JPH1156972A - Medication data control device - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To accurately give medication information to a patient. SOLUTION: This medication data control device is constituted of an input means 2 inputting the medicines administered to patients, a medication data memory section 3 storing the inputted medicines as medication data for the patients, a medicine data memory section 4 storing the medicine data containing at least the names, doses, uses, and effects of the medicines, an arithmetic section 5 selectively extracting the medicine data corresponding to the medicine stored in the medication data memory section 4 of the subject patient from the medicine data memory section 3, and a printing means 7. The medicine data extracted by the arithmetic section 5 are printed on a print medium 6.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

[0001] 1. Field of the Invention [0002] The present invention relates to a medication data management device capable of improving medication safety by accurately transmitting medication information to patients and the like.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art In recent years, a great number of drugs have been sold and used due to advances in pharmaceutical technology. These drugs are prepared by a pharmacist based on a doctor's prescription.
Handed to the patient. In addition, at the time of medical examination at a medical institution, general information about the drug, for example, information about the drug such as usage, efficacy and side effects is mainly orally transmitted from the doctor to the patient.

[0003]

In the conventional method, since there is a limit to the consultation time per person, a doctor or the like may not be able to sufficiently explain the medicine, and the patient may not be able to hear information about the medicine and erroneously. There is a possibility that the wrong medicine is taken due to the forgetting of the memory or the like, which is extremely dangerous. In addition, in a medication bag or the like, usually, only the usage is described in sentences, and it cannot be said that sufficient information on the medicine is given to the patient.

[0004] In some cases, the combination of drugs with other drugs should be contraindicated. These information on contraindications is sequentially sent to medical institutions by notification from the Ministry of Health and Welfare, and a doctor or pharmacist checks the contraindicated relationship of the drug in the medication based on the information. However, such information on contraindications is a very laborious task with the diversification of drugs, and it is difficult to completely check the information.

[0005] Further, when a patient is receiving treatment in a plurality of medical departments, or when he / she is receiving treatment at more than one medical institution, the patient is required to make a request to each medical institution. It is necessary to convey information on medicines being administered at the other medical institution and examine the interrelationship of drugs such as contraindications, but as described above, the actual situation is that patients themselves do not have sufficient information on medicines. In such a case, there is a problem that the information provision of the medicine to the medical institution cannot be performed satisfactorily, which hinders smooth treatment.

The present invention has been devised in view of the above circumstances, and provides accurate knowledge of medications to be administered to patients and the like by giving accurate information to patients and the like, so that erroneous overdose and the like can be performed. Prevent accidents and prevent patients from interacting and contraindicating medications by enabling patients to present information on medications currently being taken at other medical institutions. It is intended to provide a medication data management device.

According to the invention of claim 6, there is provided a medication data management device capable of performing safer medication by detecting a contraindicated drug in a medication to be administered beforehand and issuing a warning. It is an object.

[0008]

Means for Solving the Problems In the present invention, claim 1 is provided.
The described invention provides an input means for inputting a medicine to be administered to a patient, a medicine data storage unit for storing the inputted medicine as medicine data for each patient, at least a medicine name, a dose,
A drug data storage unit for storing drug data including usage and indications, and drug data corresponding to the drug stored in the drug data storage unit of the target patient are selected and taken out from the drug data storage unit. The medication data management device includes a calculation unit and a printing unit that prints the medicine data extracted by the calculation unit on a printing medium.

The invention according to claim 2 is the medication data management device according to claim 1, wherein the medicine data includes information on the shape and color of the medicine.

According to a third aspect of the present invention, there is provided the medication data management device according to the first or second aspect, wherein the medicine data includes information on side effects of the medicine.

According to a fourth aspect of the present invention, in the first aspect of the present invention, the printing medium is a label which is attached to a medicine bag into which a medicine is put and handed to a patient. It is a medication data management device of the description.

According to a fifth aspect of the present invention, in the medication data management apparatus according to any one of the first to third aspects, the printing medium is a medication bag in which a medicine is put and handed to a patient. It is.

In the invention according to claim 6, the medicine data storage section stores contraindicated drugs that are contraindicated with the drug, and the calculation section detects a drug that is incompatible with the drug data. The medication data management device according to any one of claims 1 to 5, wherein the device performs a contraindicated drug determination process of outputting a warning command.

[0014]

DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS One embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 shows a block diagram of a medication data management device 1 of the present embodiment. In the figure, a medication data management device 1 includes an input means 2 for inputting a drug to be administered to a patient, a medication data storage unit 3 for storing the inputted medication as medication data for each patient, and at least a name, a dose and A drug data storage unit 4 for storing drug data including usage and indications and effects, and drug data corresponding to the drug stored in the medication data storage unit 4 for the target patient are selected from the drug data storage unit. And a printing unit 7 for printing the medicine data extracted by the arithmetic unit 5 on the printing medium 6. Such a medication data management device 1 exemplifies a device installed in, for example, a pharmacy of a medical institution.

In the present embodiment, the input means 2 comprises a keyboard and a mouse. The input means 2 selects a medicine to be administered to a target patient based on a prescription sent from a doctor using the keyboard and a mouse. Can be entered. The arithmetic unit 5 including a central control unit (CPU) is connected to the input unit 2 and the printing unit 7 via the input / output port I / O, and operates in accordance with a program stored in the processing procedure storage unit 11 in advance. A predetermined process can be performed.

Further, in this embodiment, a display means 9 comprising a CRT, a liquid crystal display and the like is provided so that inputs of medication data, medicine data and the like can be sequentially confirmed.

The medication data storage section 3 and the medication data storage section 4 are stored, for example, on a magnetic disk or the like. The medication data storage unit 3 is capable of storing medication data for each patient, for example, as shown conceptually in FIG. 2, and has a patient identification number that is a unique number for identifying a patient. ID, patient name, patient insurer number, age,
In addition to data such as sex and disease name, all medicine names 1, 2,.

In the present embodiment, the medicine data storage unit 4 has a medicine identification ID, which is a unique number for identifying a medicine, as schematically shown in FIG. 3, for example.
In addition to the drug name (product name), scientific name (scientific name), European name, powder, granules, tablets or capsules, etc. Drug data such as effects, side effects, contraindicated drugs that are contraindicated with the drug, and the name of the pharmaceutical company are stored in advance.

Since the dose and usage of the drug vary depending on various conditions such as symptoms, constitution, weight, age, etc., the range of medication and the like can be divided and stored so as to assist the judgment. For example, the contents of the dose / usage of the drug data are classified and stored as "adult", "over 10", "over 5", "under 5" according to the age of the patient. ing.

An example of the processing procedure of the medication data management device 1 according to the present embodiment configured as described above will be described with reference to the flowchart shown in FIG. First, an operator of the present apparatus performs a process of selecting a medicine to be administered to a patient using the input unit 2 based on a prescription (step S1).

As a method of selecting a medicine, for example, the medicine data may be input using a keyboard. In this embodiment, for example, as shown in FIG. The medicine is displayed so that the medicine to be administered can be easily input.

As is apparent from the drug search menu screen W1, a plurality of search keywords such as a drug product name, a scientific name, a European name or a pharmaceutical company name are input using the input means 2, and the search execution button B1 is pressed. When clicked with a mouse or the like, the arithmetic unit 5 searches the drug data storage unit 4 and displays the name of the drug that matches the input search condition as a search result list in the lower left portion W2 of the screen. it can.

Further, in the present embodiment, a search drug can be narrowed down by using a mark of a pharmaceutical company (a graphic trademark or the like) as a search key. Although not shown, it has a storage unit in which a correspondence table between a pharmaceutical company name and its mark is stored in advance, and narrowing down is possible by specifying the pharmaceutical company name from the selected mark.

The medicine displayed in the search result list on the medicine search menu screen W1 is specified, and a medicine information display button B2
Is clicked using the mouse or the like of the input means 2 to obtain FIG.
The detailed information of the medicine can be displayed on the display means 9 as a medicine information screen W3 as shown in FIG.

Next, in this embodiment, a process of selecting a patient to be administered is performed (step S2). This process may be performed before the process of selecting a medicine to be administered. In the present embodiment, the process of selecting a patient can be performed, for example, by clicking the medication data change button B3 in the center on the right side of the medicine search menu screen W1 shown in FIG. When the medication data change button B3 is clicked,
A medication menu screen W4 as shown in FIG. 7 is displayed.

On the medication menu screen W4, a list of pre-registered patients is displayed by clicking the list box L1 at the right corner of the patient name column, and a target patient can be selected. In addition, in the case of a new patient, clicking the new patient registration button B4 displays a patient data input screen W5 as shown in FIG.
Predetermined data can be registered.

Next, in the present embodiment, processing for adding the selected medicine to the medication data of the selected patient is performed (step S).
3). In this process, the selected drug is added and stored in the medication data of the patient in the medication data storage unit 3 by clicking the “Add to medication data button” B5 on the medication search menu screen W1 in FIG. It will be.

Further, in the present embodiment, the arithmetic unit 5 performs a contraindication determination process of detecting a drug that is incompatible with the drug data and outputting a warning command (step S4).
Are illustrated. The subroutine of this process is shown in the flowchart of FIG.

In this contraindicated drug determination process, in this example, first, the names of all the drugs that are being administered to the target patient are read from the medication data storage unit 3 into the work storage unit 10 (step S41). Next, from the medication data storage unit 3, step S
For each of the medicines read in the process 41, the contraindicated medicines are sequentially read into the working storage unit 11 with reference to the item of contraindicated medicines in the medicine data storage unit 4 (step S4).
2). Then, it is determined whether or not these contraindicated drugs are included in the administered medicine (step S43). If they are included (Y in step S43), a warning command is output (step S44). .

In response to this warning command, for example, the display means 9
Output warning sound, warning message, etc.
Since the operator can be informed that the mixing of the medication is dangerous, the medication can be avoided, so that the medication safety can be improved.

On the other hand, if the contraindicated drug is not included in the administered drug (N in step S43), the process returns to the main routine of FIG. 4 and prints the drug data on the printing medium with respect to the printing means. A print command to be output is output (step S5). In this embodiment, the print command is started by clicking the medication information print button B6 shown in FIG. The printing medium 6 on which the medicine data is printed by the printing means 7 is intended to accurately inform the patient of the medication information by handing the medicine data to the patient. Preferably, it is easy.

Therefore, in the present embodiment, the printing medium 6 is
As shown in FIG. 10, the label 8 is characterized by being a label 8 attached to a medication bag (not shown) into which a medicine is put and handed to a patient. This allows the patient to see the medication bag when taking the medicine, such as when taking out the medicine.
, It is possible to constantly check the usage, efficacy, and the like regarding taking, improve the transmission of medication information to the patient, and allow the user to accurately grasp information on the drug.

In order to accurately grasp the medication information for the patient, it is necessary to set the content of the information to be displayed on the label 8, but preferably, in the present embodiment, as shown in FIG. Shows the name of the medicine, the shape and color of the medicine, the dosage and usage, and the indications and effects. In addition, the shape of the medicine includes an image of the medicine, which is preferable in that the identification of the medicine can be more reliably performed, and accidental ingestion and excessive dose can be suitably prevented.

Further, in this embodiment, the arithmetic unit 5 reads the age of the patient from the medication data storage unit 3 and
As for the usage, a preferred example is shown in which only the portion of the relevant age is printed. With this configuration, it is possible to more reliably prevent an accident such as overdose of a medicine.

Further, the medication information displayed on the printing medium is not limited to the above embodiment, and for example, the following combinations can be adopted. Drug name, shape and color (with image image), dosage and usage Drug name, shape and color (without image image), dosage and usage Drug name, shape and color (without image image), dosage and usage, side effects Shape / color (no image), dosage / usage, name of pharmaceutical company Drug name, shape / color (no image), dosage / usage, side effects, name of pharmaceutical company

As described above, by adding the side effect information of the medicine to the medication information displayed on the printing medium 6,
This has the advantage that the side effects of the drug can be accurately communicated to the patient in advance, which helps to detect the side effects of the drug at an early stage, and can facilitate the treatment. It is also preferable to add an effect and an effect to, respectively. Further, before the medicine data is printed on the printing medium 6, the contents are once checked on the display means 9, so that a doctor, a pharmacist or the like can make a comment necessary for the dose, usage, etc., and add or correct the contents. It can be configured as follows.

It is preferable that the printing medium 6 can be attached to the medication bag by gluing or the like, and it is also preferable to print the label 8 on the back surface with a seal. Further, the printing medium 6 may be a medication bag itself in which a medicine is put and handed to a patient. In this case, it is preferable in that the trouble of attaching the printed label 8 to the medication bag can be omitted. Then, the medicine is put in the medication bag, and the printing medium 6 can be handed to the patient together.

The medication data management device 1 of the present invention, when installed in a medical institution, stores the medication data storage unit 3,
It is preferable to adopt a so-called client-server type network in which the medicine data storage unit 4 is configured to be shared by a large number of terminals. Also, the medicine data storage unit 4
It is preferable to automatically update the approval of new drugs, the update of information on contraindicated drugs from the Ministry of Health and Welfare through a CD-ROM or the Internet, thereby further improving the maintainability of the apparatus. It is also preferable to print a color image image using a color printer or the like as a printing unit.

[0039]

As described above, according to the first aspect of the present invention, the information on the medicine administered to the patient can be selected from the medicine data storage unit, taken out, and printed on the printing medium. By handing the body to the patient, it is possible to accurately inform the patient of medication information, for example, the name of the drug, the dose, and the efficacy. This allows the patient to enjoy sufficient information on the medicines being taken, to prevent accidental overdose, etc., and to provide medication information to other medical institutions by indicating the printed material. It can be transmitted accurately.

According to the second aspect of the present invention, since the medicine data includes information on the shape and color of the medicine, the medicine data is printed on a printing medium and handed to the patient, so that the medicine information can be more accurately obtained. In particular, when a plurality of medicines are mixed, the medicine can be identified by the shape, color, and the like of the medicines, which helps to prevent erroneous ingestion more reliably.

According to the third aspect of the present invention, the medicine data includes information on side effects of the medicine, which is printed on a printing medium and handed to the patient, so that the side effects of the medicine can be accurately given to the patient in advance. It can convey, help early detection of side effects of the drug, and can facilitate treatment.

According to a fourth aspect of the present invention, the printing medium is a label which is attached to a medication bag for containing a medicine and handed to a patient. Since the body is a medicine bag to put the medicine and hand it to the patient, in any case, the patient can check the usage, efficacy, etc. by looking at the medicine bag when taking the medicine, etc.
The transmissibility of the drug information to the patient can be enhanced, and the information on the drug can be surely grasped.

In the invention described in claim 6, the medicine data storage section stores contraindicated drugs that are contraindicated with the drug, and the calculation section detects a drug that is contraindicated for the drug data. By performing a contraindicated determination process of outputting a warning command as a result, a combination contraindicated check by a physician or pharmacist can be supplemented, and a check error or the like can be prevented, thereby improving the safety of medication.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a conceptual diagram illustrating an example of a data structure of a medication data storage unit.

FIG. 3 is a conceptual diagram showing an example of a data structure of a medicine data storage unit.

FIG. 4 is a flowchart showing a processing procedure of the medication data management device.

FIG. 5 is a configuration diagram showing a medicine search menu screen.

FIG. 6 is a configuration diagram showing a medicine information screen.

FIG. 7 is a configuration diagram showing a medication menu screen.

FIG. 8 is a configuration diagram showing a patient data input screen.

FIG. 9 is a flowchart illustrating a processing procedure of contraindication determination processing.

FIG. 10 is a plan view showing an embodiment of a printing medium.

[Explanation of symbols]

 REFERENCE SIGNS LIST 1 medication data management device 2 input means 3 medication data storage unit 4 medication data storage unit 5 arithmetic unit 6 print target 7 printing means

Claims (6)

[Claims] 1. An input means for inputting a medicine to be administered to a patient, a medicine data storage unit for storing the inputted medicine as medicine data for each patient, and at least a name of the medicine, a dose / usage and an effect / effect. A medicine data storage unit for storing medicine data including the medicine data, an operation unit for selecting and extracting medicine data corresponding to the medicine stored in the medicine data storage unit of the target patient from the medicine data storage unit, And a printing means for printing the medicine data extracted by the section on a printing medium. 2. The medication data management device according to claim 1, wherein the medication data includes information on the shape and color of the medication. 3. The medication data management device according to claim 1, wherein the medication data includes information on side effects of the medication. 4. The medication data management device according to claim 1, wherein the printing medium is a label that is attached to a medication bag in which a medicine is put and handed to a patient. 5. The medication data management device according to claim 1, wherein the printing medium is a medication bag for containing a medicine and handing the medication to a patient. 6. The drug data storage unit stores contraindicated drugs that are contraindicated with the drug, and the arithmetic unit detects a drug that is contraindicated in the drug data and outputs a warning command. The medication data management device according to any one of claims 1 to 5, wherein a contraindicated drug determination process is performed.