MEDICINE MANAGEMENT METHOD

• US 20110060448A1
• Filed: 03/25/2010
• Published: 03/10/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 03/31/2009
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Panasonic Corporation (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Panasonic Corporation (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: Gotou, Makoto, Tanimoto, Takanobu, Matsukawa, Yoshihiko, Nakamura, Tohru, Takahashi, Rie
• Application Number:
  US12/991,701
• Publication Number:
  US 20110060448A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 700/215
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 20/13 delivered from dispensers

Abstract

A medicine management method includes: a prescription generating step of generating a prescription direction; and a dispensation operation step of making dispensation information regarding dispensation correspond to a medicine container and a prescription code, to update management information of a dispensation managing section. The medicine management method includes a withdrawal operation step of specifying the medicine container that corresponds to a prescription code cancelled in accordance with the management information at the time of a cancellation of the prescription direction in the dispensation operation step, to direct a withdrawal process on the medicine container based upon cancellation information. An accurate medicine withdrawal is performed on the medicine container cancelled.

Claims

1. A medicine management method, comprising:

a prescription generating step of generating a prescription direction which includes a prescription code and dispensation direction information, in a prescription generating section; and

a dispensation operation step of communicating with a dispensation managing section, by sending dispensation information regarding each medicine container dispensed based upon each prescription direction, while making the dispensation information correspond to said medicine container and the prescription code, and updating management information of said dispensation managing section, wherein

said method includes

a withdrawal operation step of specifying said medicine container that corresponds to the prescription code cancelled in accordance with the management information at a time of a cancellation of the prescription direction in said dispensation operation step, and directing a withdrawal process on said medicine container based upon cancellation information.

2. The medicine management method according to claim 1, wherein

said withdrawal operation step has

a cancelled medicine determining step of determining whether or not a medicine in said medicine container cancelled corresponds to a withdrawal medicine, based upon the management information and the cancellation information on said medicine container.

3. The medicine management method according to claim 1, wherein

said withdrawal operation step has

a cancellation presenting step of presenting the cancellation information on said medicine container.

4. The medicine management method according to claim 2, wherein

said withdrawal operation step further has:

a medicine information detecting step of detecting medicine information on said medicine;

said cancelled medicine determining step of determining whether or not each detected medicine corresponds to a withdrawal medicine; and

a medicine withdrawal information presenting step of presenting a withdrawal medicine determination result of said each detected medicine as medicine withdrawal information.

5. The medicine management method according to claim 2, wherein

said cancelled medicine determining step determines whether a medicine in said medicine container cancelled corresponds to a withdrawal medicine, corresponds to a disposal medicine, or corresponds to a non-cancelled medicine, based upon the management information and the cancellation information on said medicine container.

6. The medicine management method according to claim 2, wherein

said cancelled medicine determining step determines whether or not a medicine in said medicine container cancelled corresponds to a withdrawal medicine, from dispensation progress information in the management information on said medicine container, the dispensation progress information indicating a dispensation progress status.

7. The medicine management method according to claim 6, wherein

in a case of a mixture medicine being present in the medicines of said medicine container, said cancelled medicine determining step determines that said mixture medicine corresponds to a withdrawal medicine when the dispensation progress information in the management information on said medicine container indicates pre-mixture.

8. The medicine management method according to claim 6, wherein

in a case of a requiring cool medicine that needs to be kept cool being present in the medicines of said medicine container, said cancelled medicine determining step calculates a normal-temperature operation time as a stay time for said requiring cool medicine after being taken out to a normal-temperature environment, from a medicine procurement time of the dispensation progress information in the management information on said medicine container, and determines that the requiring cool medicine corresponds to a withdrawal medicine when the normal-temperature operation time is shorter than a normal-temperature management time.

9. The medicine management method according to claim 5, wherein

said withdrawal operation step further has

a cancellation authentication recording step of recording cancellation authentication information indicating a cancelled medicine to a withdrawal medicine or a disposal medicine determined in said cancelled medicine determining step.

10. The medicine management method according to claim 9, wherein

a label recorded with the cancellation authentication information is issued in said cancellation authentication recording step.

11. The medicine management method according to claim 2, further comprising

a return operation step of returning a medicine determined as a withdrawal medicine in said withdrawal operation step to a dispensation operating section in which said dispensation operation is performed, wherein

said return operation step has

a return person authenticating step of obtaining operator information of a return person, and returning said medicine to said dispensation operating section when said return person is qualified to return said medicine.

12. The medicine management method according to claim 9, further comprising

a return operation step of returning a medicine determined as a withdrawal medicine in said withdrawal operation step to said dispensation operating section in which the dispensation operation is performed, wherein

said cancellation authentication recording step records the cancellation authentication information including the cancelled medicine code of said withdrawal medicine, while recording the cancelled medicine code into said dispensation managing section, and

said return operation step includes a cancelled medicine checking step of determining whether or not the cancelled medicine code in the cancellation authentication recording information, detected in said dispensation operating section, is recorded in said dispensation managing section, at a time of returning said medicine determined as a withdrawal medicine to said dispensation operating section.

13. The medicine management method according to claim 1, wherein

said dispensation operation step further has:

a medicine supplying step of automatically supplying medicines in a medicine supplying section;

a medicine procuring step of procuring a medicine in a medicine procuring section;

a procurement inspecting step of inspecting the procurement in said medicine procuring section;

a medicine mixing step of mixing medicines in a medicine mixing section; and

a mixture inspecting step of inspecting the mixture in said medicine mixing section,

said medicine supplying step has;

an automatic supply step of automatically supplying medicines into said medicine container in accordance with the prescription direction; and

a supply communicating step of making the ID code of said medicine container and the prescription code of the prescription direction have a corresponding relation to each other, and communicating the corresponding relation and supply information regarding said medicines inserted into said medicine container to said dispensation managing section,

said medicine procuring step has;

a procurement person authenticating step of authenticating a procurement person and making a check by comparing with register information;

a procurement container identifying step of identifying the ID code of said medicine container;

a procurement presenting step of presenting supplementary medicine information on said medicine container, based upon the management information of said dispensation managing section corresponding to the ID code of said medicine container; and

a procurement communicating step of communicating procurement information, including information of said procurement person, to said dispensation managing section, while making the procurement information correspond to the ID code of said medicine container,

said procurement inspecting step has;

a procurement inspector authenticating step of authenticating a procurement inspector and making a check by comparing with register information in said medicine procuring section;

a procurement inspection presenting step of presenting information of a procurement medicine procured in said medicine container corresponding to the ID code of said medicine container; and

a procurement inspection communicating step of communicating procurement inspection information, including procurement inspector information, to said dispensation managing section, while making the procurement inspection information correspond to the ID code of said medicine container,

said medicine mixing step has;

a mixing person authenticating step of authenticating a mixing person and making a check by comparing with register information;

a mixture container identifying step of obtaining the ID code of said medicine container;

a mixture presenting step of presenting mixture medicine information of said medicine container based upon the management information of said dispensation managing section corresponding to the ID code of the medicine container; and

a mixture communicating step of communicating mixture information, including mixing person information, to said dispensation managing section, while making the mixture information correspond to the ID code of said medicine container, and

said mixture inspecting step has;

a mixing inspector authenticating step of authenticating a mixing inspector and making a check by comparing with register information;

a mixture inspection presenting step of presenting mixture inspection medicine information of mixture medicines in said medicine container based upon the management information of said dispensation managing section corresponding to the ID code of said medicine container; and

a mixture inspection communicating step of communicating mixture inspection information, including mixing inspector information, to said dispensation managing section, while making the mixture inspection information correspond to the ID code of said medicine container.