JPH0312159A - System for compounding and separately packing medicine - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To eliminate necessity for operation to read a medical prescription or to input a control key and to easily and exactly execute work for compounding and separately packing medicine by providing a separately including device to separately include the medicine which is compounded based on the memory contents of a controller. CONSTITUTION:A controller 1 is composed of a storing part 9 to store information to be inputted from an input device 4 and control part 10 to receive signals from a compounding device 2, separately including device 3 or both identifying devices 5 and 6. When the signal is inputted, the control part 10 selects a required compounding condition or separately including condition from the storing part 9 and outputs the condition to the compounding device 2 or separately including device 3. When the call number of the medical prescription of an object to be compounded is called on the operation board of the compounding device 2, the condition required for compounding is outputted from the control device 1 to a controller 4 of the compounding device 2 and the contents of the condition are displayed on a display 17. When a correct medicine bottle 16 is picked up and next, the medicine is taken out of the medicine bottle 16. Only the designated quantity of the medicine can be taken out by adjusting the quantity of the medicine.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION [Field of Industrial Application] The present invention relates to a system for reliably and efficiently dispensing and packaging medicines.

[Conventional technology]

Usually, drugs are prepared based on a prescription issued by a doctor, and the prepared drugs are packaged and handed to patients.

Conventional drug dispensing work involves first removing the vial containing the specified drug from the drug tank based on the contents of the prescription.
A specified amount of medicine is weighed and taken from the medicine bottle using the measuring device of the dispensing device, and this operation is performed for all the medicines written in the prescription.

The medicines dispensed in this way are stored in medicine containers and transported to a packaging device.In order to check the contents of the dispensed medicines, the prescription and the medicine are placed in the medicine container at the same time, and their condition is checked. Transport by.

During the packaging operation, the contents of the prescription contained in each drug container are checked, and the control keys of the packaging device are operated to meet the packaging conditions based on the written contents.

At this time, if the patient's name or drug name is to be printed on the sachet, the patient's name or other printed content is read from the prescription and the control key of the sachet is operated. When all the control key operations are completed in this way, the medicine in the medicine container is put into the packaging device, and the medicine is divided into required amounts.

[Problem to be solved by the invention]

However, in the above-mentioned dispensing/packaging work, the contents of the drug in the drug container are verified only by the prescription placed inside the container. If a prescription is lost, the contents of the medicine in the container will become completely unknown, and further processing will not be possible.

In addition, when putting drugs into a packaging device, it is necessary to read the contents of the prescription and operate the control keys of the packaging device, which may lead to misunderstandings in the read contents or operational errors. There are many drawbacks that occur.

Furthermore, reading patient names and drug names for printing and inputting control keys are laborious and time-consuming operations, which has the disadvantage of significantly reducing work efficiency.

Therefore, the present invention solves the above-mentioned drawbacks and can reliably transmit the drug contents of a drug container to a packaging device without using a prescription. It is an object of the present invention to provide a drug dispensing and packaging system that makes it possible to easily and accurately perform drug dispensing and packaging work without requiring any operations.

(Means for Solving the Problems) In order to solve the above problems, the present invention provides a control device that stores the written contents of a prescription, and a dispensing device that measures the amount of medicine dispensed based on the stored contents of the control device. and a packaging device for packaging the dispensed medicine based on the memory contents of the control device, and a medicine container for transferring the dispensed medicine between the dispensing device and the packaging device, respectively. A mark is provided to distinguish the container from other containers, and a first identification device and a second identification device for identifying the mark are provided close to the dispensing device and the packaging device, respectively, and the first and second A structure was adopted in which the identification device was connected to the control device.

Here, the mark provided on the drug container can use symbols such as barcodes, radio waves, ultrasonic waves, electromagnetic waves, etc. Correspondingly, identification devices include symbol readers, receivers, and sonic sensors. etc. are used.

[Effect]

In the above configuration, after the medicine dispensed by the dispensing device is put into the medicine container, the mark on the medicine container is identified by the first identification device, so that the contents of the prescription stored in the control device can be identified. Register in association with the sign.

Next, the label on the drug container is identified by the second identification device, and based on the identification signal, the control device outputs packaging conditions corresponding to the identified label to the packaging device. Thereby, necessary mixing and packaging can be performed simply by putting the medicine inside the medicine container into the packaging device.

When the packaging operation is completed, the registration of the label in the control device is deleted, the relationship between the prescription contents and the label is broken, and the drug container is used repeatedly.

〔Example〕

Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the accompanying drawings.

FIG. 1 shows a block diagram of a dispensing and packaging system according to the present invention.

As shown in the figure, a dispensing device 2, a packaging device 3, and an input device 4 for inputting the contents of a prescription are connected online to the control device 1.

Further, a first identification device 5 and a second identification device 6, which are barcode reading devices, are connected to the control B unit W1, and these two identification devices 5, 6 are connected to the dispensing device 2 and the dispensing device 2, respectively. It is located close to the device 3.

The control device 1 is composed of a storage section 9 that stores information input from an input device 4, and a control section 10 that receives signals from the dispensing device 2, the packaging device 3, and both identification devices 5 and 6. ,
When the control unit 10 receives a signal manually, it selects necessary dispensing conditions and packaging conditions from the storage unit 9 and outputs them to the dispensing device 2 and packaging device 3.

The storage unit 9 is a data file that registers, for each prescription, patient name, Tomei name, quantity, dispensing conditions, packaging conditions, etc. in association with a call number for each input prescription. is provided, and a first identification device 5
When the identification signal of the code number is input from the computer, the identified code number and the call number of the data file are associated with each other and registered.

As shown in FIG. 2, the dispensing device 2 includes a measuring device 12 and a receiver 13 provided on a workbench 11, a controller 14 connected to the measuring device 12 and the receiver 13, and a transmitter 15 on the bottom. The controller 14 is connected to a display 17 that displays output signals.

The transmitter 15 of each medicine bottle 16 is configured to output a separate coded signal, and the memory of the controller 14 contains information about the internal drug name and the code signal for each medicine bottle 16. It is registered in association with. The transmitter 15 has a built-in switch that is activated when the medicine bottle 16 is tilted, so that when the medicine bottle 16 is tilted while being taken out of the medicine tank, a signal is automatically transmitted. It has become.

As shown in FIG. 3, the packaging device 3 includes a packaging mechanism 18 that mixes and packages drugs, a printing mechanism 19 that prints required characters, etc. on the packages containing the drugs, and a control mechanism. It consists of a controller 20 connected to the device 1 and a display 21 connected to the controller 20. When the controller 20 receives information such as the amount of medicine to be prepared, the number of sachets, or the patient's name for printing, the controller 20 controls the mixing time and the amount of sachets based on a preset program. The conditions such as these and the arrangement of patient names and drug names on the divided packaging are determined, and the movements of the packaging mechanism 18 and the printing mechanism 19 are controlled based on the results.

Further, between the dispensing device 2 and the packaging device 3, there are provided a large number of drug containers 7 for storing and transporting dispensed drugs, and these drug containers 7 are shown in FIG. As shown, it is a dish-shaped container with an open top, and on its top,
A barcode sheet 8a is attached to each. The code number of the barcode 8 written on this sheet 8a is set to be different for each container.

This embodiment has the above-mentioned configuration, and its operation will be explained next.

First, the input device 4 causes the control device 1 to store the memorized contents of a prescription issued by a doctor before dispensing work.

In this state, next, on the operation board of the dispensing device 2,
When the call number of the prescription to be dispensed is called, the conditions necessary for dispensing are output from the control device 1 to the controller 14 of the dispensing device 2, and the contents are displayed on the display 17.

The dispensing operation is carried out by taking out the specified drug vial from the medicine tank based on the contents of the prescription displayed on the display 17. At this time, the receiver 13 receives the signal from the transmitter 15 of the vial 16. When you receive it, is it a control? The illumination device 14 compares the received signal with the registered drug, and if the two are different, the display 1
An error signal is output to 7. Therefore, the operator can reliably know whether the medicine bottle 16 that has been taken out is correct.

In this way, take out the correct medicine bottle 16, and then
When the medicine is taken out into the measuring device 12, the controller 14 compares the measured value with the amount specified in the prescription, and outputs an error signal to the display 17 if the amount exceeds the allowable value. therefore,
By adjusting the amount so that there is no error signal, only the specified amount of medicine can be taken out.

When the above operations are performed for all types of drugs displayed on the display 17 and the dispensing is completed, a signal indicating the completion of measurement is output from the controller 14, and the name and amount of the measured drug is output on the display 17. do.

The dispensed medicine is then stored in a medicine container 7, and the barcode 8 affixed to the container 7 is read by the first identification device 5. Is the code number from this first identification device 5 controlled by the control device 1? 11 When input to section 10, in control device 1,
The input identification code and the data file storing the contents of the prescription that has been dispensed are registered in association with each other. As a result, in the control device 1, the specific medicine container 7
and the written contents of a specific prescription are correlated with each other.

Thereafter, the drug container 7 is moved to a standby table or the like placed close to the packaging device 3.

In the packaging operation, first, the barcode 8 of the medicine container 7 is read by the second identification device 6. As a result, the control device 1 extracts the conditions necessary for packaging from the prescription data file corresponding to the read code number, and outputs them to the controller 20 of the packaging device 3. These packaging conditions include mixing time, number of packages, packaging speed, and information for printing such as patient name, age, drug and its quantity, date of issue, etc. .

This puts the packaging device 3 in a standby state with the necessary control program, so when you next put the medicine inside the medicine container 7 into the drug inlet of the packaging device 3 and activate the operation start button, the medicine will be delivered to the required state. They are mixed and packaged according to the conditions, and then
Required characters are printed on the sachets and the sachets are carried out from the sachets.

When the packaging operation is completed in this manner, the code number of the barcode is deleted in the control unit 10 of the control device 1, and the association between the code number and the data file is dissolved. For this reason,
The chemical container 7 can then be used repeatedly.

In the above embodiment, the barcode 8 is shown as a mark for identifying the drug container 7, but there are other FM code signals as well.
Radio waves such as waves, magnetism, ultrasonic waves, etc. can also be used.

In this case, a radio wave receiver, a magnetic reader, a sonic wave detector, or the like is used as the identification device.

〔Effect of the invention〕

As explained above, according to the present invention, a mark is provided on the drug container and this mark is associated with the contents of the prescription, so that the contents of the dispensed drug can be reliably transmitted to the packaging device. This allows for accurate packaging work at all times.

In addition, the conditions necessary for dispensing and packaging are automatically output to the dispensing device and packaging device using signals from the identification device, so there is no need to worry about mistakes in reading prescriptions or problems with control key operation. This eliminates errors and makes it possible to perform drug dispensing and packaging operations extremely easily and reliably.

[Brief explanation of drawings]

Fig. 1 is a block diagram showing the dispensing packaging system according to the present invention, Fig. 2 is a diagram showing the structure of the dispensing device, Fig. 3 is a block diagram showing the dispensing packaging device, and Fig. 4 is a perspective view of a drug container. It is. 1... Control device, 3... Packaging device, 5... First identification device, 7... Chemical container, 2... Dispensing device, 4... Input device, 6... Second identification device, 8... Bar code.

Claims (1)

[Claims] (1) A control device that stores the contents of a prescription, a dispensing device that measures the amount of medicine dispensed based on the contents stored in the control device, and packages the medicines dispensed based on the contents stored in the control device. A drug container for transferring the dispensed medicine between the dispensing device and the dispensing device,
each providing a mark to distinguish itself from other containers, and providing a first identification device and a second identification device for identifying the mark in proximity to the dispensing device and the packaging device, respectively;
A drug dispensing and packaging system comprising: and the first and second identification devices connected to the control device.