Mixed injection inspection system

• US 8,073,238 B2
• Filed: 03/01/2007
• Issued: 12/06/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 03/03/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Yuyama Manufacturing Company Limited
• Original Assignee: Yuyama Manufacturing Company Limited
• Inventors: Nakanishi, Hirokazu, Yuyama, Hiroyuki, Goto, Satoshi
• Primary Examiner(s): Geisel, Kara E
• Application Number:
  US12/281,612
• Publication Number:
  US 20090161941A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,741 Days
• Field of Search: 385/141, 700/216, 700/236, 700/239, 700/244, 705 2- 3
• US Class Current: 382/141
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/00 Administration; Management
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 20/17 delivered via infusion or injection

Abstract

Provided is a system for reducing burden on an inspector by making it possible to evaluate the operation of a mixed injection worker which is difficult to evaluate numerically at a place remote from the mixed injection work place. Provided is a mixed injection inspection system for inspecting a mixed injection work for mixing an injection drug by an inspector different from a mixed injection worker, the mixed injection inspection system including: a mixed injection work photographing device provided in a mixed injection work place and used to photograph the mixed injection work; an inspector side mixed injection work monitor provided in a place remote from the mixed injection work place and used to display the mixed injection work photographed by the mixed injection work photographing device; an inspector side input device provided in a place remote from the mixed injection work place and used to input instructions for the worker working at the mixed injection work place; and a mixed injection worker side display means for displaying to the mixed injection worker what has been input by the inspector side input device.

Claims

1. An inspection system for remotely inspecting preparation of a drug at a mixing site, the inspection system comprising:

an imaging device provided at the mixing site, the imaging device configured to record an image associated with preparation of the drug;

a monitor provided at a location remote from the mixing site, the monitor configured to display the image recorded by the imaging device;

an input device associated with the monitor, the input device configured to input instructions for a worker working at the mixing site; and

a display located at the mixing site, the display configured to display the instructions input at the input device,

wherein the mixing site comprises a safety cabinet, and

wherein the imaging device is located within the safety cabinet.

2. The inspection system of claim 1, further comprising:

a server storing information about a medicine for use in preparation of the drug; and

an information monitor provided at the mixing site, the information monitor being connected to the server to display the information.

3. The inspection system of claim 2, wherein a single display serves as both the information monitor and the display.

4. The inspection system of claim 1, wherein the monitor displays a plurality of images from the imaging device.

5. The inspection system of claim 4, wherein the monitor enables an inspector to select for display an image from amongst the plurality of images.

6. The inspection system of claim 4, wherein the monitor displays the plurality of images responsive to a request input using an input device associated with the display at the mixing site.

7. The inspection system of claim 5, wherein the monitor enables the display to display selected images from amongst the plurality of images responsive to a request input using an input device associated with the display at the mixing site.

8. The inspection system of claim 1, wherein the monitor is further configured to display images sent from imaging devices located at a plurality of remote mixing sites.

9. The inspection system of claim 1, further comprising:

an image acquisition button provided at the mixing site,

wherein, responsive to the worker depressing the image acquisition button, the imaging device records an image of a syringe used in preparation of the drug.

10. The inspection system of claim 1, wherein the drug comprises a liquid medicine mixed with an infusion solution.

11. The inspection system of claim 10, wherein a first barcode is affixed to a surface of a container containing the liquid medicine and a second barcode is affixed to a surface of a container containing the infusion solution, the inspection system further comprising a programmed routine that determines whether the liquid medicine properly may be combined with the infusion solution based on the first and second barcodes.

12. The inspection system of claim 1, wherein the imaging device comprises a CCD.

14. The inspection system of claim 1, wherein the monitor and the display both display at least some common data.

15. The inspection system of claim 1, wherein the imaging device is configured to obtain moving images or still images.

16. The inspection system of claim 1, wherein the input device comprises a microphone.

17. The inspection system of claim 2, wherein the server stores at least one image associated with preparation of the drug.

18. The inspection system of claim 8, wherein, at a given time, the monitor displays images received from only a selected one of the plurality of mixing sites.

13. An inspection system for remotely inspecting preparation of a drug at a mixing site, the inspection system comprising:

an imaging device provided at the mixing site, the imaging device configured to record an image associated with preparation of the drug;

a monitor provided at a location remote from the mixing site, the monitor configured to display the image recorded by the imaging device;

an input device associated with the monitor, the input device configured to input instructions for a worker working at the mixing site; and

a display located at the mixing site, the display configured to display the instructions input at the input device,

wherein the mixing site comprises a safety cabinet, and

wherein the display comprises a liquid crystal display disposed within the safety cabinet.

19. An inspection system for remotely inspecting preparation of a drug at a mixing site, the inspection system comprising:

an imaging device provided at the mixing site, the imaging device configured to record an image associated with preparation of the drug;

a monitor provided at a location remote from the mixing site, the monitor configured to display the image recorded by the imaging device;

an input device associated with the monitor, the input device configured to input instructions for a worker working at the mixing site; and

a display located at the mixing site, the display configured to display the instructions input at the input device,

wherein the mixing site comprises a clean bench, and

wherein the imaging device is located within the clean bench.