Dispensary management system and method

A dispensary management method using a dispensary management system comprising a medicine compounding information server, a database server, a medicine compounding management unit, and a medicine storage management unit, the dispensary management method comprising:

• inputting medicine compounding information to the medicine compounding information server;
• determining whether medicines are insufficient based on the medicine compounding information using an automatic medicine compounding apparatus;
• retrieving a cabinet storing medicines corresponding to the insufficient medicines using the database server upon determining that the medicines are insufficient;
• resetting the quantity of the medicines upon filling of the automatic medicine compounding apparatus with medicines corresponding to the insufficient medicines;
• compounding medicines using the automatic medicine compounding apparatus according to the medicine compounding information, authenticating a user who inputs the medicine compounding information, wherein the step of authenticating the user who inputs the medicine compounding information is performed before the step of inputting the medicine compounding information,
• displaying whether the automatic medicine compounding apparatus is normally operating in a standby mode, wherein the step of displaying whether the automatic medicine compounding apparatus is normally operating in the standby mode is performed before the step of authenticating the user who inputs the medicine compounding information,
• wherein the step of retrieving the master cabinet for managing the medicines corresponding to the insufficient medicines comprises:
• inputting medicine compounding information or medicine information;
• retrieving a medicine cassette corresponding to the medicine compounding information or medicine information;
• and
• selecting the retrieved medicine cassette, and
• wherein the step of retrieving the medicine cassette corresponding to the medicine compounding information or the medicine information comprises arranging the medicine cassettes in order of the medicine cassette information based on the available periods of the medicines upon determining that a plurality of pieces of the retrieved medicine cassette information is present.