Medication support apparatus and medication support system

A medication support system, comprising:

• a medication support apparatus including,
• a storage configured to store a medicine pack with first medication-related information, the stored medicine pack including medicine, the first medication-related information indicating at least a name of a recipient who is to take the medicine in the stored medicine pack, a type and number of tablets of the medicine prescribed in the stored medicine pack, and a timing of medication of the medicine in the stored medicine pack,
• a medicine delivery part in which the stored medicine pack is to be arranged at a specific position,
• an extraction device configured to extract the stored medicine pack from the storage,
• a transfer device configured to transfer the extracted medicine pack from the storage to the specific position in the medicine delivery part,
• a pack information reader configured to read the first medication-related information by capturing an image of the extracted medicine pack before the transfer device transfers the extracted medicine pack from the storage to the specific position in the medicine delivery part, and
• processing circuitry configured to:
• manage second medication-related information of the medicine pack to be arranged at the specific position in the medicine delivery part, the second medication-related information indicating at least a name of a recipient who is to take medicine in the medicine pack to be arranged at the specific position in the medicine delivery part, a type and number of tablets of the medicine prescribed in the medicine pack to be arranged at the specific position in the medicine delivery part, and a timing of medication to be arranged at the specific position in the medicine delivery part, and
• compare the first medication-related information read by the pack information reader with the second medication-related information to determine whether the first medication-related information matches the second medication-related information;
• an information communication terminal;
• and
• an information communication device configured to perform communication between the medication support apparatus and the information communication terminal via a network,
• wherein the processing circuitry is configured to cause the information communication device to transmit at least one of detection information indicating that the extracted medicine pack from the storage is a wrong pack or information indicating that medicine delivery processing of the medicine pack to the medicine delivery part has failed, to the information communication terminal.