Medication support system

A medication support system comprising:

• a medicine dispensing apparatus including
• a container to store a plurality of medicine packs to each of which medication-related information including a name of a patient who takes a medicine and a time of medication is added,
• a medicine dispensing tray to which medicine dispensing data including information about at least one of the plurality of medicine packs to be dispensed is added,
• a conveying device to pick up one of the plurality of medicine packs from the container and convey the picked-up one of the plurality of medicine packs to a specific destination in the medicine dispensing tray, and
• a pack data reader to read the medication-related information added to the plurality of medicine packs or the container and the medicine dispensing data added to the medicine dispensing tray and including information about the at least one of the plurality of medicine packs to be dispensed;
• and
• an external medicine-dispensing control system to manage the medicine dispensing apparatus, the external medicine-dispensing control system including processing circuitry configured to
• identify the specific destination of the picked-up one of the plurality of medicine packs in the medicine dispensing tray based on the medication-related information of the medicine pack and the medicine dispensing data added to the medicine dispensing tray, and
• change the medicine dispensing data of the specific destination.