JPH10334169A - Guide system for general medicine - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To secure the safety and effectiveness of general medicines provided to patients by providing a computer system for storing and processing information for unitarily managing medicinal items and components and chemicals, etc., for acting on a human body. SOLUTION: After a start screen is displayed on a display device 3, a 'continue' button is pressed and the menu screen of a first stage is displayed. One of displayed six frames for indicating the classifications of the general medicines is selected. Then, the menu screen of a second stage is displayed and the required one is selected from among five groups. Then, after displaying the menu screen of a third stage and selecting a required medicine group, the component menu of a forth stage and the formulation menu screen of a fifth stage are displayed. Then, desired selection is performed in a sixth stage. Then, selection elements pertinent to the selection operations of first - fifth stages are decided, the general medicine for satisfying them is selected from the information of the medicinal items or the like and relating information is displayed on the display device 3.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a system for providing information for ensuring the safety and effectiveness of a drug to be provided to a patient at a pharmacy, a pharmacy, or the like, and to a system for guiding the selection of a drug.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art There are few technical examples in this field, and there is Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 5-89150 as a related technique. Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. Hei 5-89150 relates to a POS system having a search function for over-the-counter medicines. The purpose is to provide. This system prints a list of over-the-counter medicines suitable for the symptoms on the receipt by inputting information on the symptoms of the customer. The customer can refer to this information and select from the list to select the medicine he / she prefers, and the pharmacy has the feature of increasing sales.

[0003] Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 8-153145 discloses a technical example relating to the safety and efficacy of prescription drugs. This drug prescription design safety management device details the causes of phytotoxicity.In order to prevent phytotoxicity, it uses rational and standardized information that makes effective use of computerized information rather than physician artistic prescriptions. It is characterized by providing a prescription device for performing prescription design, and the rigor to pursue is very helpful for those who do not have specialized knowledge. However, the important thing of prescription design in medical institutions is the subject of the invention, but phytotoxicity is not only at the prescription design stage in hospitals etc., but is also eaten by general drugs or patients sold at pharmacies that can be said to be downstream. It is necessary to include in the design target even the interaction with foods.

[0004]

The problem to be solved by the present invention is to solve the problem relating to a simple procedure and method for selecting general drugs while ensuring the safety and effectiveness thereof. . After explaining about prescription drugs (prescription drugs; generic drugs and prescription drugs are collectively referred to as “pharmaceuticals” below), it is necessary to ensure the safety and efficacy of general drugs, even though they are general drugs. Explain the necessity of ensuring safety and effectiveness.

[0005] Patients usually purchase and take medicines prescribed by a doctor at a pharmacy after consultation by a doctor.
In order to ensure the safety, prescribing design by the doctor and prescription management in pharmacies are performed. Regarding the necessity of ensuring the safety and effectiveness of prescription drugs, see JP-A-8-153.
145. This document suggests that some of the various problems that are regarded as unique Japanese medical problems can be solved by utilizing and exchanging information and managing drug history.

A recent article (1997) seems to have prevented medical accidents if there was utilization / exchange of information and management of drug history.
Introduced in the Asahi Shimbun evening evening on January 27, 2008, a patient was prescribed acetazolamide, an intraocular pressure-lowering agent, at a certain ophthalmology clinic due to glaucoma, but became sick and treated at another emergency hospital. Was to be received. At the hospital, a physician diagnosed and treated for allergy to acetazolamide, and then took over to an ophthalmologist, who was discharged from the hospital in less than two weeks. The patient went to the hospital and found that she had diabetes, and she was given a diabetic drug.However, she had increased intraocular pressure and was at risk of blindness.The ophthalmologist stopped taking the drug she disliked and gave her an intravenous injection, but she was given acetazolamide. The patient died of shock. According to the article, the internal medicine and ophthalmology had separate medical records, and the contact list specified "drug allergy", but the name of the drug was only given orally. Diabetes drugs given in the internal medicine were also sulfonamides like acetazolamide.

[0007] This example shows that physicians who diagnosed diabetes, including ophthalmologists with 10 years of experience, had some knowledge of phytotoxicity but did not recognize that it was so important, and did not exchange information in hospitals. Tell that it is enough. The current medical administration has issues to be improved with regard to the exchange and dissemination of information, and doctors have knowledge of medicines and know how to use them, but according to the patient's constitution, past drug history, physical condition of the day There seems to be a challenge to improve on the pharmacological effects of the drug of properly prescribing.

[0008] Although the need for ensuring the safety and efficacy of prescription drugs has been described with reference to some cases, the safety and efficacy of general drugs also need to be secured. The general drug is generally one in which a small amount of one prescription drug is used to suppress and alleviate the efficacy or a mixture of two or more thereof. It is usually licensed on the condition that it has been alleviated and sold. However, phytotoxicity is still occurring, and in fact there is the following report. The number of cases suspected of causing side effects due to drugs purchased from pharmacies and the like was 256 in FY 1994, and the number of prescription drugs was 1,540 for reference. Of the 256 cases listed above, the first place was the cold medicine 37 cases, the following topical analgesic / pruritic / astringent / anti-inflammatory drugs 34 cases, Kampo preparations 34 cases, antipyretic analgesics 27 cases, antitussive expectorants 14 cases , Vitamin-containing health drug 1
There are 4 cases and 12 cases of vitamin B1 active drug formulation (published by Pharmacy Shimbun Co., Ltd. in '96 pharmacy and pharmacy DATA)
BASE page 57). However, it is assumed that the actual number of cases not listed in the statistics is many times this number. Although the above case does not detail in what circumstances it occurred, it does indicate the need to ensure safety and efficacy for general drugs.

[0009] In the past, some ethical drugs have been switched to general drugs from the viewpoint of controlling medical expenses, and there are some cases in the future, and recently, as part of the deregulation of pharmaceuticals, some general drugs have been classified as drugs. The government is considering removing it, and it is likely that high security items will be targeted, but it is necessary to manage various information related to them. The following is an example that should be used as a reference. Showa 30
In the 1980s, many medicated soaps containing germicides were available, but the germicides incorporated therein caused photoallergy. The disinfectant was banned from use in cosmetics and pharmaceuticals, but nevertheless the dermatitis did not go away. 7-8
A year ago, the disinfectant was displayed on the ingredient label of shampoos sold as wet shampoos (SIGNATURE, March 1997, Issued by Nippon Diners Club, No. 10).
It depends on the description on the page. The above example suggests that some centralized information management is required for chemical substances or drug components.

Having described the necessity of ensuring the safety and efficacy of general drugs, the problems with regard to sales and selection of general drugs will be described. The current situation surrounding patients and medicines is complicated, and medicines / medical division of labor makes it possible to obtain medicines outside the hospital and at any pharmacy / pharmacy that does not require family care, and therefore, unexpected harm due to improper use. In some cases, and may cause duplication / interaction when used in combination with ethical drugs. In addition, the occurrence of interactions with ethical drugs and general drugs or various foods including folk medicines, health foods, and dietary supplements currently being developed or sold with them, and luxury goods, as well as the patient's personal history and constitution In some cases, the information is excessively large and complicated to prevent these adverse effects, and the patient cannot usually cope with the problem.

Currently, in addition to pharmacies specializing in dispensing medicines, pharmacies and drug stores of a new business type handling various kinds of products and foods based on general drugs are expanding their stores. In such a store, there are pharmacists, but many customers are unable to respond to each customer due to time restrictions when visiting the store, or other sales staff who lacks specialized knowledge When dealing with or in rare cases, lack of knowledge of the pharmacist himself or the inability to obtain appropriate information may make it impossible to judge duplicates / interactions and respond appropriately to the suitability of the product, and thus lacks trust. There are cases. Therefore, in such a case, it is convenient to have a system that can appropriately select general medicines from various types of products according to the patient's symptoms and the like.

An example of a procedure for selecting a general drug is disclosed in JP-A-5-89150.
Originally, it is unclear to what extent display devices for other applications are used and to what extent they can be selected for symptoms, and how much to ensure safety with respect to side effects, etc. Simple and easy to understand,
It is desirable to have a reliable sense of dialogue. The general drug selection procedure itself is not complicated, in which the method of selecting a doctor or pharmacist is converted into an expert system as logic, but it is convenient if the general drug can be selected according to another simple standard. More recently, young people have purchased the medicine without asking for explanations without talking to clerks at pharmacies and drugstores. It is desirable that these young people can provide sufficient information on general medicines.

An object of the present invention is to provide a system for providing information for ensuring the safety and effectiveness of general medicines to be provided to patients, which guides the selection of medicines.

[0014]

Therefore, in order to prevent the above-mentioned phytotoxicity, it is necessary to pay proper attention to components of pharmaceuticals and the like, and it is necessary to disseminate information on phytotoxicity, drug history and the like. For this purpose, it is necessary that such information be managed and processed in a centralized manner and that anyone can refer to it at any time. The present invention, in order to achieve the above objects, pharmaceuticals and pharmaceuticals and ingredients that act on the human body,
A computer having means for storing and processing information (hereinafter referred to as information on pharmaceuticals, etc.) for centrally managing chemical substances, drugs, etc., and a guide screen for selecting general drugs, A computer system comprising a program for retrieving and processing information on medicines and the like stored by the elements selected on the displayed guide screen, and C having means for displaying the information
This is a system including a display device such as an RT, and input means such as a touch panel installed on the display device for selecting a selected element on a displayed guide screen.

[0015]

FIG. 1 shows the basic configuration of a system for explaining an embodiment of the present invention. In FIG. 1, reference numeral 1 denotes a person who operates the system.
Includes pharmacists dispensing, sales staff for other medicines, patients who need medicines, purchasers, etc., as well as those who are educated on the handling or contents of the system. Reference numeral 2 denotes a computer (including a personal computer, a microcomputer, etc.) having a storage device for storing information such as medicines, which is connected to the display device 3. The display device 3 may be any device suitable for displaying necessary information on a device such as a CRT or a liquid crystal, and in such a case, an audio output device such as a speaker is also incorporated. It can output audio and the like. A plurality of display devices 3 may be used depending on the purpose of the system and the nature and amount of information to be displayed. The operation of computer 2 includes search and display control,
For example, a mouse, a push button, a keyboard, a touch panel, a voice input device, a light input device, and the like are provided as an instruction input device that enables an operation. ing. Therefore, the operator 1 of the system operates the touch panel 4
This system can be easily operated by pressing with your fingertip. A display device may include an integrated touch panel in some cases.

The installation location of this system may be a hospital, a pharmacy / pharmacy, a place where general drugs are treated, a medical facility such as a clinic, or a place where health foods, dietary supplements, and luxury goods are handled together. Any place that is appropriate for the purpose. Further, it may be a place suitable for education of medicine and education of handling.

First, information on drugs and the like regarding the means for solving the problems will be described. The information relating to the drug and the information necessary for the present system are stored by a storage program in a drug etc. information file shown in FIG. 2 in a storage device of the computer shown in FIG.
When referring to information on a drug, the product name of the drug,
In addition to descriptive information about the drug, such as its ingredients, indications, effects, usage, dosage, action, and price, the original image information of the drug, such as the package outline and dosage form, and commentary on the drug,
It may include usage information, image and audio information such as commercials, and the like. When the display device 3 is suitable for displaying character information or the like, the displayed information is only character information or the like. When the display device 3 is suitable for displaying image information or the like, the information is displayed. The information can include image information and the like.

The information on what was a medicinal product does not have to include details as much as the information on the medicinal product when it is a medicinal product, but at least includes a description of the product, such as ingredients, usage / dosage, and price, by the manufacturer. In this case, information such as efficacy, caution, and the like is further included, and the information is stored in the information portion of the drug in the drug information file shown in FIG. For information items such as indications, it is inappropriate to use the letters of indications because the product is not a pharmaceutical product, and other expressions may be used. Let me represent you. For chemicals and drugs that have an effect on the human body, information on their trade names, components, actions and, if applicable, their characteristics, such as precautions, is also included in the other components, chemicals, and drugs in the drug information file shown in Fig. 2. Store. This includes health foods, special dietary supplements, and the like.

It is desirable to have a general drug database which contains information on the above-mentioned necessary items for a large number of general drugs for each general drug.
It may also have a database of prescription drugs. This is because when there is a prescription drug having the same component as that of a general drug, the action of the component is described in detail in the information on the prescription drug.
Therefore, it may have both a general drug database and a prescription drug database. The ethical drug database may be a ethical drug database constructed by extracting only ethical drugs having the same components as general drugs from the ethical drug database, or there may be only a general drug database but the same A configuration in which information such as action, caution, and the like of a prescription drug having a component is extracted may be added. These information are integrated as shown in FIG.
Is stored in the drug information section of the drug information file shown in FIG.

The information on the drug may be based on information compiled by related organizations / organizations based on the approval of the Ministry of Health and Welfare, or may be edited by involvement of other medical organizations / organizations. . As described above, the contents of the product name, ingredient, efficacy / effect, usage / dose,
In general, it contains information on side effects, warnings, cautions, contraindications, and interactions, as well as information on effects and prices, when applicable to ethical drugs.

The information corresponding to the interaction information out of the information on the drug includes the name of another drug interacting with the drug or the name of a component capable of specifying the drug. A drug can be easily identified by these names, or a drug having the component can be identified by the name of the component.

For information on side effects, warnings, cautions, contraindications, pregnant women, children and the elderly, if at least that information is present in that part of the information on the drug, side effects, warnings, cautions, contraindications are displayed. Although it is the object of the information to be confirmed, information on pregnant women, children, and the elderly may be selected if the patients themselves are not pregnant women, children, and the elderly.

The side effects, warnings, cautions, and contraindications indicate information on taking the drug alone, but if the drug is taken two or more times, the dose will be duplicated, and thus the information on side effects and the like will be duplicated. Some contain information about Overlap is defined as the overlapping administration of the same or other drugs with the same components or in combination with other drugs with other components that exhibit the same action.

Although the information on the medicine has been described above, the information on the patient himself may not be stored in the present system, or may be considered when purchasing / selecting the medicine. The information on the patient himself / herself may include a history of the patient himself / herself, constitution, foods, and luxury goods which interact with the general drug to be purchased. Therefore, these may be subject to the selection caution information as well as the interaction between medicines.

The pre-existing disease is information on the patient himself, and is a past or present medical history of the patient, for example, diabetes,
Heart disease, etc. If the patient has these pre-existing conditions, search for information on the drug's side effects, warnings, cautions, contraindications, etc., to see if it contains the names of these pre-existing conditions. Display processing is also possible.

The constitution is also information on the patient himself, and relates to the past or present constitution of the patient, in particular, allergy, hay fever, frailty, etc., and is treated in the same manner as the past. For example, when selecting an antipyretic analgesic, it may be better to select either a pilin type or a non-pyrine type depending on its constitution. The food is a food that the patient eats, and includes not only so-called health foods but also special nutritional foods, dietary supplements and the like. These foods have the function of specific components of the food,
Synergistic effects due to physiological effects are expected, but some require caution when eating with pharmaceuticals.For example, in the case of pharmaceuticals, warfarin and natto or chlorella, nisoldifin and grape juice, etc. There is. The favorite items are tobacco, coffee, alcohol, and the like that the patient prefers, and there are cases where there are combinations that require attention, such as sleep-inducing agents and alcohol.

Next, the processing of the information on the medicine will be described. As for the information stored in the storage device as the information on the medicine, the means for searching for necessary information such as interaction information from the information is achieved by a search program created for the purpose. The search processing will be described using interaction information as an example. As described above, the interaction information includes information on another drug that interacts with the drug in the portion of the interaction information. However, they may be in the form of indirect information that is not sufficient to identify them. For example, when there is an expression of an AA derivative, or when a similar component of the component is to be considered, information that can be specified enough is required. In such a case, sufficient information for identification may be included in the part of the interaction information from the beginning or may be added to the part as specific information, or as specific information as shown in FIG. It may be defined in the form of a file having information on a drug that directly defines a relationship.
The process of identifying a drug that interacts with the form of the file shown in FIG. 3 can be simplified. As an example, FIG. 4 shows an example of the detailed operation when a plurality of medicines are selected and information on the interaction between these medicines is retrieved. In FIG. 4, a search operation is performed from one drug among a plurality of selected drugs. If there is no information in the file shown in FIG. 3 specifying the name or component of the selected other drug that interacts with the drug (Step 1), the drug in the drug information file shown in FIG. It is determined whether or not the interaction information part includes specific information for specifying the name or component of another drug (Step 2). If it is not included, search for whether the same string as the name of the selected other drug or the character string of the component is included in the interaction information part of the drug in the drug information file shown in FIG. (Step 3). As a result, the names or components of one or more medicines that match are set as the interaction search results (Step 4). If there is other specific information and the specific information can be specified, one or more drug names or components that match the selected other drug names or components in the specific information are set as the interaction search results ( Step
5). After the search on the selected one drug is completed, the same search operation is performed on the other selected drugs. 2 and FIG. 3, the specific information for the drug aa is in the interaction specifying information file shown in FIG. 3, and the interaction information for the bb is also the drug information file shown in FIG. However, there is no specific information for cc, so the specific indicates a case of searching for a character string in the interaction information of cc.

Duplication is defined as the overlapping administration of the same or other drugs with the same ingredients or in combination with other drugs with other ingredients exhibiting the same action. In the case of medicines having the same component, other medicines including the self having the component can be immediately searched by the program without the search operation shown in FIG. 4 using the component. However, in the case of a drug having another component having the same action, another drug having the same ingredient having the same action is also programmed by a program based on the specific information defining the drug in the duplicate specifying information file shown in FIG. Search for.

The case of searching for information having a character string using a drug name or a component as a search element (keyword) has been described above. For example, for a cold remedy, the component does not contain aspirin, it is used for antipyretic, If you want something that works,
Search for cold, fever, and cough as elements, and as a result, information that includes these elements in information on pharmaceuticals is presented, and obtain the desired information by excluding those that contain aspirin as an ingredient from them. Can be.
If the user wants a tablet as a dosage form, it is possible to further retrieve information already selected using the tablet as an element to obtain information having a tablet dosage form. The above processing is performed after the elements to be selected in the general medicine selection processing are determined as shown in FIG.
Is used to search for information files such as medicines.

Although the search processing has been described above, an example of a search method has been described, and many other advanced methods have been used. Therefore, any search processing suitable for the purpose of the present system can be adopted for the search processing, such as how to have the specific information of the file shown in FIG. 3 or an index / dictionary for making the search faster and more accurate.

Next, a procedure / method for selecting a drug among the means for solving the problem and a configuration of a guide screen for implementing the procedure / method for the selection in the present system will be described below. The handling of pharmaceuticals requires expertise and the types of products are diverse. For example, when it comes to cold medicine, it is necessary to select the one that is effective for coughing, the antipyretic analgesic, and the other one that is appropriate for the symptoms.Also, there are various dosage forms of the same product, such as powders, tablets or capsules, and liquids. Is normal. The person who intends to purchase the drug confirms and selects in advance the efficacy and effect of the drug, the ingredients, the usage, the dose, the action, and the like. Therefore, when purchasing a drug, it is necessary to have a mechanism for easily and surely selecting what the purchaser prefers while checking the safety and effectiveness of the drug used as described above.

A general procedure for selecting a medicine by a doctor or the like will be described below. Naturally, information on a normal drug naturally contains information on the disease or its symptoms for which the drug exerts its effects, and information on the body part of the patient who exerts the effect, such as the head and chest. There are many cases. Usually, a physician diagnoses the disease based on the symptoms reported by the patient and the parts of the body where the symptoms appear, and further performs necessary various detailed tests to diagnose the disease comprehensively based on the test information obtained. Prescribe medicines to treat or alleviate the condition. In the case of Kampo medicine, comprehensive judgment is made based on the symptoms reported by the patient and the parts and constitution of the body where the symptoms appear, and a Kampo medicine having an effect and effect on the symptoms is prepared and compounded. From these facts, it can be said that symptoms and body parts are very important factors or information in selecting a medicine. An example of what kind of symptoms usually appear is shown in FIG. 5 as a list of symptoms. The symptoms shown in FIG. 5 are obtained by classifying various symptoms according to a certain standard, and the symptoms are further classified. In the classification shown in FIG. 5, symptoms accompanied by the names of body parts, such as head, chest, abdomen, Many stomachs and other parts of the body are closely related to the symptoms. Therefore, in the selection of general drugs, it is usual to select at least two factors, these symptoms and the name of the body part, but since there is a need for specialty and there are so many factors and symptoms, these It is not easy to create a system that properly selects drugs in consideration of the situation. Further, the symptoms shown in FIG. 5 also include mild symptoms in a range from those requiring a doctor's diagnosis to those that can be targeted by general drugs. Therefore, from the viewpoint of general drugs, the classification shown in FIG. It requires selection and expression within the scope of general drugs.

Therefore, in the present invention, it is considered that the know-how of these doctors or pharmacists is not systematized but solved from a different point of view by a simpler and easier-to-understand method. That is, first, the patient himself estimates the disease of the person from the symptoms of the person and the part of the body where the symptoms appear as much as possible, and selects a classification name to which a general drug effective for the disease belongs. In a method, the system provides guidance and the necessary information to make general drug choices with the patient while ensuring safety and efficacy. Therefore, general drugs are classified according to certain criteria, and if they are selected according to the classification, it is possible to easily and reliably select the target general drug while ensuring the safety and efficacy of the general drug. It is convenient if you can. FIG.
2 shows two examples of the classification. One of these two cases is a classification of all general drugs from the viewpoint of medical personnel, and the other is also considered to be a classification of general drugs frequently used by general consumers. Therefore, it is considered appropriate to follow the classification of general drugs targeted by this system from the point of view of general consumers, and pharmacies should understand the pharmacy's own sales standards and general consumer trends. It can be said that it is good to change the classification in consideration of this. For example, when selling vitamins, it can be said that it is easier for general consumers to classify with vitamins than with nourishing tonics. In addition, items whose sales change depending on the season or the like may be taken in and out of the classification. As described above, the selection of general drugs may be started by the user of the drug selecting one of the classifications from the viewpoint of non-specialized general consumers.

After the selection of the classification of the general drug, the next element to be selected is a symptom belonging to the classification and a specific / detailed symptom that the patient appeals. It can be said that general drugs were almost selected at the stage of selecting symptoms that corresponded to the symptoms complained of by the patient at this stage of the symptom. That is, there may be a case where information for preventing a side effect related to a history of allergic diseases or the like is required.

In this system, the means for selecting a general drug is constituted by the display device 3 and a menu display program, and this menu display program displays a menu screen for guiding selection of the general drug. FIG. 7 shows an example of the screen configuration of the menu to be guided. When a general drug is to be selected, at least four types of first-stage menu screens that are first viewed by a person who operates the system may be considered.

The first menu screen displays the names of general drugs existing in the drug information file shown in FIG. 2, for example, in the order of eyewear, and selects a specific general drug from the displayed list of names. It is. Therefore, when a large number of general drugs are present in the drug information file shown in FIG. 2, unless a general drug to be selected is determined in advance, each general drug is selected and information on the general drug is displayed. It takes a lot of selection time to search for the target while checking. FIG. 8 shows an example of the first menu screen.
On the first menu screen shown in FIG. 8, general drugs can be selected or input by two methods. One is a method of selecting from general medicine list display, and the other is a method of inputting the name of general medicine. When the user selects or inputs one general drug, the user presses the “information display” button on the screen shown in FIG. 8 and immediately passes the first general drug from the drug etc. information file shown in FIG. Information on the medicine can be obtained and the information can be displayed on the screen shown in FIG. When the "check" button is pressed, the screen shown in FIG. 22 is displayed. The description of the screen shown in FIG. 22 will be described in a third embodiment.

The second menu screen is selected from the above-mentioned classification of general drugs. The patient himself estimates the disease of the person from the symptoms of the person and the part of the body where the symptoms appear, and evaluates the efficacy of the disease. This is equivalent to selecting a certain general drug group. An example of the second menu screen will be described in the first embodiment. The third menu screen is for selecting a symptom, an example of which is shown in FIG. In the menu shown in FIG. 9, the user selects the symptom that seems to be the best from the displayed symptoms, and proceeds to the menu of the next detailed symptom. The fourth menu screen is used to select a part of a patient's body, for example, the head, eyes, belly, etc., and an example is shown in FIG. In the menu shown in FIG. 10, the body part where the symptom appears, such as the head or the abdomen, is selected, and the process proceeds to the next detailed symptom. These four types of menus in the first stage may be appropriately selected according to the purpose of the system according to the characteristics of each of them. When a general drug is selected on any of the second to fourth menu screens, an element for search is determined according to the selected content, and finally one or more general drugs are selected. You can get information.

The menu in the second stage is a screen relating to selection of specific and detailed symptoms of the patient in FIG. By selecting the relevant symptom on the screen related to this symptom, when the path 1 is applicable, one or more applicable general drugs can be selected. For the symptoms of the second stage, a drug having an effect and effect on the symptoms (hereinafter referred to as “medicinal effect”) may be expressed. In the case of paths j and k, a third-stage menu screen for further confirming the safety and effectiveness of general drugs, that is, caution information for preventing side effects due to incorrect selection or a fourth-stage menu screen That is, some general drugs require a component selection screen. Further, a fifth-stage menu screen related to selection of a general drug dosage form may be provided as pass 1.
Of the menu screens, the menus of the first and second stages are indispensable except for the path e, but the menus of the third to fifth stages cannot display the information of general medicine unless they go through these menus in that order. Some aren't essential either. In such a case, the order of each step may be changed, a menu of different steps may be displayed on the same screen, and there is room for selecting a step. For example, at the end of the second stage, information of one or a plurality of general drugs is first displayed, and cautionary information for preventing side effects due to erroneous selection corresponding to the third stage is also displayed and selected. Alternatively, information of a plurality of general medicines may be displayed first, and menus from the third stage to the fifth stage for further narrowing down selection may be displayed on the same screen. In such a case, the information of the general medicine selected by the operation up to the second stage is naturally displayed once, so that the number of general medicines to be displayed is increased, so that the selection may be lost.
Menu screen operation to reach general drug information is 2
It can be done at the stage.

Further, in the screen configuration shown in FIG. 7, as the menu of the dosage form and the like at the fifth stage, a menu relating to the history of the patient, the constitution, the food, and the favorite items can be added as well as the side effect prevention. Depending on the contents of the general medicine, a menu screen can be configured so that the operator of the system can operate and select easily. Also, various other selection / input menu screens may be considered. For example, it is possible to further narrow down the selection if the drug purchaser is brand-oriented or has a price standard. Alternatively, a pharmacy can consider a menu screen including a questionnaire to collect various sales information from the viewpoint of a drug sales strategy.

[0040]

EXAMPLE 1 As Example 1, the basic configuration shown in FIG. 1 was used, and only the information on general drugs was stored in the file shown in FIG. 2 and the file shown in FIG. 3 was not required. The operation of selecting a general medicine will be described.
FIG. 11 shows a flowchart of the operation and processing of the computer 2 in the first embodiment, and FIGS. 12 and 13 show screen configuration and selection elements. In the flowchart shown in FIG. 11, the menu display program first displays a start screen on the display device 3 (Step 10). FIG. 14 shows an example of the displayed screen. The person operating the system 1 is shown in FIG.
Press the "Continue" button on the start screen with your fingertip to continue the operation by understanding the information displayed in the above, especially the attention information of allergic constitution, pregnant woman, etc. In response to this input instruction, the menu display program displays the first-stage menu screen (Step 11). FIG. 15 shows an example of the menu screen at the first stage. The operator 1 of the system 1 has six frames (nutritional health drug, cold related drug, gastrointestinal drug) indicating the classification in the general drug classification screen which is the first-stage menu displayed on the display device 3. , Dermatological drugs, general test drugs, or other drugs) and press them with your fingertips. The classifications of general drugs shown in FIG. 15 are six types. In the frame indicating the classification, the general drugs are classified and understood based on the symptoms corresponding to the classification of the general drugs and the efficacy of the general drugs belonging to the classification. Other expressions besides the class names have been added for ease of use.

The menu display program displays the second stage menu screen according to the classification of the selected general medicine pressed with the fingertip (Step 12). FIG. 16 shows an example of the menu screen in the second stage. The screen in FIG. 16 is displayed when “cold-related drug” is selected on the classification screen shown in FIG. On the screen shown in FIG. 16, symptoms / medicinal effects are classified into five groups, which are five groups such as cold, fever / pain, cough / tan, rhinitis, and mouth / throat. If the operator 1 of the system selects fever / pain from these 5 groups, the antipyretic analgesic is the target, so side effects due to pilin allergy should be noted. It is necessary to display a screen (Step 13). Therefore, the menu display program displays the third stage menu screen (Step 14). FIG. 17 shows an example of the menu screen at the third stage. FIG. 17 explains cautionary information for preventing side effects due to erroneous selection of an antipyretic analgesic, and guides the necessity of selecting a pilin-based or non-pyrine-based component of a general drug. The menu screen of the next stage when the pilin system is selected on this screen is displayed (Steps 14 to 17). FIG. 18 shows an example of the menu screen at the next stage. The screen shown in FIG. 18 has a screen layout in which selection can be made simultaneously on the fourth-stage ingredient menu and the fifth-stage dosage form menu screen, and consideration is given to facilitating the selection operation.
In addition, other screens of the sixth stage are also displayed so that the user can select a major brand or select a price preference. Then, by selecting the screen shown in FIG. 18, the selection element corresponding to the selection operation from the first step to the fifth step is determined, and the general medicine satisfying the selection element is obtained from the drug information file shown in FIG. The information of the selected general medicine thus selected is displayed (S
step18). Fig. 1 shows an example of the display of general drug information.
9 The operator 1 of the system selects one of the displayed three general medicine products to be finally purchased by pressing the product name with his / her fingertip to confirm the selection (Step 19).

As described above, the present system can appropriately guide the selection of general drugs according to the patient's symptoms, and provides safer and more useful information on general drugs. In the first embodiment, an example in which the classification of general drugs is six is described. However, as described above, this classification is not limited to six. As described above, the guide includes not only the display of the packaging of the general drug and the image of the dosage form on the display device 3 but also the provision of information by voice linked with the screen, the guide and the commentary on the general drug, the method of use, commercials, etc. image·
The guide may include audio information or a guide by a virtual sales person, and is a guide in accordance with the purpose of ensuring the safety and effectiveness of the general drug, and is more easily understood by the operator 1 of the system and appropriately selects the general drug. Anything that provides as much information as possible meets the purpose of the present invention. A person who intends to purchase a general medicine can purchase the selected general medicine by notifying the name of the selected general medicine to the salesperson. When a printer is added to the device configuration of the first embodiment, information about the selected general medicine can be printed, and the printed matter can be purchased by presenting the printed matter to a salesperson.

As described above in this embodiment, even if a person who intends to purchase a general drug does not have any specialized knowledge, it is guided by the present system and appropriately checks the safety and efficacy of the general drug while checking the safety and effectiveness of the general drug. It is possible to select. In addition, this selection makes it possible to make a quick selection from a variety of products, and if applicable, image information such as product packaging and dosage form is displayed and it is possible to purchase general medicine with consent I do. Also, in a pharmacy, a drug store, etc., it is possible to save labor for explanation of general drugs by installing this system at a store or the like. Furthermore, pharmacies and pharmacies are able to positively prioritize and recommend products that are the highlights of each category, and it is possible to appeal more effectively with image and audio information.

Example 2 relates to the check of duplication / interaction with general drugs. The search operation for drug overlap / interaction has already been described in Means for Solving the Invention. A method for enabling the safety and efficacy of general drugs to be ensured by the present system when a plurality of general drugs are taken and exhibiting harmful effects will be described below.

A general drug is different from a prescription drug in that it usually has two or more components. Therefore, many of them have different brand names but have the same components, and they are also classified into the same efficacy group, but some exhibit an interaction when used in combination. Therefore, general patients who do not have accurate knowledge of general drugs may unknowingly cause duplication / interaction between general drugs. Although it is a general drug, its safety and effectiveness should be strictly checked. In the case of the present embodiment, at least information on general drugs is stored in the drug information file shown in FIG. 2, and in addition to information on prescription drugs, the file format shown in FIG. 3 may be adopted.

Now, the operation of this system for checking the overlap / interaction when the patient intends to use a plurality of general drugs or when selecting a plurality of general drugs by the guide system described in the first embodiment will be described. This will be described with reference to the flowchart shown in FIG. In FIG. 20, the patient
The user selects a plurality of general medicines or inputs their names on the general medicine selection / input screen shown in (1) and presses a "check" button (Step 50). This system displays the check screen shown in Fig. 22 when the "check" button is pressed,
A plurality of general drugs selected or input on the screen shown in FIG. 8 are displayed in the selected product name portion (Step 51). Next, the patient presses the “duplication / interaction” button (Step 5).
2). This system displays the overlap / interaction information with other general drugs based on the components of the first general drug among these selected general drugs by pressing the “overlap / interaction” button in FIG. Search according to the search flow shown, and when a general drug has multiple components, all
The interaction information is searched (Step 53), and if there is one or more pieces of information related to one or more other general drugs selected in the duplication / interaction information (Step 54), the information display shown in FIG. All the information is displayed on the screen (Step 55). The patient judges whether or not it is appropriate by seeing the displayed information regarding the overlap / interaction information (Step 5).
6). As a result, when it is determined that the selection is not appropriate as a selection, the user presses a “select alternative” button on the screen to display one or a plurality of alternatives of general drugs (Step 57), and determines an alternative from among them (Step 58). ). Then, as a result of the re-search, when it is determined that the information is appropriate with respect to the overlap / interaction information, the same processing is performed for the next selected general drug (Step 59). Then, when the check has been completed for all the selected general medicines, the processing ends (Step Ste).
p60). As described above, the present system enables the check of overlap / interaction when a plurality of general drugs are used in combination, and also allows the display of alternative products.

As described above, in the present system, when a substitute is selected because one general medicine overlaps and interacts with another general medicine, another general medicine replaces the other general medicine. Is presented as a substitute. Alternative products are searched for from the group of the same or similar efficacy to which the other general drug belongs, and one or more are presented excluding those containing components that exhibit overlap / interaction with one general drug. .

Embodiment 3 is shown in FIG. In the third embodiment, it is possible to check whether or not the personal information of the patient, that is, the occurrence of an action between a pre-existing disease, constitution, food, a luxury item, and a general medicine or other substance. In the third embodiment, the file shown in FIG. 2 stores at least information on medicines, information on medicines, other components, chemical substances, drugs, and the like. In the screen shown in FIG. 8, the operator of the system presses the “others” button to display and select a drug, other ingredients, chemical substances, drugs, etc., or select one of these names. And then press the “check” button. As a result, the system displays the check screen shown in FIG. Then, on the screen shown in FIG. 22, the names of other objects selected or input on the screen shown in FIG. 8 are displayed in the selected product name portion. FIG.
When the patient presses the "information display" button on the screen shown in Fig. 2, the system searches for information on other things in the file shown in Fig. 2 and checks for information on past illness, constitution, foods, and favorite items. If such information exists, the system displays an information display screen shown in FIG. 21 and displays details of the information of the other objects.

In FIG. 22, it is possible to easily check whether or not there is information related to the selected product and the selected pre-existing condition, constitution, food, or favorite item. The operator of the system selects an object to be checked on the screen shown in FIG. 8, and presses a “check” button. As a result, the system displays the check screen shown in FIG. Then, on the screen shown in FIG. 22, the name of the object to be checked, which is selected or input on the screen shown in FIG. 8, is displayed in the selected product name portion. An operator of the system presses a "check" button on the screen shown in FIG. The system searches the file shown in FIG. 2 for information related to the object to be checked, and checks whether there is any information belonging to the history, constitution, foods, and favorite items. If such information exists, the information is used. Is particularly emphasized in the display section of the history, constitution, foods, and luxury goods displayed on the screen shown in FIG. 22 to call attention.

As described above, the person who operates the system is shown in FIG.
Necessary information can be obtained while viewing one or both of the detailed information on the screen shown in FIG. 1 and the simplified information on the screen shown in FIG.

In the third embodiment, an example of the prohibited germicide used in the medicated soap described in the problem to be solved by the invention will be solved as follows. It is assumed that information on the product of the bactericide, which was a pharmaceutical, including information on its components and the action of causing photoallergy is registered in the file shown in FIG. The operator of the system uses the screen shown in Fig. 8 to display the components (or trade name) of the pet shampoo.
And press the “check” button. As a result, the system displays the check screen shown in FIG. Then, on the screen shown in FIG. 22, the component (or product name) input on the screen shown in FIG. 8 is displayed in the selected product name portion. When the operator of the system presses the "information display" button, the system searches for information on the component (or product) in the file shown in FIG. 2, and when the information exists, the system displays the information shown in FIG. A display screen is displayed to display details of information of the component (or product). When the operator of the system presses the "check" button on the screen shown in FIG. 22, the system searches the file shown in FIG. 2 for information on the component to be checked, and retrieves the history, physical constitution, foods, and preferences. Check for the presence or absence of product information. If such information is present, highlight that information in the display section of the history, constitution, foods, and luxury items displayed on the screen shown in FIG. Display and call attention.

As described above, it is easy to display information which can determine whether or not a component acts on a person by centrally managing the information. Similarly, in the case of a medical accident due to allergy to acetazolamide described in the problem to be solved by the invention, drug history management that manages chronological medication information and constitutional information is implemented centrally as a whole hospital and exchange of information It was an accident that could be prevented by thoroughly disseminating it.

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As described above, according to the present invention,
In addition to information on pharmaceuticals, information on pharmaceuticals and other components, chemical substances, drugs, etc. can be centrally managed and information provided by these can be provided effectively, ensuring the safety and efficacy of drugs provided to patients Can provide information on how to do so and guide the selection of appropriate over-the-counter medications that match the symptoms. In addition, necessary information on general drugs can be used in pharmacies and drug stores, and appropriate information on side effects, including duplication and interaction caused by the combination of general drugs, can be provided by a simple operation. In addition, when the patient is a pregnant woman, cautionary information can be provided. Therefore, the present invention can avoid accidents due to inappropriate administration of general drugs, and can provide adequate general drug information to patients, and can be used to give sufficient caution and guidance. In addition, since the general use of this guide system can be expected to educate employees by using a variety of general medicines, the daily use of this guide system will help improve the qualities of the employees. Is also effective.

Further, according to the present invention, when it is determined that the general drug is not appropriate as a result of the determination of suitability, another general drug having the same effect and showing no overlap / interaction is used as a substitute. It will be displayed and you can select a more appropriate general medicine.

Further, according to the present invention, packaging of the general drug,
By displaying image information such as a dosage form, it is possible to provide information that is easier to understand and more effective than character information. In addition, a more effective guide system can be provided by also displaying audio information and other image information linked with another screen of the image information.

Furthermore, by registering information on pharmaceuticals and other information on ingredients such as foods, various foods, chemical substances, drugs, etc., such information can be handled in a unified manner, and how these substances work. Can be searched and displayed, and more accurate and detailed information on safety can be obtained.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a diagram showing an outline of a basic configuration of the present system.

FIG. 2 is a diagram showing an information file relating to a medicine and the like.

FIG. 3 is a diagram showing a file for storing information for specifying a component and duplication of a drug in an information file on the drug.

FIG. 4 is a diagram illustrating a search operation of interaction information.

FIG. 5 is a diagram showing a list in which symptoms are classified.

FIG. 6 is a diagram showing a classification list of general drugs.

FIG. 7 is a diagram showing a menu screen at each stage and a reaching path from the menu screen to information on a medicine.

FIG. 8 is a diagram showing a screen used for selection and input of a general drug.

FIG. 9 is a diagram showing a screen for selecting a symptom.

FIG. 10 is a diagram showing a screen for selecting a body part.

FIG. 11 is a diagram illustrating an operation of the computer system in the first embodiment.

FIG. 12 is a diagram showing the contents and selection elements of a menu screen at each stage according to the first embodiment.

FIG. 13 is a diagram showing the contents and selection elements of a menu screen at each stage according to the first embodiment.

FIG. 14 is a diagram showing a start screen of the guide system shown in the first embodiment.

FIG. 15 is a diagram showing a menu screen of a first stage of the guide system shown in the first embodiment.

FIG. 16 is a diagram showing a menu screen of a second stage of the guide system shown in the first embodiment.

FIG. 17 is a diagram showing a menu screen of a third stage of the guide system shown in the first embodiment.

FIG. 18 is a fourth and fifth views of the guide system shown in the first embodiment.
FIG. 13 is a diagram showing a menu screen of a sixth stage.

FIG. 19 is a diagram showing an information screen of general drugs selected by the guide system shown in the first embodiment.

FIG. 20 is a view showing a flowchart for checking overlapping / interaction of general drugs in Example 2.

FIG. 21 is a diagram showing a screen displaying information such as general medicine.

FIG. 22 is a diagram showing a screen for checking the action, duplication / interaction of a general drug or the like, or selecting a substitute.

[Explanation of symbols]

 DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Person who operates system 2 Computer 3 Display device 4 Touch panel

Claims (4)

[Claims] 1. A computer having means for storing and processing at least information on general drugs and a guide screen for selecting general drugs, and a medicinal product stored by an element selected on the displayed guide screen System comprising a program for searching for and processing information relating to a computer, etc., and a CRT having means for displaying the information
And the like, and an input means such as a touch panel provided on the display device for selecting a selected element on the displayed guide screen. 2. The guide system according to claim 1, wherein in the system according to claim 1, the overlap / interaction between the general drug and the general drug is checked and the information is provided. 3. The system according to claim 2, further comprising the step of providing information on substitutes with respect to duplication / interaction of general drugs. 4. The system according to claim 1, wherein the information on the general drug is a general drug, other components,
2. The system according to claim 1, wherein information on a chemical substance, a drug, and the like is additionally stored, and an action between the patient's medical history, constitution, food, and luxury goods is checked.