Pharmaceutical management system

A pharmaceutical management system comprising:

• at least one pharmaceutical storage box to store at least one pharmaceutical having corresponding at least one IC tag attached thereto;
• a reading device to read information stored in the IC tag, the information representing the pharmaceutical;
• a controller to obtain the information of the IC tag from the reading device, to manage the pharmaceutical;
• and
• a pharmaceutical refrigerator to store the pharmaceutical storage box to refrigerate the pharmaceutical,
• the controller comprising:
• a first entry/exit monitoring unit to monitor entry/exit of the pharmaceutical into/from the pharmaceutical storage box by obtaining the information of the IC tag, during a first period, in response to open/close information indicating that a door of the pharmaceutical refrigerator has been closed from an open state;
• and
• a second entry/exit monitoring unit to monitor entry/exit of the pharmaceutical into/from the pharmaceutical storage box by obtaining the information of the IC tag, during a second period, after monitoring by the first entry/exit monitoring unit, and wherein
• a state of entry of the pharmaceutical into the pharmaceutical storage box is determined based on a result of monitoring by the second entry/exit monitoring unit,
• wherein when at least part of the information of the IC tag that has been obtained by the first entry/exit monitoring unit cannot be obtained continuously for a predetermined time period within the second period, in the monitoring by the second entry/exit monitoring unit, the controller determines a state of entry of the pharmaceutical into the pharmaceutical storage box, assuming that the IC tag corresponding to the at least part thereof is faulty or the pharmaceutical corresponding to the at least part thereof has been carried out.