JP2010148899A - Medicine packaging device - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a medicine packaging device where issue information can be input efficiently. <P>SOLUTION: The medicine packaging device which issues medicine selectively and packages it based on issues information where a medicine type and usage are specified according to prescription has an input means, a control means, and a packaging means in the medicine packaging device. The input means has a usage input window and two or more type display windows. The control means memorizes the medicine type as registered medicine preliminarily in response to each type display window. When usage is input in the usage input window and the desired type display window is selected, in response to such input and selection, the control means sends a selected medicine type and input usage as the issues information to the packaging means. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT

Description

  The present invention relates to a medicine packaging device.

  In general, in hospitals, pharmacies, and the like, various powders, tablets, and the like (hereinafter also referred to as drugs) are packaged by a drug packaging device based on a prescription issued by a doctor. For this reason, the medicine packaging apparatus is accompanied by a tablet container that stocks several tens of kinds of tablets, and the tablet container is often stored in a line on a medicine storage shelf.

  An operation for inputting a prescription to the medicine packaging apparatus will be described. For example, for patient X, “(morning: 2 tablets A, 2 tablets B, 2 tablets C) + (daytime: 1 tablet A, 1 tablet B, 1 tablet C) + (evening: Take a case where a prescription indicating the timing of administration and dosage is issued, such as “A tablet 1 tablet, B tablet 0 tablet, C tablet 1 tablet”.

  In accordance with the prescription, a pharmacist, a pharmacist, etc. (hereinafter referred to as an operator) operates the medicine packaging device so that the medicine packaging device automatically dispenses each tablet in the morning, noon, and evening doses. And take out the package every time it is taken.

  In this way, in order to make it easy to dispense a tablet from a tablet container in accordance with the usage indicated in the prescription, there is known a medicine packaging device provided with setting means capable of setting the usage for the specified type of medicine. .

  In such a medicine packaging device, for example, a setting unit comprising a key switch and an input value display device is provided for each shelf position of each tablet storage container on the shelf portion of the medicine storage shelf on which the tablet storage container is mounted. It is provided in a state of letting it. When the operator mounts the tablet container on the shelf portion, the tablet container is connected to the setting means.

  And, for example, 2 tablets in the morning, 2 tablets in the afternoon, 2 tablets in the evening for the tablet container for the A agent, and 1 tablet in the morning, 1 tablet in the morning for the tablet container for the B agent, The dose is input and set by the operator for each tablet container in order from the setting means in the order of 1 tablet at night and 1 tablet in the morning, 0 tablet in the day, and 1 tablet at night. .

  Thus, when the operator inputs a dose according to the dosing timing from the setting means, the tablet container discharges the drug for this dose.

  The operator must input the type and usage of the medicine exactly to the medicine packaging apparatus as instructed by the prescription. In the example of the medicine packaging device described above, since the setting means is provided on the shelf portion below the corresponding tablet storage container, the operator corresponds to the tablet storage container when inputting the usage. The input operation is performed in front of the setting means.

  On the other hand, since the medicine storage containers for the necessary medicines are often scattered in several places on the medicine storage shelves, the operator moves the body from end to end of the medicine storage shelves to each of the tablet storage containers. On the other hand, the numerical value of the dose is often input, and the input operation is extremely complicated.

  This invention is made | formed in view of the situation mentioned above, and makes it a subject to provide the chemical | medical agent packaging apparatus which can input payout information efficiently.

  In order to solve such a problem, the present invention provides an input means in a medicine packaging device that selectively dispenses and packages medicine based on dispensing information in which a medicine type and usage are specified according to prescription, A control means; and a packaging means; the input means comprises a usage input window and a plurality of type display windows; and the control means associates the drug types with various display windows and registers them in advance as registered drugs. And when a usage is input in the usage input window and a desired type display window is selected, the control means receives the input and selection, and the control means Is sent to the packaging means as dispensing information.

  According to this invention, the operator can pay out the medicine associated with the selected type display window by the input usage by inputting the usage and selecting the type display window. is there.

  That is, it is possible to perform the input of usage and the selection of the medicine type in the input means at a time without moving the body from end to end of the medicine storage shelf as in the prior art, and the work efficiency can be improved.

  Preferably, the control means stores a medicine other than the registered medicine in advance as a handmade medicine in association with one of the type display windows, and when the one type display window is selected, the control means In response to the selection, the packaging means is controlled so as to package the handmade medicine by hand.

  According to this invention, the said control means can control a packaging means so that the prescription containing medicines other than a registration medicine may be performed by packaging by hand.

  Therefore, the control means can control the packaging means even for a prescription containing a medicine other than the registered medicine, so that the operator selects the contents of the prescription for the presence or absence of the medicine other than the registered medicine and sets the processing order. There is no need to

  Preferably, when a usage is input to the usage input window and another type display window is selected after the type display window has been selected, the control means selects the drug type of the other type display window. And the same usage as the above-mentioned usage is sent to the packaging means as medicine dispensing information in the other type display window.

  According to this invention, for another medicine to which the same usage as the usage entered in the usage input window is applied, the operator simply selects the other medicine type display window and selects the other medicine. On the other hand, the same usage as the above usage is automatically input.

  Therefore, the number of times the operator inputs the same usage can be reduced, thereby further improving the work efficiency.

  Preferably, the control means controls the packaging means so that the prescription including only the registered medicine precedes the prescription for which the handmade medicine is selected.

  According to this invention, since the control means precedes the prescription containing only the registered medicine before the prescription containing the handmade medicine, the prescription containing the handmade medicine is gradually postponed.

  Therefore, the operator can collectively prepare hand-packed medicine packaging later, and the work efficiency is improved.

  ADVANTAGE OF THE INVENTION According to this invention, the medicine packaging apparatus which can input payout information efficiently can be provided. In other words, the operator can input the usage and select the medicine type in the input means without moving the body from end to end of the medicine storage shelf as in the prior art, so that the efficiency of the input work can be improved. .

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS The schematic block diagram of the chemical | medical agent packaging apparatus which concerns on one embodiment of this invention. The schematic block diagram which shows the display screen which concerns on one embodiment of this invention. 1 is a schematic perspective view of a medicine packaging device according to an embodiment of the present invention. The flowchart which shows operation | movement of the input and selection which concerns on this invention, and a chemical | medical agent packaging apparatus.

  Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described with reference to the accompanying drawings.

Embodiment 1
FIG. 1 is a schematic configuration diagram of a medicine packaging device according to an embodiment of the present invention. In FIG. 1, 10 is an input means, 11 is a usage input window, 12 is a type display window, 20 is a control device, and 30 is a packaging means.

  The medicine packaging apparatus includes an input unit 10, a control unit 20, and a packaging unit 30. The input means 10 includes a usage input window 11 and a plurality of type display windows 12. The input means 10 is connected to the control means 20, and when the medicine type is selected and the usage is input in the input means 10, the selection and input are sent to the control means 20.

  The control means 20 is connected to the packaging means 30 and sends dispensing information or the like to the packaging means 30 so as to selectively dispense the medicine for packaging.

  Details of each component will be described below. FIG. 2 is an example of a display screen as an example of input means, and FIG. 3 is an overall schematic perspective view of an example of a medicine packaging device. Descriptions of parts common to the conventional example, such as the packaging means, are simplified or omitted.

  The input means 10 includes a usage input window 11 and a plurality of type display windows 12. The input means 10 can be realized by a display screen configured so that an operator can perform input and selection.

  That is, various windows (hereinafter, windows not directly related to the present invention may be referred to as columns) are provided in the screen display, and numerical values and the like are displayed on the windows, and the display contents of the windows are directly transferred to the control means 20. The display screen and the control means can be configured so that the input can be made (for example, by providing a button “determine” and pressing this button).

  FIG. 2 shows an example of the display screen. In the usage input window 11, for example, in the upper display field 21, the timing of taking medication such as morning, noon, and evening is displayed in order from the left. A usage input window 11 can be provided in correspondence with the dosing timing display field 21. In this example, the usage input window 11 can be divided and provided corresponding to the dosing timing as shown. Therefore, the order of the numerical values input to the usage input window 11 indicates the order of dosing timing.

  In addition, the display screen can be provided with a display field for displaying desired contents such as patient information and ward information. In this case, for example, patient information is input for each prescription from a keyboard and displayed. It can be displayed on the screen.

  Further, the display screen includes, for example, a pattern 24 (for example, morning, noon, evening) that requires the number of doses from the column 24 in which the number of doses per day can be input and the number of doses (for example, four times). , Before bedtime) may be provided with a column (not shown) for automatically displaying some. In this case, when the operator inputs the number of doses, the operator can select a desired pattern from several patterns of the number of doses and automatically display the dose timing in the dose timing display column 21.

  In this way, as shown in FIG. 2, the usage input window 11 can clearly show that the dosage is, for example, one tablet each in the morning, noon, and evening. The buttons 22a and 22b on the left and right of the usage input window 11 can be provided on the display screen as, for example, a dose change instruction icon, and the button 22a (minus the dose) or 22b (plus the dose) with the mouse. The dose value can be changed by an operation such as clicking.

  The type display window 12 displays medicines targeted by the medicine packaging device for each medicine type. It may be a medicine name or a code. The type display window 12 can be provided, for example, in correspondence with the alignment position where the medicine storage shelf 32 includes a plurality of medicine storage containers 31.

  In order to make the type display window 12 correspond to the position of the medicine container on the medicine storage shelf, the medicine container 31 is provided with, for example, magnetic information and the control means 20 recognizes the magnetic information and identifies the medicine type. It can be configured to be able to. Then, as will be described later, the control means 20 stores the medicine type in advance as a registered medicine in association with the type display window 12.

  Then, when a certain window is selected by, for example, an operator clicking the classification display window 12 with a mouse, the usage input window 11 is used as a medicine usage of the classification display window 12. The setting value is applied.

  For example, an individual usage display field 23 can be provided adjacent to the type display window 12 below the type display window 12. When a type display window 12 is selected, the type input window 11 is input. The input means 10 can be configured such that the usage is automatically displayed in the individual usage display field 23.

  The display screen having such a configuration can be configured using a liquid crystal display device or a CRT display device by a well-known technique.

  The control means 20 stores the medicine type in association with the type display window 12 in advance as a registered medicine, and further, as described above, the usage is input in the usage input window 11, and the type display window 12 is displayed. When selected, the control means 20 is configured to receive the input and selection, and send the selected medicine type and the inputted usage to the packaging means 30 as the medicine payout information. .

  Note that the control means 20 can temporarily store the payout information for each prescription. The control means 20 can also be configured to store the previous prescription content for each patient. In this case, only the changes from the previous time need be corrected.

  For example, as shown in FIG. 3, the packaging means 30 can include a medicine storage container 31, a medicine storage shelf 32, a medicine packaging mechanism 33, and the like, and is based on dispensing information and control signals from the control means 20. The medicine can be selectively dispensed and packaged.

  As described above, in this medicine packaging apparatus, the input means 10 is configured to be provided with a plurality of type display windows so that the plurality of type display windows can be selected. By performing the input and the selection of the type display window, it is possible to pay out the medicine associated with the selected type display window by the input usage.

  In other words, the operator can input the usage and select the medicine type at the same time without moving the body from end to end of the medicine storage shelf as in the past, and the work efficiency can be improved. It is.

Embodiment 2
In the present embodiment, the control means 20 stores in advance a medicine other than the registered medicine in association with one of the type display windows 12 as “handmade medicine”, and this one type display window 12 is selected. In this case, the medicine packaging apparatus is configured such that the control means 20 receives the selection and controls the packaging means 30 so as to manually package the medicines other than the registered medicine. Other configurations are the same as those of the first embodiment.

  In this way, the control means 20 can send a prescription containing a medicine other than the registered medicine to the packaging means 30 as payout information for hand-packaging. However, the payout information can be set using the input means 10 and sent to the packaging means 30. Therefore, there is an advantage that it is not necessary for the operator to sort the contents of the prescription with respect to the presence or absence of other than the registered medicine in order to rank the processing (for example, to postpone the handling). In this case, the payout information may not include the usage setting.

  In the case of the present embodiment, it is more preferable that the control unit 20 includes a form issuing unit and a form reading unit (both not shown), and the control unit 20 prepares “handing medicine”. The form issuing means issues a form prompting the operator (for example, the product name and quantity are described), and after the operator prepares the hand-made medicine, the form is read by the form reading means and input to the control means 20 Then, the control means 20 can be configured to cause the packaging means 30 to perform the prescription including the hand-made medicine, for example, following the prescription currently in progress.

  As with the hand-made medicine, the control means 20 further stores the granular powder as “powder A” in one of the type display windows 12, and when the window 12 is selected, the control means 20 20 can also be configured to control the packaging means 30 such that the control means 20 packages powder A.

Embodiment 3
In the present embodiment, a usage (for example, usage A) is input to the usage input window 11 and another type display window (for example, 12x) is selected as shown in FIG. When the type display window (for example, 12y) is selected, the control means 20 displays the drug type in the other type display window 12y and the same usage as the usage A in the other type display window 12y. The control means 20 is configured to send the medicine delivery information to the packaging means 30.

  As described above, for other medicines to which the same usage as the usage A input to the usage input window 11 is applied, the operator only selects the other medicine type display window (for example, 12y). The same usage as the usage A is set. Therefore, this embodiment can reduce the number of times the operator inputs the same usage, so that the efficiency of the input work is further improved as compared with the case of the first embodiment.

Embodiment 4
In the present embodiment, the control means 20 causes the packaging means 30 to package the packaging means 30 so that the prescription including only the registered medicine precedes the prescription for which the handmade medicine is selected. The control means 20 was configured to control.

  According to such a configuration, since the control means 20 precedes the prescription containing only the registered medicine before the prescription containing the handmade medicine, the prescription containing the handmade medicine gradually follows, and the operator prescribes the prescription containing the handmade medicine. This is advantageous in that work efficiency can be improved.

  Hereinafter, the operation method of the dispensing information setting of the medicine packaging apparatus having the first to fourth embodiments and the operation of the medicine packaging apparatus related to the method will be described. FIG. 4 shows the flowchart.

  First, after confirming the content of the prescription (step 101), the operator displays morning, noon, evening, etc. in the dosing timing display column 21 of the display screen (step 102). After that, the operator inputs the dosage of the usage into the usage input window 11 (step 103), and then selects the desired medicine type display window 12 to which the usage is applied with a mouse or the like (step 104). After confirming the input contents, the operator inputs confirmation (step 105).

  In this way, the operator inputs the usage and selects the medicine type, and the input / selection contents are sent to the control means 20 as the payout information of the selected medicine. In steps 101 to 104 so far, if there is another prescription to be processed by the medicine packaging device, the operator continuously inputs the usage for the other prescription / selects the medicine type, and the control means 20 The payout information can be temporarily stored for each prescription.

  Next, when the handout medicine (and / or powdered medicine) is included in the dispensing information (step 106), the control means 20 issues a form for prompting the preparation of the handmade medicine (step 110), and the operator performs the handwork. Preparation of chemicals is performed (step 111). Step 112 is executed every predetermined time after step 110. If there is no form reading, the control means controls the packaging means 30 so that the prescription of only the registered medicine is preceded and packaged (step 107). The packaging means 30 selectively dispenses the medicine according to the delivery information and packages it.

  In addition, after the operator prepares the hand-made medicine, when the form is read and input by the reading means (step 111), the control means 20 determines whether or not the packaging means 30 is being packaged (step 113). Then, for example, if the packaging is in progress, the next prescription is performed. If the packaging is not in progress, the packaging means 30 is controlled to execute the pre-handling prescription (step 114). If any of the prescriptions remain, the other prescriptions are processed (after step 105).

  DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 10 ... Input means, 11 ... Usage input window, 12 ... Type display window, 20 ... Control means, 30 ... Packaging means, 31 ... Drug container

Claims (4)

In a medicine packaging device that selectively dispenses and packages medicine based on dispensing information in which a medicine type and usage are specified according to prescription,
An input means, a control means, and a packaging means;
The input means includes a usage input window and a plurality of type display windows,
The control means stores the medicine type in advance as a registered medicine in association with each type of display window,
When a usage is input in the usage input window and a desired type display window is selected, the control means receives the input and selection, and the control means uses the selected drug type and the input usage as the payout information. A medicine packaging apparatus, wherein the medicine packaging apparatus is sent to a packaging means.   The control means stores a medicine other than the registered medicine in advance as a hand-made medicine in association with one of the type display windows, and when the one type display window is selected, the control means performs the selection. The medicine packaging apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the medicine packaging device is controlled so as to receive and hand-wrap the hand-made medicine.   When a usage is input to the usage input window and the type display window is selected and then another type display window is selected, the control means includes the drug type of the other type display window, The medicine packaging apparatus according to claim 1 or 2, wherein the same usage as the usage is sent to the packaging means as medicine dispensing information in the other type display window.   3. The medicine packaging apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the control means controls the packaging means so that the prescription including only the registered medicine precedes the prescription for which the handmade medicine is selected.

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