installing various programs, for example, a general-purpose personal computer.

The recording medium including such a program is not only composed of the removable media 31 of FIG. 4 distributed separately from the main body of the device in order to provide the program to the user, but also is preliminarily incorporated in the main body of the device of the user. It is composed of recording media and the like provided in. The removable media 31 is composed of, for example, a magnetic disk (including a floppy disk), an optical disk, a magneto-optical disk, or the like. The optical disc is composed of, for example, a CD-ROM (Compact Disk-Read Only Memory), a DVD (Digital Versaille Disc), a Blu-ray (registered trademark) Disc (Blu-ray disc), or the like. The magneto-optical disk is composed of MD (Mini-Disc) or the like. Further, the recording medium provided to the user in a state of being preliminarily incorporated in the apparatus main body is composed of, for example, a ROM 12 in FIG. 4 in which a program is recorded, a hard disk included in the storage unit 19 in FIG. 4, and the like.

In this specification, the steps for describing a program to be recorded on a recording medium are not only processed in chronological order but also in parallel or individually, even if they are not necessarily processed in chronological order. It also includes the processing to be executed.
Further, in the present specification, the term of the system means an overall device composed of a plurality of devices, a plurality of means, and the like.

Although some embodiments of the present invention have been described above, these embodiments are merely examples and do not limit the technical scope of the present invention. The present invention can take various other embodiments, and further, various modifications such as omission and substitution can be made without departing from the gist of the present invention. These embodiments and variations thereof are included in the scope and gist of the invention described in the present specification and the like, and are also included in the scope of the invention described in the claims and the equivalent scope thereof.

1 ... Pharmacy terminal, 2 ... Drug history information management server, 3 ... Drug information management server, 11 ... CPU, 12 ... ROM, 13 ... RAM, 14 ... Bus, 15 ... Input / output interface, 16 ... Imaging unit, 17 ... Input unit, 18 ... Output unit, 19 ... Storage unit, 20 ... Communication unit, 21 ... Drive, 31 ... Removable media, 51 ... Prescription information acquisition department, 52 ... Language acquisition department, 53 ... Drug information acquisition department, 54 ... Image acquisition department, 55 ... Drug manual creation department , 56 ... Output control unit, 71 ... Prescription information storage unit, 72 ... Drug manual storage unit, S ... Drug information provision system

Claims (11)

Drug information acquisition means to acquire information on drugs provided to patients,
An iconographic acquisition means for acquiring a pictogram containing characters expressed in a first language, at least one of the timing, method of use, or precautions of the drug provided to the patient.
Drug information providing means for providing information on a drug to the patient based on the information on the drug acquired by the drug information acquisition means and the pictogram containing the characters acquired by the iconography acquisition means. When,
Equipped with
The drug information providing means has information on the drug expressed in a second language different from the first language, and information on the drug having a pictogram containing the characters expressed in the first language. Provide,
The pictogram containing the characters is prioritized and includes the characters that can be placed in the area where the information about the drug is represented according to the size of the area where the information about the drug is represented and the priority. Display pictograms,
A drug information providing device characterized by this. A means for creating a drug manual based on the information on the drug and a pictogram containing the characters acquired by the iconography acquisition means.
The drug information providing means provides the drug manual created by the producing means as information about the drug.
The drug information providing device according to claim 1. The drug information acquisition means acquires information on the drug based on information on a prescription issued to the patient.
The drug information providing device according to claim 1 or 2, characterized in that. The precautions represented by the pictogram containing the characters include at least one of the precautions for taking the drug, the precautions for swallowing, or the precautions after taking the drug.
The drug information providing device according to any one of claims 1 to 3, wherein the drug information providing device is characterized. Pictograms containing the above characters include universally designed pictograms.
The drug information providing device according to any one of claims 1 to 4, wherein the drug information providing device is characterized. The drug information providing means provides information on the drug by screen display or printing.
The drug information providing device according to any one of claims 1 to 5, wherein the drug information providing device is characterized. A pharmacy terminal that provides information about a drug provided to a patient in a second language and a pictogram containing characters in a first language different from the second language. A server that is configured to be communicable
In response to a request from the pharmacy terminal, at least one of the drug information expressed in the second language and the drug's time of use, method of use, or precautions is expressed in the first language. A pictogram containing the above characters is provided to the pharmacy terminal.
The pictogram containing the characters is prioritized and includes the characters that can be placed in the area where the information about the drug is represented according to the size of the area where the information about the drug is represented and the priority. A server characterized by displaying pictograms. It is a drug information providing method executed by the drug information providing device.
The drug information acquisition step to acquire information on the drug provided to the patient,
An iconographic acquisition step of acquiring a pictogram containing characters expressed in a first language, at least one of the timing, method of use, or precautions of the agent provided to the patient.
A drug information providing step for providing information on a drug to the patient based on the information on the drug acquired in the drug information acquisition step and a pictogram containing the characters acquired in the iconography acquisition step. When,
Including
In the drug information providing step, information about the drug having information on the drug expressed in a second language different from the first language and a pictogram containing the characters expressed in the first language. Provide,
The pictogram containing the characters is prioritized and includes the characters that can be placed in the area where the information about the drug is represented according to the size of the area where the information about the drug is represented and the priority. Display pictograms,
A method for providing drug information, which is characterized by the fact that. Computer,
Drug information acquisition means to acquire information on drugs provided to patients,
An iconographic means for obtaining a pictogram containing characters expressed in a first language, at least one of the timing, method of use, or precautions of the drug provided to the patient.
Drug information providing means for providing information on a drug to the patient based on the information on the drug acquired by the drug information acquisition means and the pictogram containing the characters acquired by the iconography acquisition means. ,
To function as
The drug information providing means has information on the drug expressed in a second language different from the first language, and information on the drug having a pictogram containing the characters expressed in the first language. Provide,
The pictogram containing the characters is prioritized and includes the characters that can be placed in the area where the information about the drug is represented according to the size of the area where the information about the drug is represented and the priority. Display pictograms,
A program characterized by that. A pharmacy terminal that provides information about a drug provided to a patient in a second language and a pictogram containing characters in a first language different from the second language. This is a drug information provision method executed by a communicable server.
In response to a request from the pharmacy terminal, at least one of the drug information expressed in the second language and the drug's time of use, method of use, or precautions is expressed in the first language. Including a drug information providing step of providing a pictogram including the characters to the pharmacy terminal.
The pictogram containing the characters is prioritized and includes the characters that can be placed in the area where the information about the drug is represented according to the size of the area where the information about the drug is represented and the priority. A method for providing drug information, which comprises displaying a pictogram. A pharmacy terminal that provides information about a drug provided to a patient in a second language and a pictogram containing characters in a first language different from the second language. Computers that make up a server that is configured to be communicable,
In response to a request from the pharmacy terminal, at least one of the drug information expressed in the second language and the drug's time of use, method of use, or precautions is expressed in the first language. The pictogram containing the above characters is made to function as a drug information providing means for providing the pharmacy terminal.
The pictogram containing the character is prioritized and includes the character that can be placed in the area where the information about the drug is represented according to the size of the area where the information about the drug is represented and the priority. A program characterized by displaying pictograms.

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