Checking apparatus and medication support apparatus

Abstract

A checking apparatus includes circuitry to check a relation between a medicine placement unit and one of a container and a medicine package stored in the container, obtain comparison data, compare the comparison data with first data read by a first data reader from a first data retaining medium disposed on the one of the container and the medicine package and second data read by a second data reader from a second data retaining medium disposed on the medicine placement unit, and output a result of comparison performed between the comparison data and each one of the first data and the second data.

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