TWI797531B - Pharmacy management system - Google Patents

Abstract

A pharmacy management system can be applied to a drug database. The drug database stores multiple drug data. The pharmacy management system includes: a drug data input device, which includes an image capture unit and a An optical character recognition unit for converting at least one pattern on a medicine package into an image data file, and the optical character recognition unit for performing character recognition on the image data file to automatically generate a drug data to be updated, the drug data to be updated contains a date information; and a management program, signal connected to the drug data input device, used to receive the drug data to be updated to update the drug database, and based on the date information, perform data on multiple drugs belonging to the same first category Sorting is used to give a reminder of the priority order for a drug receiving procedure or a drug withdrawal procedure.

Description

Pharmacy Management System

This case is a drug store management system, especially a drug store management system used in medical institutions.

With the expansion of medical institutions, the pharmacies attached to them will face more complex drug inventory management and import and export processes. However, due to the particularity of the drug itself and the strict management requirements that cannot make mistakes, the general warehouse management system is not suitable. And if it relies on manpower to handle it, it will consume a lot of human resources. And when human error occurs accidentally, the cost loss caused is very difficult to estimate.

The traditional drug store drug scanner device can only scan general product barcodes, and cannot automatically enter the expiration date or other text, and must be used next to the computer host when inputting data, and cannot be carried with you, nor can it be directly displayed at the time of receipt. Import drug records into the drug store information system.

In this case, in order to improve the lack of the above-mentioned conventional means, a drug storehouse management system was developed, which can be applied to a drug database. There are multiple records of drug records stored in the drug database. The drug storehouse management system includes: a drug storehouse A data input device, which includes an image capture unit and an optical character recognition unit, the image capture unit is used to convert at least one pattern on a drug package into an image data file, and the optical character recognition unit is used for Perform character recognition on the image data file to automatically generate a drug data to be updated, the drug data to be updated contains a date information; and a management program, signal connected to the drug data input device for receiving the drug to be updated After the data is updated, the drug database is updated, and according to the date information, a plurality of drugs belonging to the same first category are sorted, so as to remind a priority order of a drug receiving procedure or a drug withdrawal procedure.

According to the idea above, in the drug library management system described in this case, the drug data input device includes an image capture unit and an optical character recognition unit, and the image capture unit is used to convert at least one pattern on a drug package to An image data file is formed, and the optical character recognition unit is used to perform character recognition on the image data file to automatically generate a drug data to be updated, and the drug data to be updated includes a date information.

According to the above idea, in the drug storehouse management system described in this case, the image capture unit includes a barcode scanner and a camera module, wherein the barcode scanner is used to scan the product barcode on the drug packaging, and then obtain the information of the drug manufacturer. Provide a drug information, the camera module is used to photograph the package label to form the image data file, the image data file is automatically generated by the character recognition program performed by the optical character recognition unit, and the drug data to be updated, The drug information to be updated is used to combine with the drug information corresponding to the product barcode to form a complete information.

According to the above idea, in the drug storehouse management system described in this case, the camera module is integrated in a smart phone, and the optical character recognition unit is an application program installed in the smart phone

According to the above idea, in the drug storehouse management system described in this case, the optical character recognition unit is set in the data processing center in the cloud.

According to the above idea, in the drug storehouse management system described in this case, in the character recognition process performed by the optical character recognition unit, it refers to the drug information and corresponds to a preset format of the drug, which is automatically and correctly Generate the drug information to be updated accurately, so as to correctly fill in the numbers in the appropriate fields.

According to the above idea, in the drug storehouse management system described in this case, a light box is further provided in the image capture unit, which includes a housing, a lamp and a fixing bracket. The housing is used to block the interference caused by external light, The fixing bracket is used to fix the medicine package to be photographed, and the lamp illuminates the outline of the non-ink-printed medicine box text to improve the accuracy of the subsequent character recognition process.

According to the above idea, the drug storehouse management system described in this case further includes a display unit, and the management program makes a priority prompt to be displayed to the user for reference through the display unit.

In order to improve the lack of the above-mentioned conventional means and to have a clearer understanding of the above-mentioned idea of the present invention, the following embodiments are enumerated below, and detailed descriptions are given below with corresponding drawings.

Please refer to Fig. 1, which is a functional block diagram of a drug storehouse management system developed in this case, which is mainly applied to a drug database 11, which stores a plurality of drug data 110, 111, 11n, the drug library management system 10 includes a drug data input device 100 and a management program 101 . The drug data input device 100 includes an image capture unit 1001 and an optical character recognition unit 1002, the image capture unit 1001 is used to convert at least one pattern on a drug package (not shown in this figure) into a An image data file 1003, the optical character recognition unit 1002 is used to perform character recognition on the image data file 1003 to automatically generate a drug data to be updated 1004, the drug data to be updated 1004 includes a date information (such as year/month /Day: 2022/10/10).

The internal details of the above-mentioned image capture unit 1001 can be shown in FIG. 2 , which can include a barcode scanner 10010 , a camera module 10011 and a light box 10012 . Among them, the barcode scanner 10010 is used to scan the product barcode (Barcode) on the drug package (not shown in this figure), and then obtain the drug information provided by the drug manufacturer. The image data file 1003 is formed by the external packaging mark, and the image data file 1003 can automatically generate the drug data 1004 to be updated by the character recognition program performed by the optical character recognition unit 1002 . The drug information to be updated 1004 can be used to combine with the drug information corresponding to the product barcode to form a complete information. Even better, the drug information (such as pharmaceutical factory, drug name, batch number, etc.) obtained from the product barcode (Barcode) can know in advance the format of the date information commonly used by the pharmaceutical factory to which the drug belongs (such as year/month/ day, day/month/year or month/day/year) and types (for example, different meanings such as production date or effective date), so the image data file 1003 is processed by the optical character recognition unit 1002 During the character recognition program, the drug information can be referred to to correspond to the default format of the drug, and the drug information 1004 to be updated can be automatically and correctly generated, that is, the numbers can be correctly filled into the appropriate fields.

Also, because of the packaging marks on the drug packaging (such as date information such as production date or expiration date), some use steel stamps to print on the packaging shell, and the packaging marks printed with steel stamps are not easy to be photographed by the camera module 10011 It is clear, which in turn affects the correctness of the drug information 1004 to be updated which is automatically generated by the subsequent character recognition program. Therefore, this case is also provided with a light box 10012, the details of which are shown in Figure 3, which include a housing 30, a lamp 31 and a fixed bracket 32, and the housing 30 can be a black box made of black plastic to block the light caused by external light. interference, while the lamp 31 includes a set of upper light sources 311 installed directly above the inside of the casing 30 and another set of side light sources 312 installed on the side, and the fixing bracket 32 is used to fix the medicine package 35 to be photographed , and directly above the outside of the casing 30, there is a shelf 33 that can be used to place the camera module 10011 to prevent image errors caused by slight shaking of the human hand, so as to illuminate the outline of the non-ink printed medicine box , so that the light-dark contrast of the printed packaging label can be increased, so as to improve the accuracy of the subsequent character recognition program. The aforementioned camera module 10011 can be a camera module integrated in a smart phone, and the optical character recognition unit 1002 can also be an application program integrated in a smart phone, or a data processing center located in the cloud.

As for the management program 101 running in the drug storehouse management system 10, the signal is connected to the drug data input device 100 to receive the complete information composed of the drug data 1004 to be updated and the drug information corresponding to the product barcode, Update the data of the drug database 11, and sort the multiple drugs belonging to the same first category according to the date information, so as to prioritize a drug receiving procedure (or a drug withdrawal procedure) The prompt can be displayed to the user for reference through the display unit (such as a mobile phone display or a computer display) 102 .

For example, in the drug database 11 before the data update is completed, there are three drugs belonging to the same first category, and their date information (manufacturing date or expiration date) is 2021/1/15, 2021/5/10 and 2022/1/10, and in the drug database 11 after the data update, the number of drugs belonging to the same first category has increased to four, and their date information (manufacturing date or expiration date) is 2020/12/30, 2021 /1/15, 2021/5/10, and 2022/1/10, multiple medicines are sorted to remind patients of the priority order of the drug collection process (or the process of returning the medicine to the inventory), and through the display The unit (such as a mobile phone display or a computer display) 102 is displayed to the user for reference, so that the first category of 2020/12/30 medicines can be given priority, and the first category of 2022/1/10 medicines can be given priority Back in stock.

To sum up, although the present invention is disclosed above with the embodiments, it is not intended to limit the present invention. Those with ordinary knowledge in the technical field of the present invention can make various changes and modifications without departing from the technical spirit and scope of the present invention. Therefore, the scope of protection of the present invention should be defined by the appended patent claims.

10: Drug storehouse management system 11: Drug database 110, 111, 11n: drug information 100: Drug data input device 101: Management program 1001: image capture unit 1002: Optical Character Recognition Unit 1003: Image data file 1004: Drug information to be updated 102: Display unit 10010: barcode scanner 10011:Camera module 10012:Light box 30: shell 31: lamps 311: upper light source 312: side light source 32: Fixed bracket 33: rack 35: Drug packaging

Figure 1 is a functional block diagram of a drug store management system developed in this case. Fig. 2 is a schematic diagram of internal detailed functional blocks of the image capture unit of this case. Fig. 3 is the internal schematic diagram of the light box of this case.

10: Drug storehouse management system

11: Drug database

110, 111, 11n: drug information

100: Drug data input device

101: Management program

1001: image capture unit

1002: Optical Character Recognition Unit

1003: Image data file

1004: Drug information to be updated

102: Display unit

Claims (6)

A drug storehouse management system, applied to a drug database, in which a plurality of drug data are stored, the drug storehouse management system includes: a drug data input device, which includes an image capture unit and an optical A character recognition unit, the image capture unit is used to convert at least one pattern on a drug package into an image data file, and the optical character recognition unit is used to perform a character recognition process on the image data file to automatically generate Once the drug information is to be updated, the drug information to be updated includes a date information, the image capture unit further scans a product barcode on a drug package, and then obtains a drug information provided by the manufacturer of the drug from the product barcode, The format and type of date information commonly used by the pharmaceutical factory to which the drug belongs are known in advance through the drug information, and the character recognition process performed by the optical character recognition unit refers to the date information commonly used by the pharmaceutical factory to which the drug belongs format and type, for correctly filling numbers into the appropriate date fields, and then automatically and correctly generating the drug data to be updated including the date information; and a management program, signally connected to the drug data input device , used to update the drug database after receiving the drug data to be updated, and sort the multiple drugs belonging to the same first category according to the date information, so as to process a drug receiving procedure or a drug withdrawal The program prompts for priority order. The drug library management system as described in claim 1, wherein the image capture unit includes a barcode scanner and a camera module, wherein the barcode scanner is used to scan the product barcode on the drug packaging, and then obtain the information provided by the drug manufacturer For the drug information, the camera module is used to photograph the package label to form the image data file, and the image data file is automatically generated by the character recognition program performed by the optical character recognition unit to generate the drug data to be updated. Update the drug information to combine with the drug information corresponding to the product barcode to form a complete information. The medicine library management system as described in claim 2, wherein the camera module is integrated in a smart phone, and the optical character recognition unit is an application program installed in the smart phone. The medicine library management system as described in Claim 2, wherein the optical character recognition unit is set in a data processing center in the cloud. The drug store management system as described in claim 1, wherein the image capture unit is further provided with a light box, which includes a housing, a lamp and a fixing bracket, the housing is used to block interference caused by external light, the The fixing bracket is used to fix the medicine packaging to be photographed, and the lamp illuminates the outline of the medicine box text that is not printed with ink, which is used to improve the accuracy of the subsequent character recognition process. The drug library management system as described in Claim 1 further includes a display unit, and the management program makes a priority prompt to be displayed to the user for reference through the display unit.

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