US 2002/0163435 A1 · Drug administering system and administering method

Abstract

For preventing medication mistake by checking kinds and doses of pharmaceuticals, coincidence of patient, and so on, when a doctor forms a clinical chart, when a pharmacist prepares the pharmaceuticals following the clinical chart or when the prepared pharmaceuticals are medicated to the patient, a patient barcode (A) and barcodes (2) shoeing the kinds and doses of the pharmaceuticals to be medicated are affixed on the clinical chart (1); when the pharmacist prepares the pharmaceuticals, the barcodes (A,2) and barcodes (6) provided on a receptacle (4) or a package (5) of the pharmaceuticals are red by a barcode reader (31); and contents of them are compared by accessing a database in a server 10 by a second terminal equipment (30). Furthermore, a patient barcode (B) provided in the vicinity of a bed of an inpatient (7) is read by a portable terminal equipment (40); the patient barcodes (A) and (B) are compared to be judged whether the patients coincide or not.

Claims24

Dependent claims

A medication system of pharmaceuticals comprising:

a database for memorizing kinds of pharmaceuticals and information with respect to each pharmaceutical;
a first recognition means connected to the database and for recognizing at least the kind and dose of a pharmaceutical from a distinguishing mark provided on a receptacle or a package of each pharmaceutical;
a second recognition means connected to the database and for recognizing at least the kind and dose of pharmaceutical from a distinguishing mark provided on a prescription or a clinical chart;
a comparison means for comparing the kinds and doses of the pharmaceuticals recognized by the first recognition means with those recognized by the second recognition means;
and
an alarm means for outputting an alarm when at least one of the kinds and the doses of pharmaceuticals does not coincide in a result of the comparison by the comparison means.

3 more elements

A medication system of pharmaceuticals comprising:

a first database for memorizing kinds of pharmaceuticals and information with respect to each pharmaceutical;
a second database for memorizing prescriptions or clinical charts on which information with respect to kinds and doses of pharmaceuticals medicated to patients are electronically recorded;
a first recognition means connected to the first database and for recognizing at least the kind and dose of a pharmaceutical from a distinguishing mark provided on a receptacle or a package of each pharmaceutical;
a clinical chart reading means connected to the second database, for accessing the second database based on an information for identifying a patient and for reading an inherent electronic prescription or clinical chart of the patient;
a second recognition means for recognizing at least the kind and dose of pharmaceutical from the electronic prescription or clinical chart;
a comparison means for comparing the kinds and doses of the pharmaceuticals recognized by the first recognition means with those recognized by the second recognition means;
and
an alarm means for outputting an alarm when at least one of the kinds and the doses of pharmaceuticals does not coincide in a result of the comparison by the comparison means.

5 more elements

A medication method of pharmaceuticals characterized by including the steps of:

memorizing kinds of pharmaceuticals and information with respect to each pharmaceutical in a database;
providing a distinguishing mark corresponding to the kind and a dose of each pharmaceutical on a receptacle or a package thereof;
providing a distinguishing mark corresponding to kinds and doses of pharmaceuticals described on a prescription or a clinical chart to the prescription or clinical chart;
reading the distinguishing mark provided on the prescription or clinical chat by using a recognition apparatus when pharmaceuticals to be medicated to a patient are prepared by following the description of the prescription or clinical chart;
reading the distinguishing mark provided on the receptacle or package of the prepared pharmaceuticals by using the recognition apparatus;
comparing whether at least the kinds and doses of the prepared pharmaceuticals coincide with those described on the prescription or clinical chart or not from the information recorded in the database by using the read distinguishing marks;
and
medicating the prepared pharmaceuticals to the patient after confirming the kinds and doses of the pharmaceuticals are coincided.