JP7212851B2 - Powder drug dispensing business support system - Google Patents

Description

TECHNICAL FIELD The present invention relates to a powdered medicine dispensing business support system for providing powdered medicines to patients based on prescription data in medical facilities such as hospitals, clinics, and dispensing pharmacies.

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, when medicines are provided to patients at medical facilities, dispensing work has been performed in which a doctor examines the patient and issues a prescription, and a dispensing pharmacy receives the prescription and dispenses the medicine.
In recent years, dispensing equipment for supporting such dispensing work has been introduced into the medical field and used in various processes in the dispensing work. Such dispensing equipment includes, for example, a drug weighing device for weighing and inspecting drugs, a drug packaging device for packaging drugs, and the like.

However, it takes a lot of time and effort to input prescription-related data to a plurality of dispensing devices one by one, and to make settings according to the prescription, which complicates the work. Therefore, in some cases, a control device for controlling a plurality of dispensing devices is further provided, a dispensing business support system is constructed to centrally manage each dispensing device, and dispensing business is performed using this dispensing business support system.

For example, Patent Literature 1 discloses a dispensing device control device that can be used in such a dispensing business support system.
With the dispensing device control device disclosed in Patent Document 1, it is possible to easily set multiple models or units of dispensing devices by the same method, and to centrally manage and accurately grasp the error occurrence status. It has a possible configuration.

Japanese Patent No. 4580456

By the way, in conventional dispensing work, after a user weighs a drug with a drug weighing device, the user manually puts the weighed drug into a drug container, carries the drug container to a drug packing machine, and then weighs the drug with the drug packing machine. Work was being done to wrap the
In other words, although it is possible to automatically transfer prescription data between each dispensing device and configure settings according to the prescription of each dispensing device, there is still a lot of work that must be performed manually by people, and the efficiency of dispensing work is expected to increase. was desired.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION Accordingly, an object of the present invention is to realize more efficient dispensing work by further automating the dispensing work.

One aspect of the present invention developed to solve the above problems is a dispensing device having a drug weighing device, a drug dispensing machine, and a fully automatic powdered drug dispensing machine, and providing data on prescription to patients. A fully automatic powder medicine dispensing machine comprising a control device for controlling a dispensing machine based on prescription data including information on the powdered medicine to be administered, and a drug container containing the powdered drug, wherein the fully automatic powdered drug dispensing machine dispenses the powdered drug discharged from the drug container. A unit and a drug packaging device are provided inside, and a fully automatic powdered drug packaging machine is used to discharge the powdered drug from the drug container to the distribution unit based on the prescription data, and the powdered drug discharged to the distribution unit. A fully automatic dispensing operation including an operation of dividing into a predetermined number and an operation of individually packaging the divided powdered medicine by the medicine packaging device is possible, and at least one of the control device and the fully automatic powdered medicine packaging machine Based on the data, it is possible to perform a determination operation to determine whether or not all of the powdered medicines to be provided to the patient can be packaged by the fully automatic powdered medicine packaging machine alone in the dispensing equipment. It is a powder medicine dispensing business support system .
A preferred embodiment is characterized in that the control device is connected to each of a drug weighing device, a drug dispensing machine, and a fully automatic powdered drug dispensing machine, which are dispensing devices, in a state in which data can be transmitted and received via a communication network. It is a powder medicine dispensing business support system.
In a further preferred embodiment, when it is determined as a result of the determination operation that packaging is possible only by a fully automatic powder medicine packaging operation by a fully automatic powder medicine packaging machine , all of the powder medicines to be provided to the patient are prepared based on the prescription data. , a powder medicine dispensing operation support system that includes the operation of dispensing only by fully automatic dispensing operation by a fully automatic powder medicine dispensing machine .
In a further preferred embodiment, when it is determined as a result of the determination operation that the powder medicine to be provided to the patient is not possible to be packed only by the fully automatic packing operation by the fully automatic powder medicine packing machine , all of the powder medicine to be provided to the patient based on the prescription data is It is a powdered medicine dispensing work support system including operations for weighing with a medicine weighing device and packing the weighed powdered medicine with a medicine packing machine.
A further preferred embodiment is a powdered drug dispensing business support system in which the fully automated dispensing operation includes weighing powdered drug to be discharged from the drug container into the dispensing unit.
A further preferred embodiment further has a display device for displaying information about the powdered medicine, and includes a powdered medicine that can be dispensed only by a fully automatic dispensing operation and a powdered medicine that can be dispensed only by a fully automatic dispensing operation in the powdered medicine to be provided to the patient. This is a powdered medicine dispensing work support system in which, when powdered medicines that cannot be dispensed are mixed, a display distinguishing between the two is made on a display device.
In a further preferred embodiment, the drug weighing device has a display device capable of displaying a selection screen for selecting a powdered drug, selects the powdered drug displayed on the selection screen, and weighs the selected powdered drug. As a result of the discrimination operation, the powdered medicine provided by the target prescription includes a mixture of powdered medicine that can be distributed only by the fully automatic packing operation and powdered medicine that cannot be distributed only by the fully automatic packing operation. , is a powdered drug dispensing work support system that transmits data on powdered drugs that cannot be packed only by a fully automatic packing operation to a drug weighing device.
Another aspect of the present invention developed to solve the above problems is a control that controls a plurality of dispensing devices based on prescription data that is data related to prescription and includes information on powdered medicines to be provided to the patient. a device, at least an automatic powdered drug dispensing device included in a plurality of dispensing machines, and a drug container containing a plurality of powdered drugs, wherein the automatic powdered drug packing device distributes the powdered drug discharged from the drug container. A unit and a drug packaging device are provided inside, and the automatic powdered drug packing device is used to discharge powdered drugs from the drug container to the dispensing unit based on prescription data, and to weigh the discharged powdered drugs. a fully automatic packaging operation including an operation of dividing the powdered medicine discharged to the dispensing unit into a predetermined number and a packaging operation of individually packaging the divided powdered medicines by a medicine packaging device; using at least one of the above, based on the prescription data, manually weighed medicine is filled into the medicine container, and the filled medicine container is used to pack the medicine. When at least one of the control device and the automatic powdered medicine dispensing device has a plurality of types of powdered medicines to be provided to the patient, and the plurality of types of powdered medicines are mixed and packaged, The powdered medicine dispensing work support system performs the manual packing operation when it is determined that the number of powdered medicines to be mixed exceeds a predetermined number.
A preferred embodiment is a powder medicine dispensing operation support system in which the dispensing operation of the manual dispensing operation is performed using a medicine packaging device that is at least one of a plurality of dispensing devices, or the automatic powder medicine dispensing device. be.
A further preferred aspect is the powdered drug dispensing business support system, wherein the predetermined number is equal to the total number of container holding stands that hold the drug containers.
Another aspect of the present invention developed to solve the above problems is a control that controls a plurality of dispensing devices based on prescription data that is data related to prescription and includes information on powdered medicines to be provided to the patient. a device, at least an automatic powdered drug dispensing device included in a plurality of dispensing machines, and a drug container containing a plurality of powdered drugs, wherein the automatic powdered drug packing device distributes the powdered drug discharged from the drug container. A unit and a drug packaging device are provided inside, and the automatic powdered drug packing device is used to discharge powdered drugs from the drug container to the dispensing unit based on prescription data, and to weigh the discharged powdered drugs. a fully automatic packaging operation including an operation of dividing the powdered medicine discharged to the dispensing unit into a predetermined number and a packaging operation of individually packaging the divided powdered medicines by a medicine packaging device; using at least one of the above, based on the prescription data, manually weighed medicine is filled into the medicine container, and the filled medicine container is used to pack the medicine. and at least one of the control device and the automatic powdered drug dispensing device determines that the powdered drug to be provided to the patient is one or a plurality of types, and the total amount of each of the one or a plurality of types of powdered drug is The powder medicine dispensing work support system performs the manual packing operation when determining that the amount is less than a predetermined amount.
A preferred embodiment is a powder medicine dispensing operation support system in which the dispensing operation of the manual dispensing operation is performed using a medicine packaging device that is at least one of a plurality of dispensing devices, or the automatic powder medicine dispensing device. be.
A further preferred embodiment is the powdered drug dispensing business support system, wherein at least one of the plurality of dispensing devices in the manual dispensing operation is a drug weighing device.
A more preferred embodiment is a powdered medicine dispensing business support system in which the powdered medicine contains a powdered medicine obtained by grinding solid medicine such as a tablet.
One aspect of the present invention for solving the above-mentioned problems is a dispensing device control device that controls a plurality of dispensing devices based on prescription data that is data related to prescription and includes information on drugs to be provided to patients. and at least an automatic powdered medicine dispensing device, wherein the automatic powdered medicine dispensing device includes a plurality of medicine containers for storing powdered medicines by type, a distribution unit for distributing the powdered medicines discharged from the medicine containers, and a medicine. A packaging device is provided inside, and the automatic powdered medicine packing device discharges the powdered medicine from the moved medicine container to the distribution unit and weighs the discharged powdered medicine based on the prescription data. and dividing the powdered medicine discharged to the dispensing unit into a predetermined number, and individually packaging the divided powdered medicines by the medicine packaging device, wherein At least one of the control device and the automatic powdered medicine dispensing device can perform a determination operation of determining whether or not all of the medicines to be provided to the patient can be packaged by the dispensing operation based on the prescription data. This is a powder medicine dispensing business support system characterized by:

Further, one aspect of the present invention provides a dispensing device control device for controlling a plurality of dispensing devices based on prescription data including information on drugs to be provided to patients, and at least an automatic powdered drug. A dispensing device is provided, and the automatic powdered medicine dispensing device is provided with at least a medicine container for containing the powdered medicine and a medicine packaging device for packaging the powdered medicine discharged from the medicine container, and Based on the prescription data, the automatic powdered medicine dispensing device can perform an operation of weighing the powdered medicine discharged from the medicine container containing the prescribed powdered medicine, and can execute a packing operation of individually dispensing the weighed powdered medicine. and whether or not at least one of the dispensing device control device and the automatic powder medicine packing device can pack all the medicines to be provided to the patient by the packing operation based on the prescription data. It is a powder medicine dispensing work support system characterized in that it is possible to perform a discrimination operation for discriminating.

The powdered medicine dispensing business support system of the present invention performs an operation of discharging a powdered medicine from a medicine container containing a predetermined powdered medicine, an operation of weighing the discharged powdered medicine, and divides the discharged powdered medicine into a predetermined number. , an automatic powder medicine packaging device capable of performing a packaging operation for individually packaging divided powder medicines. Then, based on the prescription data, a determination operation is performed to determine whether or not all of the medicines to be provided to the patient can be packaged by the packaging operation. As a result, it is possible to classify prescriptions that can be carried out completely automatically (or prescriptions that can be carried out almost automatically) and prescriptions that require manual work, so that dispensing work can be performed efficiently according to each prescription. becomes feasible.

In one aspect of the present invention, the dispensing device control device is capable of transmitting data to the automatic powdered medicine packaging device, and performing the determination operation by the automatic powdered medicine packaging device, and As a result, when all the medicines to be provided to the patient cannot be packaged by the dispensing operation, the automatic powdered medicine dispensing device performs a data return operation for transmitting data regarding this prescription to the dispensing device control device. It is a powder medicine dispensing work support system characterized by implementing.

According to such a configuration, when a drug provided by a target prescription includes a drug that cannot be packaged by the automatic powdered drug packing device, the data return operation of transmitting data related to this prescription to the dispensing device control device is performed. are being implemented. As a result, not only the automatic powder medicine packaging device but also the dispensing machine control device can identify prescriptions that cannot be dealt with by the automatic powder medicine packaging device alone. In other words, a plurality of devices can share information related to determination results.
Therefore, for example, it is possible to set a prescription that requires manual work to be preferentially processed by a normal packaging device that is different from an automatic powder medicine packaging device, and the entire dispensing machine can be efficiently operated. It is possible to operate.

The automatic powdered medicine dispensing and packaging device is provided with a container storage section for storing some of the drug containers, and based on the prescription data, the drug containers containing predetermined powdered drugs are delivered from the container storage section. A fully automatic packing operation in which the powdered medicine discharged from the medicine container is weighed, and the discharged powdered medicine is individually packed by the medicine packaging device for each dosing period. can be executed, and based on the prescription data, it is possible to perform a determination operation for determining whether or not all of the medicines to be provided to the patient can be packaged by a fully automatic packaging operation, and the determination operation As a result, when it is not possible to dispense all the medicines to be provided to the patient by the fully automatic dispense operation, it is desirable to perform a data return operation for transmitting data regarding this prescription to the dispensing device controller. .

In the powdered medicine dispensing business support system of the present invention, the automatic powdered medicine packaging device is capable of fully automatic packaging operation in which a series of processes of measuring (weighing) the powdered medicine, dividing, and individually packaging are automatically performed.
Then, when the prescription data is input to the control device for dispensing equipment, the prescription data is transmitted to the automatic powdered medicine packing device, and whether or not all the medicines provided by the prescription can be fully automatically packed for each prescription is determined. can be determined.
In other words, prescriptions that can be performed automatically in separate packaging and prescriptions that require manual work are sorted out. can reduce the amount of work in In addition, prescriptions that involve manual operations can be set to be preferentially processed by ordinary packaging devices that cannot perform fully automatic packaging operations, and the entire dispensing machine can be operated efficiently. becomes possible.
In one aspect of the present invention, the automatic powdered medicine packaging device is provided with a container storage unit for storing some of the medicine containers and a medicine packaging device inside, and based on the prescription data, a predetermined powdered medicine is moved from the container storage unit to the container placement unit, the powdered medicine discharged from the moved medicine container is weighed, and the discharged powdered medicine is taken by the medicine packaging device Whether or not it is possible to execute a fully automatic packing operation to pack individually for each period, and to pack all the powdered drugs to be provided to the patient by the automatic powdered drug packing device based on the prescription data. and a determination operation for determining whether or not all of the powdered medicines to be provided to the patient can be packaged by a fully automatic dispensing operation based on the prescription data. This is a powder medicine dispensing business support system.
One aspect of the present invention is that, as a result of the determination operation, when all of the powdered medicine to be provided to the patient cannot be packaged by the fully automatic dispensing operation, data regarding this prescription is transmitted to the dispensing device controller. This is a powdered medicine dispensing work support system characterized by executing a data reply operation to be performed.

The drug container includes an automatic drug container and a manual drug container, and the automatic powdered drug dispensing device includes the dispensing operation using the automatic drug container and the dispensing operation using the automatic drug container and the pre-weighed powdered drug introduction. A manual dispensing operation using a manual drug container is possible, and the determination operation is performed based on the following criteria (1) to (3). It is preferable that the above-mentioned powdered medicine dispensing work support system applies when all of the medicines to be provided to the individual cannot be packaged by the above-mentioned dispensing operation.
(1) All drugs to be provided to the patient specified based on the prescription data are contained in the automatic drug container.
(2) The number of medicines to be provided to the patient specified based on the prescription data is one or more, and the total amount of each medicine is equal to or greater than a predetermined amount.
(3) If there are multiple types of drugs to be provided to the patient specified based on the prescription data, and the multiple drugs need to be mixed and packaged, the number of drugs to be mixed is less than or equal to a predetermined number. .

With such a configuration, it is possible to perform a highly accurate determination operation, and to reliably select prescriptions for which the dispensing and packaging operation can be performed only by the automatic powder medicine dispensing and packaging device, thereby supporting more efficient operations. can be done.
In one aspect of the present invention, the drug container includes an automatic drug container and a manual drug container, and the automatic powder drug dispensing device comprises: the dispensing operation using the automatic drug container; A manual dispensing operation using the manual drug container into which pre-weighed powdered medicine is introduced is possible, and the determination operation is performed based on the following criteria (1) to (3), and any of the following: A powdered medicine dispensary business support system characterized in that it is determined that all of the powdered medicines to be provided to the patient cannot be packaged by the above-mentioned dispensing operation.
(1) All of the powdered medicine to be provided to the patient specified based on the prescription data is contained in the automatic medicine container.
(2) There are one type or a plurality of types of powdered medicine to be provided to the patient specified based on the prescription data, and the total amount of each individual medicine is equal to or greater than a predetermined amount.
(3) When there are multiple types of powdered medicines to be provided to the patient specified based on the prescription data, and the multiple powdered medicines need to be mixed and distributed, the number of powdered medicines to be mixed is less than or equal to a predetermined number. .

By the way, if there are drugs provided in the prescription that cannot be packed by the automatic powdered drug packing operation, there are cases where all the drugs cannot be packed by the automatic powdered drug packing machine, and some drugs cannot be packed by the automatic powdered drug packing machine. It is conceivable that the package cannot be divided and packaged by the packaging device. In the latter case, for some medicines, if operations such as measuring (weighing) the powdered medicine and transporting the medicine container can be automatically performed in the same manner as the automatic powdered medicine packing machine, manual work can be replaced. There is an advantage that it can be reduced.

Therefore, in one aspect of the present invention, there is a display device for displaying information about medicines, and medicines to be provided to a patient include medicines that can be packaged by the packaging operation and medicines that can be packaged by the packaging operation. In the powdered drug dispensing work support system, when a drug that cannot be packaged is mixed, a display distinguishing between the two is displayed on the display device.

According to such a configuration, the user can easily distinguish between medicines that can be packed using the automatic powdered medicine packing machine and medicines that cannot be packed by the automatic powdered medicine packing machine. As a result, for example, for a drug that can be packed using an automatic powdered medicine packing machine, it is possible to prompt the user to use the automatic powdered medicine packing machine. becomes possible.

The dispensing equipment includes a drug weighing device for weighing a target drug, the drug weighing device has a display device capable of displaying a selection screen for selecting a drug, and a display device is displayed on the selection screen. and weighing of the selected medicine can be performed, and as a result of the determination operation, the medicine that can be packaged by the packaging operation and the medicine that is provided in the target prescription When medicines that cannot be packaged by the packaging operation are mixed, information indicating medicines that can be packaged by the packaging operation is displayed in a non-selectable state on the selection screen, and the medicines are packaged by the packaging operation. It is desirable to display information indicating drugs that cannot be used in a selectable state.

The present invention comprises a drug weighing device for selecting drugs displayed on the selection screen and weighing the selected drug. Then, in this drug weighing device, information indicating drugs that can be packaged by the automatic powdered drug packing device is displayed in a non-selectable state.
Therefore, it is possible to automatically perform actions such as measuring (weighing) the powdered medicine and transporting the drug container. The work can be reliably performed automatically. Therefore, even if a prescribed prescription contains a medicine that cannot be packaged by a fully automatic packaging operation, manual operations can be reduced as much as possible.

The dispensing device includes a drug weighing device for weighing a target drug, is capable of performing the determination operation by the control device for the dispensing device, and as a result of the determination operation, the drug to be provided to the patient is determined. If some of the medicines cannot be packaged by the packaging operation, data about the medicine that can be packaged by the packaging operation is sent to the automatic powdered medicine packaging device, and the packaging operation is not possible. It is desirable to perform a prescription data division transmission operation for transmitting data related to various drugs to the drug weighing device.

According to this configuration, since the prescription data division transmission operation is performed to divide and transmit the data related to the prescription, the amount of data transmitted to one device can be reduced, and the data transmission speed can be improved. can be done.

After the prescription data division transmission operation is performed, the drug weighing device transmits data on the weighing result to the dispensing device control device, and the automatic powdered drug packing device sends data on the drug to be used in the dispensing to the dispensing device. A data integration operation is performed to integrate data on drugs that can be packaged by the packaging operation and data on drugs that cannot be packaged by the packaging operation on the condition that the data has been sent to the device control device. preferably

According to this configuration, the prescription data division transmission operation is performed to divide and transmit the data on the medicine that can be packed by the automatic powdered medicine packing device and the data on the medicine that cannot be packed, and the prescribed data is sent to each dispensing device. After the processing of , a data integration operation is performed to integrate these data again. As a result, it becomes possible to centrally manage information on one prescription after processing is performed in each dispensing device. In other words, after each dispensing device performs a process, it is possible to preferably share information on one prescription among the dispensing devices.

According to the present invention, it is possible to improve the efficiency of dispensing work.

1 is a block diagram showing a powdered medicine dispensing business support system according to an embodiment of the present invention; FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing the configuration of a control device in FIG. 1; FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing the configuration of the drug weighing device of FIG. 1; FIG. FIG. 2 is a perspective view showing an apparatus main body of the drug weighing apparatus of FIG. 1; FIG. 2 is a perspective view showing the fully automatic powder medicine packaging machine of FIG. 1; 6 is a transparent perspective view of the housing of FIG. 5; FIG. FIG. 7 is a perspective view showing an enlarged medicine dividing region of FIG. 6; FIG. 7 is a perspective view showing the automatic drug container of FIG. 6, showing how it is placed on a container holding base; Figure 6 is a perspective view of the manually operated drug container of Figure 5; FIG. 2 is a flow chart showing a procedure of a powdered medicine dispensing operation that can be performed by the powdered medicine dispensing work support system of FIG. 1. FIG.

Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the attached drawings. The following embodiments are specific examples of the present invention, and the present invention is not limited to these examples. In the following description, the term “powder medicine” includes powdered medicines obtained by grinding solid medicines such as tablets.

As shown in FIG. 1, the powder medicine dispensing business support system 1 of the present embodiment includes a control device 2 (control device for dispensing equipment), a medicine weighing device 3, a medicine packing machine 4, and a fully automatic powder medicine packing machine 5. (automatic powdered drug packing machine), and the controller 2 and other dispensing devices (drug weighing device 3, drug packing machine 4, fully automatic powdered drug packing machine 5) communicate with each other via a local area network (LAN) or the like. They are connected to each other via a network so as to be able to transmit and receive data (signals).
The control device 2 is also connected to an external PC 6 used by a doctor so that data can be exchanged with each other. Then, by the doctor inputting the information regarding the prescription to the external PC 6, the prescription data to be used in each device constituting the powdered medicine dispensing work support system 1 is created.

As shown in FIG. 2, the control device 2 includes a device body 8 having a CPU, a ROM, a RAM (EEPROM), a HDD (Hard Disk Drive), and a communication unit, a display device 9, and an input device 10. ing.

A CPU is a processor that executes various kinds of arithmetic processing. The ROM is a non-volatile memory in which programs such as BIOS are stored in advance, and the RAM is a volatile or non-volatile memory used for developing various programs and temporarily storing data.

The HDD is a storage device that functions as a data storage unit that stores various programs and data, and stores data regarding settings of each dispensing device, data regarding registered drugs, data regarding errors in each dispensing device, and the like.

The communication section is a well-known I/O port, and is a section capable of transmitting and receiving input/output signals to and from each external dispensing device.

The display device 9 is a device for displaying the contents input by the user and the usage status of each dispensing device, and a known display device such as a CRT, liquid crystal, plasma, or organic EL can be suitably employed.
The input device 10 is a device used when a user inputs data to the control device 2, and a known mouse, keyboard, or the like can be suitably adopted.

As shown in FIG. 3, the drug weighing device 3 includes a device body 25 having a control unit 15, a weighing unit 16, an operation display unit 17 (display device), a storage unit 18, an audio output unit 19, and a USB port 20. , a printing device 26 and an information reading device 27 connected to the main body 25 of the device.

The control unit 15 includes a CPU, memory (ROM, RAM), and a communication unit. The communication section is a well-known I/O port, and is a section capable of transmitting/receiving input/output signals to/from the control device 2 .

The weighing unit 16 has a balance unit including a balance table 30 , a balance circuit 31 , a fall coil 32 , a current/voltage conversion circuit 33 and an A/D conversion circuit 34 . The weighing unit 16 can convert the weight of the drug placed on the balance table 30 into a digital signal and transmit the digital signal to the control unit 15 .

The balance table 30 is arranged at a position surrounded on three sides by a windshield case 38, as shown in FIG. As a result, the medicine placed on the balance table 30 is not affected by the air flow when the weighing operation is performed.

The operation display unit 17 is a known touch panel and is provided in front of the balance table 30 . That is, the operation display unit 17 functions as both a display device and an input device, and is a part used for various input operations such as input operation of weighing conditions by the user.

The storage unit 18 is a portion that stores unchanged weighing-related data and a program for operating the drug weighing device 3 (not shown in FIG. 4, see FIG. 3). In this embodiment, a CF (Compact Flash) card is used as the storage unit 18 .

The audio output unit 19 is a known speaker and is attached to the front side of the device body 25 (not shown in FIG. 4). This voice output section 19 is a section for emitting an alarm sound or the like as necessary.

The USB port 20 is attached to the rear side of the device body 25 (not shown in FIG. 4). More specifically, a detachable cover 39 (see FIG. 4) is attached to the rear side of the device main body 25, and the USB port 20 is provided in the portion covered by this cover 39. As shown in FIG.
This USB port 20 has a structure in which a USB memory functioning as a storage medium can be attached and detached. By attaching a USB memory to the USB port 20, it becomes possible to take in information stored in the USB memory.

In other words, the medicine weighing device 3 can read the data about the medicine handled in the dispensing business from the USB memory.
More specifically, the drug weighing device 3 of the present embodiment can receive data transmitted from the control device 2 to automatically take in drug-related data including prescription data. However, there are cases where it is desired to manually import data, such as when some kind of abnormality occurs in the communication network. For this reason, the medicine weighing device 3 of the present embodiment is configured so that the operation display unit 17 can be operated to input data about the medicine, and the data can be read from the USB memory. This makes it possible to execute the data read operation according to the situation.

The printing device 26 is similar to a known printer, and is capable of printing inspection results and the like.

The information reading device 27 is an RFID reader/writer or a bar code reader, both of which are capable of converting read information into signals and transmitting them to the device body 25 . In this embodiment, both an RFID reader/writer and a bar code reader are provided.

An RFID reader/writer is a device capable of reading information from an RFID tag or RFID label and writing information to the RFID tag or RFID label using RFID wireless communication technology. That is, the RFID reader/writer is a device that also functions as an information writing device. As a result, information can be read from and written to an RFID tag or the like provided on a medicine container, a medicine bottle, a prescription, or the like.
A barcode reader is a device capable of reading information from barcodes attached to labels such as drug containers, medicine bottles, and prescriptions.

The medicine packaging machine 4 is similar to a known one, and is a device capable of packaging medicines one dose at a time.
More specifically, a predetermined amount of medicine weighed by a pharmacist is introduced into a dedicated container, the container is fixed at a predetermined position of the medicine packing machine 4, and a predetermined operation is performed to obtain a single dose of the medicine. It is possible to implement a manual packing operation that outputs in a state of being packed one by one.

In addition to the manual packaging operation described above, the fully automatic powdered medicine packaging machine 5 performs a fully automatic packaging operation of weighing and packaging the powdered medicine using the built-in container, and a fully automatic packaging operation of weighing and packaging the powdered medicine using a built-in container. It is configured to allow operations such as a semi-automatic dispensing operation for weighing and dispensing powdered medicine using a container (operations that can be performed by the fully automatic powdered medicine dispensing machine 5 will be described in detail later). .

As shown in FIG. 5, the fully automatic powder medicine packaging machine 5 has a structure comprising a device main body 45 containing an automatic medicine container 46 (not shown in FIG. 5, see FIG. 6, etc.) and a manual medicine container 47. It's becoming
Upon receiving a signal from the control device 2, the fully automatic powder medicine packaging machine 5 automatically takes out the powder medicine contained in the automatic medicine container 46 (details will be described later), weighs it, and divides it into a predetermined number. It is possible to perform the operation of dividing and packaging. The user can also automatically take out the powdered medicine stored in the drug container (automatic drug container 46 or manual drug container 47) by operating the operation display unit 48 integrally attached to the apparatus main body 45. It can be weighed, divided into a predetermined number, and packaged.

The apparatus main body 45 is formed by incorporating various devices in a housing 50. Specifically, as shown in FIG. A drug packaging area 54 is provided respectively. A dehumidifier (not shown) and a temperature controller (not shown) are provided inside the housing 50 so that the internal temperature and humidity can be maintained within a certain range.

As shown in FIG. 5, a door portion 56 is provided in a portion of the housing 50 that forms the outer wall surface of the medicine container placement area 52 .
The door portion 56 is a portion for taking the automatic drug container 46 into and out of the housing 50, and is provided with a container temporary placement portion (not shown) for temporarily placing the automatic drug container 46 inside. . The door portion 56 and the container temporary placement portion function as an introduction portion when introducing the drug container into the housing 50 and also function as a take-out portion when removing the drug container from the inside of the housing 50 .

The container temporary placement portion (not shown) is a portion that can hold the automatic drug container 46 by mechanical engagement. The container temporary placement portion is in the engaged state. Conversely, when the automatic drug container 46 and the container temporary placement portion are in the engaged state, they are disengaged by lifting the automatic drug container 46 . That is, it is possible to remove the automatic drug container 46 from the container temporary placement section.
Further, the container temporary placement section is provided with information reading means for reading information from the automatic medicine container 46 and weight measuring means for measuring the weight of the automatic medicine container 46 .

As shown in FIG. 6, the drug container placement area 52 is provided with a container storage section 57 that holds the automatic drug container 46 . In FIG. 6, only some of the automatic drug containers 46 are given reference numerals, and the reference numerals for the other automatic drug containers 46 are omitted.
The container storage section 57 has a drum member 58 installed in an upright position, and the drum member 58 is rotatable around a longitudinally extending rotation axis. That is, the vertical drum member 58 is horizontally rotatable using a motor or the like as a power source.

A plurality of container mounting portions are provided on the outer peripheral surface of the drum member 58, and the automatic drug container 46 is held by the container mounting portions.
Each container mounting portion holds the automatic drug container 46 by mechanical engagement, and by pushing the automatic drug container 46, the automatic drug container 46 and the container mounting portion are engaged. . Conversely, when the automatic drug container 46 and container mount are engaged, pulling the automatic drug container 46 outward disengages them.

In this embodiment, as shown in FIG. 6, the drum member 58 is vertically divided into three regions, and a plurality of container installation portions are formed in each of the divided regions. In other words, a group of 11 container installation portions is provided over three stages. That is, the container storage unit 57 can hold 33 automatic drug containers 46 in total.

In more detail, the fully automatic powder medicine packaging machine 5 can use the automatic drug containers 46 held in the container storage unit 57 and the automatic drug containers 46 housed in the external management shelf. . The container storage unit 57 can hold 33 automatic drug containers 46 at maximum. An external automatic drug container 46 can additionally be retained. It is also possible to replace the automatic drug container 46 held in the container storage unit 57 with the external automatic drug container 46 stored in the management shelf.

The container mounting portion of the drum member 58 has a structure with a protruding member that protrudes outward. there is

Further, optical sensors are provided inside and outside the drum member 58, respectively, so that it is possible to detect whether or not the projecting member of the container installation portion projects.

Information reading means (not shown) is provided in the vicinity of the drum member 58 in the drug container placement area 52 . Therefore, it is possible to acquire information from each automatic drug container 46 held by the drum member 58 . More specifically, information can be obtained from container-side information storage means (details will be described later) attached to each automatic drug container 46 .

A container moving unit 60 is provided in an area from the medicine container placement area 52 to the medicine dividing area 53 . The container moving unit 60 has a structure including an arm portion 61 and an elevating mechanism 62. The elevating mechanism 62 allows the arm portion 61 to move in the vertical direction.
A magnet is provided at the tip of the arm portion 61, and by attracting an iron plate integrally attached to the automatic drug container 46, the automatic drug container 46 can be held.

In the drug division area 53, a distribution unit 68, a container holding table 69 (container placing portion), and a scraper are placed in a space behind the front door 65 (see FIG. 5), as shown in FIG. A dispensing device 70, a cleaning device 71, a drug introduction port 72, and a camera member 73 are provided.
More specifically, in the drug division area 53, two parallel distribution units 68 are installed in a buried state.

A container holding table 69 , a scraping device 70 and a cleaning device 71 are provided around each distribution unit 68 . One distribution unit 68 is associated with three container holders 69 , one scraping device 70 and one cleaning device 71 .

In addition, a drug introduction port 72 is provided around the distribution unit 68 and between the two distribution units 68 to supply powdered drugs to the drug packaging area 54 one packet at a time.

The distribution unit 68 is provided with an annularly continuous drug-inserting groove, and is rotatable by a rotation mechanism (not shown).

The container holding table 69 has a structure including a vibrating table portion and weight measuring means.

The vibrating table is provided with container holding means for holding a drug container (automatic drug container 46 or manual drug container 47). In this embodiment, magnets (electromagnets) are used as container holding means.

The gravity measuring means directly or indirectly measures the weight of the drug container.

Therefore, by placing the drug container on the container holding base 69 , it is possible to vibrate the drug container and discharge the powdered drug contained in the drug container to the distribution unit 68 . A change in the weight of the drug container accompanying the ejection of the powdered drug can be detected by the gravity measuring means.

The camera member 73 is installed at a position capable of photographing the surroundings of the container holding base 69, and captures the surroundings of the drug discharge portion (discharge port, which will be described later in detail) of the drug container placed on the container holding base 69. It functions as an imaging device for taking pictures. For this camera member 73, for example, a digital image pickup device such as a CCD camera can be suitably adopted.
In this embodiment, a camera member 73 for capturing an image around the container holding table 69 adjacent to the distribution unit 68 on one side and a camera member 73 for capturing an image around the container holding table 69 adjacent to the distribution unit 68 on the other side are provided separately. are provided, and each imaging operation can be executed separately.

The drug packaging area 54 is provided with a known drug packaging device and printing means.
A medicine packaging device is a machine for packaging medicines one by one, and is formed by a sheet feeding device and a sealing device. That is, the sheet supplied from the sheet supply device is formed into a bag shape to prepare a sachet, and the powdered medicine supplied from the medicine dividing area 53 is introduced into the prepared sachet bag, and furthermore, the sealing device is used to seal one dose. It is possible to seal and package each minute.
The printing means is a machine for printing predetermined information on the packaging bag.

As shown in FIG. 8, the automatic medicine container 46 is a container having a substantially rectangular parallelepiped outer shape, and is provided with a medicine discharge part 46a for discharging powdered medicine or powdered medicine contained therein to the outside. there is The medicine discharge part 46a is an opening-shaped part that opens downward, and communicates the inside and the outside. The medicine discharge part 46a is also a part that functions as a medicine introduction part for introducing a medicine by removing the surrounding members to make a larger opening.
Further, the automatic medicine container 46 is provided with iron plates 46b (one surface is not shown) on two different surfaces. The iron plate 46b provided on one surface is a portion for attracting the magnet of the arm portion 61 when the automatic drug container 46 is held by the arm portion 61. As shown in FIG. An iron plate 46b (not shown) provided on the other surface is a portion to be attracted to a magnet of the container holding table 69 (described in detail later) when installed on the container holding table 69. FIG.
In addition, the automatic drug container 46 is provided with an RFID tag so that information regarding the stored drug can be stored. That is, this RFID tag functions as a container-side information storage means.

The operation display unit 48 is a so-called touch panel, and is formed by combining a display device such as a liquid crystal panel and a position input device such as a touch pad.
The fully automatic powder medicine packaging machine 5 of the present embodiment can also perform various operations described later by operating the operation display section 48 .

In addition, the fully automatic powder medicine packaging machine 5 of this embodiment is configured to include a control section (not shown).

The control unit includes a CPU, ROM, RAM (EEPROM), and data storage unit.
A CPU is a processor that executes various kinds of arithmetic processing. The ROM is a non-volatile memory in which programs such as BIOS are stored in advance, and the RAM is a volatile or non-volatile memory used for developing various programs and temporarily storing data.
The data storage unit is an HDD (Hard Disk) in which various programs and data are stored.
Drive) or the like.

As shown in FIG. 9 , the manual medicine container 47 is a substantially rectangular parallelepiped container and has substantially the same structure as the automatic medicine container 46 . This manual drug container 47 is different from the automatic drug container 46 in that a drug input portion 47b is provided at a position separate from the drug discharge portion 47a.
That is, in the manual drug container 47, a drug input portion 47b is provided at the upper portion of the manual drug container 47. As shown in FIG. The drug input portion 47b is a through-hole-shaped portion that communicates between the inside and the outside, and is formed so that the outer portion has a larger cross-sectional area than the inner portion.

Next, a packaging operation that can be performed by the fully automatic powder medicine packaging machine 5 will be described.

As described above, the fully automatic powder medicine packaging machine 5 of this embodiment uses the fully automatic dispensing operation using the built-in automatic medicine container 46 and the automatic medicine container 46 housed in the external management shelf. and a manual dispensing operation using a manual medicine container 47 into which powdered medicine weighed in advance by a pharmacist is introduced.
Furthermore, only when a plurality of drugs are mixed and packaged, at least one drug is supplied to the distribution unit 68 in a procedure similar to the fully automatic packing operation or the semi-automatic packing operation, and at least one other drug is supplied. is supplied to the distribution unit 68 in the same procedure as the manual packaging operation, and a semi-automatic packing operation can be performed.
Each of these operations is described in detail below.
[Completely automatic packaging operation]

When it is confirmed that all powdered medicines to be distributed are stored in the automatic drug container 46 currently held in the container storage unit 57, the selected automatic drug container 46 is taken out from the container storage unit 57. A cassette ejection operation is performed.

That is, the fully automatic powdered medicine dispensing machine 5 rotates the drum member 58 to bring the automatic medicine container 46 to be taken out close to the container moving unit 60 . Then, the arm portion 61 which is a part of the container moving unit 60 is caused to hold the automatic drug container 46 . In other words, the iron plate integrally attached to the automatic drug container 46 is attracted by the magnet provided on the tip side of the arm portion 61 .
Then, the arm section 61 takes out the automatic drug container 46 from the container storage section 57 , moves the automatic drug container 46 to the container holding base 69 , and places the automatic drug container 46 on the container holding base 69 .

In this embodiment, information reading means is provided in the vicinity of the container holding table 69, and an information reading operation for reading stored information from the RFID tag of the automatic drug container 46 placed on the container holding table 69 is performed. It is possible.
By this information reading operation, the type of drug (powdered drug) contained in the automatic drug container 46 is confirmed. That is, a confirmation operation is performed to confirm whether the automatic medicine container 46 containing the medicine to be used has been correctly selected and transported.

As a result of the confirmation operation, when it is confirmed that the automatic medicine container 46 containing the medicine to be used is placed on the container holding table 69, the vibrating table portion of the container holding table 69 starts vibrating. The automatic drug container 46 vibrates and the powdered drug contained in the automatic drug container 46 slowly falls into the dispensing unit 68 . That is, the powder medicine is supplied (discharged) from the inside of the automatic medicine container 46 to the dispensing unit 68 .

In addition, along with the supply operation (discharge operation) of the powder medicine from the automatic drug container 46 to the distribution unit 68, the feeder rotation operation for rotating the distribution unit 68 is performed.

Here, before and during the vibrating operation by the vibrating table section, weight measurement for measuring the weight of the placed automatic drug container 46 based on the value detected by the weight measuring means of the container holding table 69. Action is being performed.
That is, while the powdered medicine is being supplied (discharged) from the automatic medicine container 46 to the distribution unit 68, the weight of the automatic medicine container 46 is constantly detected, and the supply amount (discharge amount) of the powder medicine and the distribution unit 68 The vibration operation of the vibration table is stopped on the condition that the amount of falling on the top of the vibration table reaches a predetermined amount.
The weight of the automatic drug container 46 acquired before the start of the vibrating operation is stored as the original weight, and the current weight acquired during the vibrating operation is stored as the current weight.

The weight of the automatic drug container 46 is constantly sensed during the vibrating motion to ensure that the powdered drug is being supplied to the dispensing unit 68 without delay. In other words, it is possible to check whether or not the powdered medicine is correctly supplied without clogging the outlet of the automatic medicine container 46 .
That is, the fully automatic powder medicine packaging machine 5 of the present embodiment continuously acquires the current weight of the automatic drug container 46 during the vibrating operation, and compares the acquired current weight with the original weight acquired before starting. , the supply amount of powder medicine (the value obtained by subtracting the current weight from the original weight) is constantly calculated.
Then, the vibrating operation is stopped on condition that the supply amount of the powdered medicine reaches the specified amount. In other words, the vibrating action is stopped on condition that the current weight of the automatic medicine container 46 is less than the original weight obtained before the vibrating action is started by a specified amount.

When a plurality of powdered medicines are to be mixed and packaged, the operation of placing the automatic drug container 46 on the container holding base 69 is repeated, and the plurality of automatic drug containers 46 are placed on different container holding bases 69 respectively. place A plurality of types of powdered medicines are supplied to the dispensing unit 68 by vibrating the respective container holding bases 69 .
In this case, a plurality of types of powdered medicines are mixed as the feeder rotates.

Then, when a prescribed amount of powdered medicine is supplied to the distribution unit 68 and the vibrating motion is stopped, the automatic medicine container 46 is returned to the container storage part 57 by the arm part 61 . At this time, an information writing operation is performed to measure the weight of the automatic drug container 46 when the supply of the drug to the distribution unit 68 is completed by the weight measuring means of the container holding base 69, and to store the measured weight in the RFID. , and then the automatic drug container 46 is returned to the container storage section 57 .
That is, the arm portion 61 moves the automatic drug container 46 from the container holding base 69 to the container storage portion 57 .

On the other hand, in the distribution unit 68, the rotation of the distribution unit 68 is stopped after the vibrating motion is stopped. Then, a medicine dividing operation is performed in which the powdered medicine supplied to the distribution unit 68 is put into the medicine introduction port 72 one dose at a time.
In the drug splitting operation, the distal portion of the raking device 70 is lowered into proximity with the dispensing unit 68 . Then, the dispensing unit 68 is rotated by an angle corresponding to the number of divisions so that a single dose of the powdered medicine is drawn around the distal end portion of the scraping device 70 . In this state, the scraping device 70 is operated to scoop up the powdered medicine that has been brought to the periphery of the scraping device 70 and put it into the medicine introduction port 72 .
By repeating such an operation, a medicine dividing operation is performed in which the medicine supplied to the distribution unit 68 is injected into the medicine introduction port 72 one dose at a time.

A single dose of medicine introduced into the medicine introduction port 72 reaches the medicine packaging area 54 and is supplied to the medicine packaging device. Then, each drug is packaged by the drug packaging device.
When this series of operations is completed, all the medicines supplied to the distribution unit 68 are supplied to the medicine packaging device, and the packaging is completed, the fully automatic packaging operation is completed.
[Semi-automatic packaging operation]

In the semi-automatic dispensing operation, the medicine is supplied to the dispensing unit 68 from the automatic medicine container 46 stored in the external management shelf, not from the automatic medicine container 46 held in the container storage section 57. It is different from the fully automatic packaging operation. A detailed description of the same operations as the fully automatic packaging operations described above will be omitted.

First, the door portion 56 is opened, and the automatic drug container 46 manually taken out from the external management shelf is placed on a container temporary placement portion (not shown) located on the back side of the door portion 56 .
At this time, an information reading operation is performed to read the information stored in the RFID tag of the automatic drug container 46, and the user determines whether or not the automatic drug container 46 placed on the container temporary placement unit is correct. A confirmation operation is performed to confirm. That is, the type of drug provided in the prescription included in the prescription data (the type of drug to be packaged) and the type of drug stored in the automatic drug container 46 placed on the container temporary placement unit are different. A match is determined.
Further, a weight measurement operation is performed to measure the weight of the automatic drug container 46 placed on the container temporary placement section, and an information write operation is performed to store the measured weight in the RFID tag.

Then, when the door portion 56 is closed, the arm portion 61 moves the automatic drug container 46 from the container temporary placement portion to the container holding table 69 , and the automatic drug container 46 is placed on the container holding table 69 . .

From this state, the drug is supplied to the distribution unit 68 and supplied to the drug packaging apparatus one dose at a time, in the same manner as in the fully automatic packaging operation described above. In addition, the medicine packaging device packs the supplied powdered medicine one dose at a time. As a result, the medicine supplied to the distribution unit 68 is divided into a predetermined number.
Then, when the operation of supplying the medicine to the distribution unit 68 is completed, the arm part 61 performs the operation of returning the automatic medicine container 46 to the container temporary placement part, moves the door part 56 to the open state, and moves the automatic medicine container 46 to the open state. The drug container 46 is manually removed. This completes the semi-automatic packaging operation.
[Manual packaging operation]

In the manual packaging operation, first, by performing a predetermined operation on the operation display unit 48, the front door 65 is slid upward to open the medicine division area 53 in front.
When the front door 65 is lifted, the operator manually installs the manual drug container 47 filled with the drug in advance on the container holding table 69 .

At this time, an information reading operation is performed to read the information stored in the RFID tag of the manual drug container 47, and confirmation is made to confirm whether the manual drug container 47 to be used is correctly placed on the container holding base 69. Actions are performed.
In this checking operation, when it is confirmed that the manual drug container 47 is properly placed on the container holding base 69, the front door 65 is ready to rotate. Move to closed state.

Then, the vibrating table portion of the container holding table 69 starts to vibrate, and the medicine is supplied from the manual medicine container 47 to the dispensing unit 68 . At this time, as in the fully automatic packaging operation and semi-automatic packaging operation described above, the feeder rotation operation for rotating the distribution unit 68, the medicine dividing operation for dividing the medicine into one dose, and the like are executed, and the medicine is divided into one dose. It will be supplied to the medicine packaging device in minutes.

When the manual packaging operation is completed, the operation display unit 48 displays a message "Please take out the manual distribution cassette". In this state, a predetermined operation is performed to raise the front door 65 again. After taking out the manual drug container 47, the user operates the operation display unit 48 to lower the front door 65 and close the front door 65. As shown in FIG.

By the way, in this manual sachet-and-package operation, unlike the above-described fully automatic sachet-and-package operation, all the medicaments contained in the manual medicament container 47 are supplied to the distribution unit 68 without performing the operation of measuring the supply amount of the medicament. do. That is, it is necessary for the user to manually weigh in advance and fill the manual drug container 47 with a specified amount (the final amount to be supplied) of the drug.
[Semi-automatic packaging operation]

In the semi-automatic packaging operation, as in the manual packaging operation described above, a predetermined operation is performed on the operation display unit 48, the front door 65 is rotated upward, and the front side of the medicine division area 53 is opened. and Then, the operator manually installs a predetermined number of manual drug containers 47 filled with drugs in advance on the container holding base 69 .

On the other hand, the automatic drug containers 46 currently held in the container storage section 57 or the automatic drug containers stored in the external management shelf are stored in other container holding bases 69 on which the manual drug containers 47 are not placed. A formula drug container 46 is placed.

That is, when the automatic drug container 46 currently held in the container storage unit 57 is to be placed on the container holding table 69, the arm unit 61 moves from the container storage unit 57 to the container storage unit 57 in the same manner as in the fully automatic packaging operation described above. The automatic drug container 46 is moved to the container holding table 69 and placed on the container holding table 69 .
When the automatic drug container 46 stored in the external management shelf is to be placed on the container holding base 69, the user can position the drug container 46 behind the door 56 in the same manner as in the semi-automatic packaging operation described above. The automatic drug container 46 is placed on a container temporary placement unit (not shown). Then, by closing the door portion 56, the arm portion 61 moves the automatic drug container 46 from the container temporary placement portion to the container holding base 69 so that the automatic drug container 46 is placed on the container holding base 69. .

Therefore, when the semi-automatic packaging operation is performed, the manually operated drug container 47 is placed on at least one container holding base 69, and the other container holding bases 69 are transported from the container storage section 57 or the temporary container placement section. A state in which the discovered automatic drug container 46 is placed is reached.

Here, in the semi-automatic packing operation of this embodiment, even if both the automatic drug container 46 carried from the container storage unit 57 and the automatic drug container 46 carried from the container temporary placement unit are used. good. That is, the semi-automatic packaging operation is performed by placing the manual drug container 47 on one of the three container holding bases 69 associated with one distribution unit 68 and holding the container on the other one. The automatic drug container 46 carried from the unit 57 may be placed, and the automatic drug container 46 carried from the container temporary placement unit may be placed on the remaining one. Then, different medicines may be discharged from the three medicine containers (the automatic medicine container 46 and the manual medicine container 47) to the distribution unit 68 for packaging.

Then, in the same manner as in each of the above-described operations (completely automatic packaging operation, semi-automatic packaging operation, manual packaging operation), the container holder 69 selects the type of medicine (packaging) provided in the prescription included in the prescription data. It is determined whether or not the type of drug to be targeted matches the type of drug stored in the automatic drug container 46 or the manual drug container 47 placed on the container temporary placement portion.

When it is confirmed that the automatic drug container 46 and the manual drug container 47 are properly placed on the container holding table 69, the vibrating table portion of the container holding table 69 starts to vibrate, and the automatic drug container 46 and drug from the manual drug container 47 to the dispensing unit 68 . At this time, the feeder rotation operation for rotating the distribution unit 68, the medicine dividing operation for dividing the medicine into doses, and the like are executed in the same manner as the above-described operations, and the medicine is supplied to the medicine packaging device by the dose. It will happen.

As described above, the fully automatic powder medicine packaging machine 5 of the present embodiment is a fully automated system that automatically selects a medicine container, weighs the medicine to be used (measures the supply amount), and packs each dose. Packing operation is executable.
Furthermore, it is possible to perform a semi-automatic packing operation in which the medicine to be used is weighed and packed for each dose completely automatically.
When a plurality of powdered medicines are to be mixed and packaged, at least one medicine is stored in the automatic medicine container 46 currently held in the container storage unit 57 or the automatic medicine stored in the external management shelf. A semi-automatic dispensing operation of dispensing from container 46 and dispensing other medications from manual medication container 47 to dispensing unit 68 can be performed. This semi-automatic sachet-packaging operation can automatically execute sachet-and-package work only for some medicines in the same manner as the above-described fully-automatic sachet-package operation and semi-automatic sachet-package operation. That is, when using the automatic drug container 46 currently held in the container storage unit 57, selection of the drug container, weighing of the drug to be used, and packaging for each dose are required for at least some of the drugs. It can be executed automatically. In addition, when using an automatic medicine container 46 stored in an external control shelf, the medicine to be used can be weighed and packaged for each dose automatically.
These fully automatic, semi-automatic, and semi-automatic sachet-packaging operations have the advantage of reducing the amount of manual work compared to manual sachet-and-packaging operations, in which each dose is individually weighed by hand. be.

Further, the powdered medicine dispensing operation performed by the powdered medicine dispensing work support system 1, which is a characteristic part of the present embodiment, will be described in detail with reference to FIG.

In the powdered medicine dispensing business support system 1 of this embodiment, when a doctor inputs data related to a prescription on the external PC 6 , a signal is transmitted from the external PC 6 to the control device 2 , and the control device 2 transmits the signal to the fully automatic powdered drug dispensing machine 5 . prescription data (hereinafter simply referred to as prescription data) is created. Then, the control device 2 transmits the created prescription data to the fully automatic powder medicine packaging machine 5 (STEP 1).

In this embodiment, in order to simplify the explanation, the case where the prescription data contains only information on one prescription will be explained, but the prescription data may contain information on a plurality of prescriptions. . In this case, the operations after STEP 2 are executed for each prescription included in the prescription data.

When the fully automatic powder medicine packaging machine 5 receives the prescription data, a determination operation is performed to determine whether or not the prescription contained in the received data can be automatically processed by the fully automatic powder medicine packaging machine 5 alone. (STEP 2). That is, a determination operation is performed to determine whether or not all medicines provided in a prescription can be packaged by a fully automatic packaging operation or a semi-automatic packaging operation.

More specifically, in this determination operation, based on the prescription data, it is determined whether or not the prescription contained in the prescription data satisfies the following conditions. Determine whether or not the prescription is feasible.
[Condition 1]
All of the drugs to be provided to the patient in the prescriptions contained in the prescription data are drugs contained in the automatic drug container 46 .
[Condition 2]
In the prescription included in the prescription data, one type or a plurality of types of drugs should be provided to the patient, and the total amount of each individual drug is equal to or greater than a predetermined amount.
[Condition 3]
In the prescription included in the prescription data, when there are multiple types of drugs to be provided to the patient and the multiple drugs need to be mixed and packaged, the number of drugs to be mixed is less than or equal to a predetermined number.
[Condition 4]
The drug to be packaged by the target prescription is a drug that is not instructed by the control device 2 to be packaged by another drug packaging machine 4 .

As for the determination operation related to the condition 1 described above, in this determination operation, the operation of collating the data related to the prescription included in the prescription data with the database stored in the data storage unit is performed, and the sent prescription is packaged. It is determined whether or not all of the medicines to be used are currently stored in the automatic medicine container 46 . That is, it is determined whether the drug is stored in at least one of the automatic drug container 46 currently held in the container storage unit 57 and the automatic drug container 46 stored in the external management shelf.

Here, when one drug is to be packaged according to the target prescription, whether or not the drug is stored in the automatic drug container 46 currently held in the container storage unit 57, and whether the drug is stored externally are determined. is stored in the automatic drug container 46 currently stored in the management shelf of .
On the other hand, when a plurality of medicines are mixed and packaged according to the target prescription, whether each of the medicines is contained in the automatic medicine container 46 currently held in the container storage unit 57 is checked. , and whether or not the drug is stored in the automatic drug container 46 currently stored in the external management shelf. If all the drugs are stored in the automatic drug containers 46 currently held in the container storage unit 57 or in the automatic drug containers 46 currently stored in the external management shelf, condition 1 is satisfied. shall be assumed.

Next, an additional remark will be made regarding the determination operation regarding the condition 2 described above.
Depending on the type of powder medicine to be supplied to the distribution unit 68, if the supply amount is too small, it may be difficult to supply the specified amount by vibrating the container holding base 69. FIG. For example, some powdered medicines have a particle shape that is difficult to discharge from a medicine container. In addition, some powdered medicines tend to clump together. In the former case, there is a possibility that the predetermined amount of powdered medicine will not be discharged to the dispensing unit 68 even if the vibrating operation is performed. Further, in the latter case, the vibrating operation may result in supplying lumped powdered medicine to the distribution unit 68, resulting in the supply of an amount larger than the prescribed amount. In other words, some powdered medicines have properties that make it difficult to discharge very small amounts.

Therefore, in the present embodiment, a configuration is adopted in which the supply of drugs whose total amount is less than a predetermined amount from the automatic drug container 46 to the distribution unit 68 is not executed.
In other words, on the condition that the vibrating motion of the container holding base 69 can reliably supply the specified amount to the distribution unit 68, the fully automatic packing operation or semi-automatic packing operation is performed. More specifically, an operation is performed to determine whether the total amount of each drug is greater than the specified amount (3 g), in other words, whether it is equal to or less than the specified amount (3 g). Then, if the total amount of each of all the medicines to be packaged according to the prescribed prescription is greater than the specified amount (3 g), it is determined that Condition 2 is satisfied.

In addition to the determination operation regarding condition 3 described above, the fully automatic powder medicine packaging machine 5 first determines whether or not there are a plurality of medicines to be packaged according to the target prescription. Here, if there is only one drug to be packaged, it is determined that Condition 3 is satisfied. On the other hand, when a plurality of medicines are mixed and packaged, it is determined whether or not the number of medicines to be mixed is equal to or less than a predetermined number (6 in this embodiment). As a result of the determination operation, if the number of mixed particles is equal to or less than a predetermined number, it is determined that the condition 3 is satisfied.

Here, the predetermined number (6 in this embodiment) that serves as a criterion for determination is the total number of container holding bases 69 . This is the predetermined number when a fully automatic packaging operation using two dispensing units 68 can be performed, for example one dispensing unit 68 is already in use. If only the unit 68 can be used, the configuration may be such that the predetermined number is changed. For example, if it is confirmed that one of the dispensing units 68 is already in use, the standard predetermined number is reduced (changed from 6 to 3), and the number of drugs to be mixed is reduced. A determination operation may be performed to determine whether or not the number is equal to or less than a predetermined number.
The predetermined number after this change (three in this embodiment) is the number of container holding bases 69 associated with one distribution unit 68 .

In addition to the determination operation regarding condition 4, in the powder medicine dispensing work support system 1 of the present embodiment, the controller 2 designates the packaging machine (drug packaging machine 4, fully automatic powder medicine packaging machine 5) to perform the packaging operation. It is possible to perform operations such as execution.
Specifically, in the powder medicine dispensing business support system 1, it is possible to designate a packaging machine that performs a packaging operation for each medicine. For example, if the drug packaging machine 4 is specified as the packaging machine for packaging the drug A, even if the packaging operation for packaging the drug A can be executed by another packaging machine (the fully automatic powder drug packaging machine 5), The medicine packaging machine 4 is configured to perform the packaging operation.

In other words, normally, the fully automatic powder medicine packaging machine 5 is preferentially used when the fully automatic powder medicine packaging machine 5 is capable of fully automatic packaging operation. On the other hand, if the medicine is specified to use another packaging machine (medicine packaging machine 4), this setting is given priority and the fully automatic powder medicine packaging machine 5 does not perform the packaging operation. ing.

Furthermore, in the determination operation of the present embodiment, it is also determined whether or not a prescription determined as a prescription that can be automatically processed by the fully automatic powder medicine packaging machine 5 can be dealt with by the fully automatic packaging operation.
That is, in the determination operation, an operation for determining whether or not the following conditions are satisfied is further performed.
[Condition A]
All of the drugs to be provided to the patient in the prescription contained in the prescription data are contained in the automatic drug containers 46 currently held in the container storage section 57 .

In other words, if the condition A is satisfied, the prescription is compatible with the fully automatic packaging operation, and if the condition A is not satisfied, the prescription is compatible with the semi-automatic packaging operation. determine that there is

In addition, in the determination operation of this embodiment, one or more drugs provided by the prescription are currently stored in the automatic drug container 46 for the prescription determined to be unable to be processed automatically by the fully automatic powdered drug packaging machine 5. It is possible to determine whether or not the drug is

Specifically, for a prescription that cannot be processed automatically by the fully automatic powdered medicine dispensing machine 5 alone, the medicine currently contained in the automatic medicine container 46 in the medicine provided in the prescription and the medicine in the automatic medicine container 46 When drugs that are not currently stored are mixed (hereinafter simply referred to as a mixed state), or when all the drugs provided in the prescription are drugs that are not stored in the automatic drug container 46 (hereinafter simply referred to as unloaded) state).
Therefore, in the fully automatic powder medicine dispensing machine 5, by determining whether or not one or more medicines provided in the prescription are the medicines currently contained in the automatic medicine container 46, the target prescription is It is possible to determine whether it is in a mixed state or in an unaccommodated state.

A case where it is determined that the prescription contained in the prescription data can be automatically processed only by the fully automatic powder medicine packaging machine 5 (Yes in STEP 3) will be described.

As a result of the determination operation (STEP 2), the prescription contained in the prescription data is a prescription that can be automatically processed only by the fully automatic powder medicine packaging machine 5 (Yes in STEP 3), and furthermore, the fully automatic packaging operation can be handled (STEP 4). If Yes), the fully automatic powder medicine packaging machine 5 directly performs the fully automatic packaging operation (STEP 5). Then, the drug provided by the prescription included in the prescription data is packaged.

On the other hand, if the prescription contained in the prescription data is a prescription that can be automatically processed only by the fully automatic powder medicine packaging machine 5 (Yes in STEP 3), but the fully automatic packaging operation cannot be performed (No in STEP 4), A semi-automatic packaging operation is performed (STEP 6).
Regardless of whether the fully automatic packaging operation is performed or the semi-automatic packaging operation is performed, the medicine provided by the prescription included in the prescription data is packaged only by the fully automatic powdered medicine packaging machine 5. The Rukoto. That is, it is possible to divide and package the medicine without weighing by another device (in this embodiment, the medicine weighing device 3).

Next, a case where it is determined as a prescription that cannot be processed automatically only by the fully automatic powder medicine packaging machine 5 as a result of the determination operation (STEP 2) (No in STEP 3) will be described.

In this case, the fully automatic powder medicine packaging machine 5 creates resending data based on the prescription data and the determination result, and sends the resending data to the control device 2 (STEP 7).

This retransmission data is data to which information on the determination result for determining whether the medicines provided in the prescription are in a mixed state or in an unaccommodated state is added. The control device 2 and each dispensing device can identify whether or not the drug is stored in the automatic drug container 46 of the above.

In other words, if the prescription included in the received prescription data is a prescription that cannot be automatically packaged by the fully automatic powder medicine packaging machine 5 alone, the fully automatic powder medicine packaging machine 5 can to create resend data and send it. Information indicating whether or not each drug provided (packaged) in the prescription is contained in the automatic drug container 46 is added to this resent data.

Then, when the control device 2 receives the resent data, the control device 2 performs a weighing preparation operation (STEP 8).
In this weighing preparation operation, the control device 2 creates data (hereinafter also referred to as weighing data) to be used for the weighing operation by the drug weighing device 3 based on the resent data, and sends this weighing data to the drug weighing device 3. It is in operation to send. By performing this weighing preparation operation, the medicine weighing device 3 can be used for weighing.

Here, as described above, in the determination operation (STEP 2) performed by the fully automatic powder medicine packaging machine 5, it is determined whether prescriptions that cannot be processed by the fully automatic powder medicine packaging machine 5 alone are in a mixed state or in an unaccommodated state. can be determined.
Further, since the fully automatic powder medicine packaging machine 5 transmits data (retransmission data) to the control device 2, and the control device 2 transmits data (data for weighing) to the drug weighing device 3, the control device 2 and the drug weighing device 3, it is possible to distinguish between drugs currently contained in the automatic drug container 46 and those not.

As a result, the drug weighing device 3 can perform different display operations depending on whether the target prescription is in the mixed state or in the uncollected state.

First, when target prescriptions are in a mixed state (Yes in STEP 9), on the selection screen displayed on the operation display unit 17, only drugs that are not contained in the automatic drug container 46 are displayed in a selectable state. , the medicines stored in the automatic medicine container 46 are displayed in gray and cannot be selected by the user (STEP 10).
That is, all the medicines provided by prescription are displayed, and the medicines that are not contained in the automatic medicine container 46 and the medicines that are contained are displayed in different display forms. This makes it possible to distinguish between drugs that are not contained in the automatic drug container 46 and drugs that are contained.

At this time, the medicines that are not stored in the automatic medicine container 46 are ready for the user to select as medicines that need to be weighed.
On the other hand, the drugs contained in the automatic drug container 46 are displayed in gray and cannot be selected by the user. In other words, the drug contained in the automatic drug container 46 of the container storage section 57 is displayed in a different color from the drug not contained in the automatic drug container 46 of the container storage section 57, and the user can It cannot be selected.
The medicine displayed in gray is displayed together with information indicating which dispensing unit 68 of the fully automatic powdered medicine packaging machine 5 is to be used for packaging.

In the drug weighing device 3, even when target prescriptions are in a mixed state, it is possible to perform a selection change operation to change the drug displayed in gray to be displayed in a selectable state. ing. That is, the user performs a selection change operation so that all the medicines provided by the prescribed prescription are made selectable, and all the medicines provided by the prescribed prescription are weighed by the medicine weighing device 3. It has a configuration that can be changed.

Here, if the selection change operation is not performed (Yes in STEP 11), the selectable medicine displayed on the medicine weighing device 3 is selected, and the information reading device 27 of the medicine weighing device 3 reads the medicine bottle or medicine container. After reading the information and performing the collating operation, the weighing unit 16 is used to perform weighing (STEP 12). At this time, the weighed medicine is introduced into the manual medicine container 47 described above.

When the weighing is completed, data regarding the results of weighing performed is transmitted from the drug weighing device 3 to the control device 2 (STEP 13). Based on the received weighing result data, the control device 2 creates data to be transmitted to be used for packaging by the fully automatic powder medicine packaging machine 5, and transmits the data to the fully automatic powder medicine packaging machine 5 (STEP 14).

Then, the manual drug container 47 into which the weighed drug is introduced is placed on the container holding table 69 of the fully automatic powdered drug packing machine 5 . In this state, a semi-automatic packaging operation is performed by performing a predetermined operation on the operation display unit 48 of the fully automatic powder medicine packaging machine 5 (STEP 15). That is, the medicine is discharged from the manual medicine container 47 set on the container holding base 69 by the user and the automatic medicine container 46 set on the container holding base 69 by the arm part 61 to the distribution unit 68, and the packing operation is performed. be implemented.

As described above, when target prescriptions are in a mixed state (Yes in STEP 9), packaging is performed by a semi-automatic packaging operation unless a selection change operation is performed (as long as Yes in STEP 11). . In other words, when the drugs provided in the target prescription include drugs currently contained in the automatic drug container 46 and drugs not currently contained in the automatic drug container 46, in principle, the semi-automatic It is configured such that a packaging operation is executed.

On the other hand, if the drug provided by the target prescription is in an uncollected state (No in STEP 9) or if the selection change operation is performed (No in STEP 11), the drug Prescriptions are processed by packaging operations using the packaging machine 4 . In other words, when all the medicines provided by the target prescription are the medicines that are not currently stored in the automatic medicine container 46, the medicine packaging machine 4 is configured to perform the packaging operation in principle. .
It should be noted that instead of the packaging operation using the medicine packaging machine 4, it is also possible to perform the manual packaging operation with the fully automatic powder medicine packaging machine 5. FIG.

That is, when the weighing preparation operation (STEP 8) is performed, if the drug provided by the target prescription is in an uncollected state (No in STEP 9), all the drugs provided by the prescription are It is displayed on the operation display section 17 of the drug weighing device 3 in a selectable state.
Further, when the selection change operation described above is performed (No in STEP 11), all the drugs provided in the prescription are displayed on the operation display unit 17 of the drug weighing device 3 in a selectable state. . That is, all of the medications provided in the prescription are displayed as measurable medications.

In this state, the user selects a selectable drug, reads the information of the drug vial or drug container with the information reading device 27 of the drug weighing device 3, performs a verification operation, and then weighs the drug manually ( STEP 17).

At this time, if the drug packaging machine 4 is to be used for packaging (Yes in STEP 18 ), the weighed drug is introduced into the container used by the drug packaging machine 4 .
Then, data on the result of the weighing performed is transmitted from the medicine weighing device 3 to the control device 2 (STEP 19). Then, based on the received data about the weighing result, the control device 2 creates data to be transmitted to be used for packaging by the medicine packaging machine 4, and transmits the data to the medicine packaging machine 4 (STEP 20). Then, each container into which the drug is introduced is installed at a predetermined position of the drug packaging machine 4, and the packaging operation is performed (STEP 21).

On the other hand, when the drug packaging machine 4 does not dispense and the fully automatic powdered drug packaging machine 5 manually dispenses and packs (No in STEP 18), the weighed drug is placed in the manual drug container described above. 47.
Then, data on the result of the weighing performed is transmitted from the medicine weighing device 3 to the control device 2 (STEP 22). Then, the control device 2 creates data to be transmitted to be used in the manual packaging operation of the fully automatic powder medicine packaging machine 5 based on the received data on the weighing results, and transmits the data to the fully automatic powder medicine packaging machine 5 (STEP 23). ). Then, the manual packaging operation described above is performed by the fully automatic powder medicine packaging machine 5 (STEP 24).

In the powder medicine dispensing business support system 1 of the present embodiment, when the prescription contained in the prescription data can be processed only by the fully automatic dispensing operation or the semi-automatic dispensing operation, the fully automatic powder medicine dispensing machine 5 preferentially It is processed. In this way, prescriptions that do not require manual weighing can be handled sequentially by packaging operations that do not require weighing by the fully automatic powder medicine packaging machine 5, thereby reducing the amount of manual work in the entire dispensing business. .
In addition, even for prescriptions that cannot be processed by the fully automatic powder medicine packaging machine 5 alone, the semi-automatic packaging operation is encouraged. As a result, manual work can be minimized, and the amount of manual work can be reduced.

By the way, the fully automatic powder medicine packaging machine 5 of this embodiment performs a container exchange operation for exchanging the automatic medicine container 46 stored in the external management shelf with the automatic medicine container 46 currently held in the container storage unit 57, It is possible to execute a container addition operation for newly holding the automatic drug container 46 stored in the external management shelf in the container storage unit 57 .
The container replacement operation and container addition operation will be described in detail below.

When the user operates the operation display unit 48 to execute the container replacement operation, the automatic drug container 46 selected in advance by the user among the automatic drug containers 46 currently held in the container storage unit 57 is opened to the door part. 56 (see FIG. 5, etc.) is transported to a container temporary placement section (not shown) located on the back side. That is, the automatic drug container 46 held in the container storage section 57 is transported by the arm section 61 and placed on the temporary container placement section.

Next, the user opens the door portion 56, takes out the automatic drug container 46, and places the automatic drug container 46 stored in the external management shelf on the container temporary placement portion.
Here, an information reading operation is performed to read the information stored in the RFID tag of the automatic drug container 46, and whether or not the automatic drug container 46 placed on the container temporary placement portion by the user is correct. A confirmation operation is performed to confirm the That is, it is determined whether or not the type of drug that can be newly used in the fully automatic packing operation matches the type of drug stored in the automatic drug container 46 placed on the container temporary placement portion. be.
Further, a weight measurement operation is performed to measure the weight of the automatic drug container 46 placed on the container temporary placement section, and an information write operation is performed to store the measured weight in the RFID tag.

Then, when the door portion 56 is closed, the arm portion 61 moves the automatic drug container 46 from the container temporary placement portion to the container storage portion 57 to hold the automatic drug container 46 in the container storage portion 57 . As a result, the automatic drug container 46 held in the container storage unit 57 is replaced with the automatic drug container 46 stored in the external management shelf, and the automatic drug container 46 stored in the external management shelf is replaced. The container 46 is newly held in the container storage unit 57 .

Next, a container addition operation will be described.
The container addition operation differs from the above-described container replacement operation in that the automatic drug container 46 held in the container storage unit 57 is not taken out.
That is, in the container addition operation, the door portion 56 is first opened, and the automatic drug container 46 stored in the external management shelf is placed on the container temporary placement portion.

At this time, the information reading operation, confirmation operation, weight measurement operation, and information writing operation are performed in the same manner as the container replacement operation described above. Then, the arm portion 61 moves the automatic drug container 46 from the container temporary placement portion to the container storage portion 57 to hold the automatic drug container 46 in the container storage portion 57 . As a result, the automatic drug container 46 stored in the external management shelf is newly held in the container storage section 57 .

For example, when the container storage unit 57 holds the maximum number (33) of automatic drug containers 46 that can be held, the container storage unit 57 cannot hold a new automatic drug container 46. It's becoming In this case, by performing the container replacement operation, the automatic drug container 46 currently held in the container storage unit 57 can be replaced with the automatic drug container 46 held in the external management shelf. That is, by changing the automatic drug container 46 held in the container storage unit 57, it is possible to change the drugs that can be used in the fully automatic dispensing operation.

Further, when the number of automatic drug containers 46 held by the container storage unit 57 is equal to or less than the maximum number (33) that can be held, a new automatic drug container 46 is held in the container storage unit 57. It is in a state where it is possible to In this case, by executing the container addition operation, it becomes possible to newly hold the automatic drug containers 46 held in the external management shelf and increase the number of drugs that can be used in the fully automatic packing operation. ing.
As a matter of course, even when the number of automatic drug containers 46 held by the container storage unit 57 is equal to or less than the maximum number (33) that can be held, the container replacement operation can be performed. there is

In other words, the fully automatic powder medicine packaging machine 5 of the present embodiment is capable of changing and adding the automatic medicine containers 46 held in the container storage unit 57 by the container replacement operation and the container addition operation. It is possible to change and add medicines that can be used in the packing action.

For this reason, in this embodiment, when the fully automatic packing operation cannot be performed (No in STEP 4), the container replacement operation and the container addition operation are performed, and all the medicines to be provided to the patient are stored in the container storage unit 57. It can be in a state of being stored in the currently held automatic drug container 46 (a state in which condition A is satisfied).
That is, unlike the case described above, even if the fully automatic packaging operation cannot be performed (No in STEP 4), if the container replacement operation or the container addition operation is appropriately performed, the semi-automatic packaging operation can be performed after that. The configuration may be such that a fully automatic packaging operation (STEP 5) is performed instead of the operation (STEP 6). In such a configuration, as a matter of course, when the container replacement operation or the container addition operation is not performed, the semi-automatic packaging operation (STEP 6) is performed as it is.

In the above-described embodiment, an example in which the drug packing machine 4 and the fully automatic powdered drug packing machine 5 are used together was shown, but the present invention is not limited to this.
For example, a powdered medicine dispensing business support system that does not use the medicine packing machine 4 and only includes the control device 2, the medicine weighing device 3, and the fully automatic powdered medicine packing machine 5 may be used. That is, the configuration may be such that only the fully automatic powder medicine packaging machine 5 is used as the packaging device. In this case, when performing the determination operation described above, only the determination operation regarding conditions 1 to 3 may be performed, and the determination operation regarding condition 4 may not be performed. That is, STEP22 to STEP24 may be performed after STEP17 without performing STEP18 to STEP21.

In the above-described embodiment, an example of weighing using the drug weighing device 3 was shown, but the present invention is not limited to this. For example, a powdered medicine dispensing work support system that does not use the medicine weighing device 3 and only includes the control device 2, the medicine packaging machine 4, and the fully automatic powdered medicine packaging machine 5 may be used.
In this case, instead of the processing of STEP8 to STEP12 and the processing of STEP16 and STEP17, weighing is performed manually using a known device such as a balance.
More specifically, after the operation of STEP 7 is performed, the display device of the control device 2 displays a message prompting manual weighing. In this case, the user weighs the drug with a known device such as a balance, and introduces the weighed drug into the above-described manual drug container 47 or a container used in the drug packaging machine 4 .
However, according to such a configuration, it is not possible to perform a medicine collation operation or the like. The business support system 1 is preferable.

In the above-described embodiment, when a signal related to prescription data was sent to the control device 2, the control device 2 created prescription data and sent the prescription data to the fully automatic powder medicine packaging machine 5 (STEP 1). Then, the determination operation was performed by the fully automatic powder medicine packing machine 5 (STEP 2).
However, the present invention is not limited to this. The determination operation described above may be performed not only by the fully automatic powder medicine packaging machine 5 but also by the control device 2 . Further, the discrimination operation may be performed prior to the transmission of the prescription data instead of after the transmission of the prescription data.
That is, it may perform the operations described in detail below.

When the doctor inputs the data regarding the prescription with the external PC 6 , a signal is transmitted from the external PC 6 to the control device 2 . Then, when the control device 2 receives the signal, the control device 2 performs the determination operation described above.

As a result of the determination operation, when it is determined that the prescription contained in the prescription data is a prescription that can be automatically processed only by the fully automatic powder medicine packaging machine 5, the prescription data to be transmitted to the fully automatic powder medicine packaging machine 5. is created and sent. Then, the processing after STEP 4 is executed.

Further, as a result of the determination operation, the prescription contained in the prescription data is not a prescription that can be automatically processed only by the fully automatic powdered medicine packaging machine 5, and the medicine provided by the prescription is not currently stored in the automatic medicine container 46. , the data is transmitted to the packaging machine (drug packaging machine 4 or fully automatic powdered medicine packaging machine 5) that carries out packaging and the drug weighing device 3, respectively.
In other words, the data on the drug that is currently contained in the automatic drug container 46 and that can be distributed by the fully automatic powdered drug packing machine 5 is sent to the fully automatic powdered drug packing machine 5 .
On the other hand, it transmits to the drug weighing device 3 data on drugs that are not currently contained in the automatic drug container 46 and cannot be distributed by the fully automatic powdered drug packing machine 5 .
That is, on the basis of the prescription data, the data relating to the drug contained in the prescription is classified into two according to the determination result, and data for each of the classified data to be transmitted to the dispensing device is created. After that, a series of prescription data division transmission operations are performed to transmit the created data to different dispensing machines.

After that, on the condition that the packaging machine and the drug weighing device 3 have performed predetermined processing, data is transmitted from each to the control device 2 . This data is data related to drugs transmitted in the prescription data division transmission operation, and data including information related to the results of processing in each dispensing device is transmitted as necessary.
Specifically, for example, the drug weighing device 3 sends data on the weighing results to the control device 2 , and the fully automatic powdered drug packing machine 5 sends data on the drugs to be used for packing to the control device 2 .

At this time, the control device 2 performs a data integration operation to integrate the data transmitted from each device. For example, the data transmitted from the fully automatic powder medicine packaging machine 5 and related to drugs that can be packaged by the fully automatic powder medicine packaging machine 5 and the data transmitted from the drug weighing device 3 and the fully automatic powder medicine packaging machine 5 A data consolidation operation is performed to consolidate the data relating to the non-dispensable medication by the .

Thereafter, the necessary data is transmitted from the control device 2 to the packaging machine (drug packaging machine 4 or fully automatic powder medicine packaging machine 5) that performs packaging, and the drug packaging machine 4 performs semi-automatic packaging operation, manual packaging operation, and Any one of the packaging operations will be carried out as appropriate.

1 powder medicine dispensing business support system 2 control device (control device for dispensing equipment)
3 Drug weighing device 5 Fully automatic powder medicine packaging machine (automatic powder medicine packaging device)
17 Operation display unit (display device)
46 Automatic drug container (drug container)
57 container storage unit 60 container moving unit 68 distribution unit 69 container holding table (container placing unit)

Claims (7)

A dispensing device having a drug weighing device, a drug dispensing machine, and a fully automatic powdered drug dispensing machine, and a control for controlling the dispensing device based on prescription data including information about the powdered drug to be provided to the patient. comprising a device and a drug container containing a powdered drug,
The fully automatic powder medicine packaging machine is internally provided with a distribution unit for distributing the powder medicine discharged from the medicine container and a medicine packaging device,
Using a fully automatic powder medicine packaging machine , based on prescription data, the operation of discharging the powder medicine from the medicine container into the distribution unit, the operation of dividing the powder medicine discharged into the distribution unit into a predetermined number, and the division by the medicine packaging device. A fully automatic dispensing operation including an operation of individually packaging the powdered medicine is possible,
Is it possible for at least one of the controller and the fully automatic powdered medicine dispenser to dispense all the powdered medicines to be provided to the patient based on the prescription data only by the fully automatic dispensing operation of the fully automatic powdered medicine dispenser in the dispensing equipment? A powder medicine dispensing business support system characterized by being capable of executing a determination operation for determining whether or not. The control device is connected to each of the drug weighing device, the drug packaging machine, and the fully automatic powdered drug packaging machine, which are dispensing devices, in a state in which data can be transmitted and received via a communication network. The described powder drug dispensing business support system. As a result of the determination operation, if it is determined that the fully automatic powder medicine dispensing machine is capable of dispensing all the powdered medicine to be provided to the patient based on the prescription data, the fully automatic powder medicine dispensing machine performs fully automatic powder medicine dispensing. 3. The system for supporting powder medicine dispensation work according to claim 1 or 2 , wherein the powder medicine dispensation operation support system includes an operation of packaging only by a fully automatic packaging operation by a packaging machine . As a result of the determination operation, if it is determined that the fully automatic powdered medicine dispensing machine cannot dispense only by the fully automatic dispensing operation, all the powdered medicines to be provided to the patient are weighed by the medicine weighing device based on the prescription data. 3. The powdered medicine dispensing work support system according to claim 1 or 2 , further comprising an operation of packing the weighed powdered medicine by a medicine packing machine. 5. The powder medicine dispensing business support system according to any one of claims 1 to 4 , wherein the fully automatic dispensing operation includes an operation of weighing the powder medicine to be discharged from the medicine container to the dispensing unit. Furthermore, it has a display device for displaying information about the powdered medicine,
If the powdered medicines to be provided to the patient include powdered medicines that can be distributed only by the fully automatic dispensing operation and powdered medicines that cannot be distributed only by the fully automatic dispensing operation, the display device can distinguish between the two. 6. The powder medicine dispensing business support system according to any one of claims 1 to 5 , characterized in that a display is made to indicate that. The drug weighing device has a display device capable of displaying a selection screen for selecting a powdered drug, is capable of selecting the powdered drug displayed on the selection screen, and weighing the selected powdered drug,
As a result of the determination operation, if the powdered medicine provided in the target prescription includes a mixture of powdered medicine that can be distributed only by the fully automatic packing operation and powdered medicine that cannot be distributed only by the fully automatic packing operation, 7. The system for supporting powdered medicine dispensation work according to claim 1 , wherein data relating to powdered medicines that cannot be distributed only by an automatic dispensing operation is transmitted to a medicine weighing device.

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