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System for supporting medicine filling operation

  • US 8,494,870 B2
  • Filed: 03/29/2006
  • Issued: 07/23/2013
  • Est. Priority Date: 03/30/2005
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. A system for resupplying a supply cassette with medicine from a supply package, the supply cassette supplying a medicine packaging operation, comprising:

  • a plurality of handheld terminals, each including an input section adapted to accept medicine identification information and supply cassette information for alternatively inputting one of medicine identification information for identification of the medicine within the supply package and supply cassette information for identification of the supply cassette on which the supply package is to be mounted, each handheld terminal further comprising a display section, a communication section, and an image reading section, and;

    a server including;

    a storage device for storing a medicine master composed of medicine information associated with the medicine identification information, a mounting master composed of supply cassette information associated with the supply cassette identification information, an exchange table for associating the medicine information and the supply cassette information with each other, and an image master composed of image information concerning the medicine;

    a communication device adapted to receive the medicine identification information and the supply cassette information for alternatively receiving one of the medicine identification information and the supply cassette identification information inputted with the input section of one of the plurality of handheld terminals via the communication section; and

    a control device for judging whether the medicine within the supply package and the supply cassette on which the supply cassette is to be mounted correspond to each other based on one of the medicine identification information and the supply cassette identification information received by the communication device and based on the medicine master, the mounting master, and the exchange table stored in the storage device,wherein the image reading section receives the image information stored in the storage device via the communication section and the communication device and enables display thereof on the display section under a state where the medicine information is displayed on the display section,wherein the storage device stores the exchange table in which one medicine is associated with a plurality of supply cassettes,wherein, when one of the medicine identification information and the supply cassette identification information is received by the communication device, the control device is configured to read one of the medicine identification information based on the medicine master and the supply cassette identification information based on the mounting master stored in the storage device, and to read the other of the corresponding medicine identification information and the supply cassette identification information from the exchange table, andwherein the display section of the handheld terminal is adapted to display the medicine information and the supply cassette information read by the control device and received via the communication device and the communication section.

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