JP2009100885A - Medicine dosage information management system - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a medicine dosage information management system by which a patient himself/herself can obtain and confirm medicine information, and whether or not the patient takes a medicine at the time determined by a doctor can be confirmed. <P>SOLUTION: The medicine dosage information management system is composed of: a medicine package to which a non-contact IC tag is attached; and a radio communication terminal for the patient and a radio communication terminal for the doctor. The non-contact IC tag is provided with a storage part storing the ID information and medicine explanation information of the medicine and a communication part. The radio communication terminal for the patient is provided with a communication part for receiving the ID information and the medicine explanation information from the non-contact IC tag and transmitting the ID information to the radio communication terminal for the doctor, a timing part, an input part, a display part, and a storage part for storing the received ID information as the information of the medicine that is already taken. The radio communication terminal for the doctor is provided with a storage part storing medication schedule information, a means for storing the received ID information in the storage part as medicine dosage history information, a means for collating the medication schedule information and the medicine dosage history information, and a display part for displaying a collated result. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT

Description

  The present invention makes it easy for the patient himself to obtain drug information about the drug he / she intends to take, and confirms that there is no mistake before taking the drug. The present invention relates to a drug administration information management system that enables a patient to confirm whether a patient has taken a predetermined drug at a date and time determined by a doctor.

In recent years, with the increase in the number of elderly people, there are an increasing number of elderly patients who receive medical examinations or are admitted to medical institutions.
Usually, the doctor who examined the patient decides which drug to take according to the patient's illness, and for example, what amount and what amount of the drug is taken before, during or after the morning, noon, evening. In many cases, a prescription is written for each day and given to the patient, or the nurse is instructed to take medication to the hospitalized patient.

  Conventionally, as a system for medical management and drug information management, information on medicines to be taken is recorded on an IC card, and medicines are placed in a medicine box for management, or barcode information attached to medicine packages, etc. Reading, inquiring of the drug management server to check drug information, and storing the medication history in the server, and also taking medication, the interaction between the medication you are taking and the medication you are currently taking There are known systems that automatically determine whether or not there are duplicate doses. (For example, see Patent Documents 1 to 3)

JP 2005-204685 A JP 2002-207826 JP2007-514207A

However, if there are many types of medications to be taken, or if the types of medications to be taken are different at the date and time when they are taken, such as morning, noon, evening, etc., they should be determined correctly as instructed by the doctor. You may not be able to take the medicines you have taken.
Especially for elderly people, even if they have already taken it, they forget to take it and take the same medicine twice, or accidentally take another kind of medicine. There is a problem that it can be considered.

  In addition, the doctor who has seen the doctor has forgotten to take the medicine that he / she has prescribed because he / she can not confirm whether the patient is taking the medicine exactly as he / she is taking it correctly. Nevertheless, there is a problem that there is a risk of misjudgment of future medical practice if the patient himself believes that he has taken it as prescribed.

  Therefore, the present invention makes it possible for the patient himself / herself to easily obtain the drug information about the drug that the patient intends to take and confirm whether there is a mistake before taking the medicine. Provided is a medicine administration information management system that enables a patient to confirm whether a prescribed medicine has been taken at a date and time determined by a doctor.

  The drug dosage information management system of the present invention is a drug dosage information management system comprising a drug packaging with a non-contact IC tag and a patient wireless communication terminal carried by a patient, wherein the non-contact IC tag is: A storage unit that stores ID information and drug description information of the drug contained in the drug package; and a communication unit that communicates with the patient wireless communication terminal. The patient wireless communication terminal is taken by a patient A storage unit in which medication schedule information related to a prescription drug to be stored is stored; a communication unit that receives the ID information from the non-contact IC tag; a time measuring unit that measures date; an input unit that inputs instruction information; The display unit for displaying the drug explanation information received from the contact IC tag, the ID information received from the non-contact IC tag, and the ID information registered in the medication schedule information are collated, Who drugs to be taken, characterized in that it comprises a means for determining whether or not it is registered in the dosing schedule information as a drug to be administered.

  The drug dosage information management system of the present invention is a drug dosage information comprising a drug packaging with a non-contact IC tag, a patient wireless communication terminal carried by a patient, and a doctor wireless communication terminal carried by a doctor. In the management system, the non-contact IC tag includes a storage unit that stores ID information and drug description information of a drug contained in the drug package, the patient wireless communication terminal, and the doctor wireless communication terminal. The wireless communication terminal for patients receives ID information and drug description information from a non-contact IC tag attached to a package of the medicine taken by the patient, and the wireless communication for doctor A communication unit that transmits the ID information to the terminal, a time measuring unit that measures date and time, an input unit that inputs instruction information, a display unit that displays drug description information received from the non-contact IC tag, Non-contact A storage unit for storing ID information received from the IC tag as taken medicine information together with date and time information when the patient took the medicine, and the wireless communication terminal for doctors is used by the patient to treat the patient. A storage unit storing medication schedule information related to a medicine to be taken; means for storing the ID information received from the patient wireless communication terminal in the storage unit as medication medication history information of the patient; and the medication schedule information; It is characterized by comprising means for collating the medicine taking history information, and a display unit for displaying the result of the collation.

  The drug administration information management system of the present invention makes it easy for the patient himself to obtain drug information about the drug he / she intends to take and confirms that there is no mistake as a drug prescribed by a doctor before taking the drug. There is an effect that can be.

  In addition, the medication administration information management system of the present invention enables the patient to confirm whether or not the patient has taken the prescribed medication at the date and time prescribed by the physician for the medication to be taken by the patient as a prescription. The information can be used as a reference for subsequent treatment methods.

Hereinafter, a medication information management system according to an embodiment of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the drawings.
FIG. 1 shows the relationship between a medicine package 2 with a non-contact IC tag 1 and a patient wireless communication terminal 3a carried by a patient in the medicine administration information management system according to the embodiment. These are block diagrams showing the system configuration of the patient wireless communication terminal 3a and the non-contact IC tag 1.
The medicine packaging 2 referred to here refers to a container containing various kinds of shapes such as a bag, a bottle, a container, and a package containing one kind of medicine.
And the non-contact IC tag 1 is affixed to the predetermined part of these medicine packagings 2, respectively.

As shown in FIG. 2, the non-contact IC tag 1 includes a storage unit 4, a communication unit 5, and a control unit 6.
And in the memory | storage part 4, as shown in FIG. 4, ID information which can specify the chemical | medical agent contained in the chemical | medical agent packaging 2, and chemical | medical agent description information 14 such as a name regarding the chemical | medical agent, efficacy, and notes Is remembered.
The communication unit 5 has a function of communicating with the patient wireless communication terminal 3a, receives the instruction signal transmitted from the patient wireless communication terminal 3a, and stores the ID information and medicine stored in the storage unit 4 The explanatory information is transmitted to the patient wireless communication terminal 3a.

The patient wireless communication terminal 3 a includes a storage unit 7, an input unit 8, a communication unit 9, a time measuring unit 10, a display unit 11 including a display, and a control unit 12.
When the patient who is the user wants to confirm the medicine to be taken, the confirmation instruction signal is attached to the medicine packaging 2 by pressing the medicine confirmation instruction key from the input unit 8. Before sending the contact IC tag 1, the medicine explanation information stored in the storage unit 4 of the non-contact IC tag 1 is received and displayed on the display unit 11 of the patient wireless communication terminal 3a. , It is possible to confirm what kind of drug the drug is.
The confirmation of the drug at this stage is for obtaining drug information when the patient himself / herself wants to confirm the drug. Furthermore, the drug is specified by the doctor and is included in the medication schedule information regarding the prescription drug to be taken by the patient. In order to prevent mistakes, it will be described in the explanation based on FIG.

The storage unit 7 of the patient wireless communication terminal 3a stores a pre-stored processing program and medication schedule information related to prescription drugs that the patient should take based on the diagnosis.
This medication schedule information includes information such as medicines prescribed by the doctor as a treatment for the patient based on the diagnosis and the date and time when these medicines are taken. The hospital 7 stores the storage unit 7 of the patient wireless communication terminal 3a. Is registered in the storage unit 7.
FIG. 3 shows a dosing list 13 as an example of the medication schedule information.
In this medication list 13, information such as date, time of medication, medication ID information, the number of medications to be taken, etc. are registered, and when these information is actually taken by the patient, This is information for collation when determining whether or not the medicine is taken correctly.

The input unit 8 of the patient wireless communication terminal 3a allows a user to input instruction information and the like, and the communication unit 9 includes the ID information and medicine stored in the storage unit 4 from the non-contact IC tag 1 It has a function of receiving explanation information and further communicating with other wireless communication terminals.
The timekeeping unit 10 has a function of measuring date and time.
The display unit 11 has a function of displaying medicine explanation information received from the non-contact IC tag 1.
Further, as a processing program stored in advance in the storage unit 7, the patient tries to take the ID information received from the non-contact IC tag 1 and the ID information registered in the medication schedule information. When it is determined that the drug is not a drug to be administered as a result of the processing program for executing a process for determining whether or not the drug registered in the medication schedule information is correct as a drug to be administered In addition, a processing program or the like for causing the display unit to perform a display for warning is registered, and the control unit 12 executes processing based on these processing programs.

Next, based on FIG.5 and FIG.8, a patient will take from now on the basis of the medication schedule information regarding the prescription medicine which should be taken by the patient using the patient wireless communication terminal 3a. Processing for confirming whether there is no mistake in taking a drug will be described.
In the example shown in FIG. 5, the case where it is going to take a chemical | medical agent in the morning is shown.
First, the patient activates the patient wireless communication terminal 3a, and checks whether the medicine to be taken from now on is the medicine defined by the already registered medication schedule information from the input unit 8. Press the instruction key to do so, and determine the processing contents. (Step S1)

Next, the patient reads the ID information stored in the storage unit 4 of the non-contact IC tag 1 by bringing the patient wireless communication terminal 3a closer to the packaging of the medicine that he is going to take. (Step S2)
Date and time information at that time is acquired from the time measuring unit 10. (Step S3)
The patient wireless communication terminal 3a compares the ID information read from the non-contact IC tag 1 with the information on the medication list 13 of the medication schedule information already registered in the storage unit 7 of the patient wireless communication terminal 3a. . (Step S4)
In the collation process, when the collation coincides, the number of medicines is displayed. (Step S5)
And ID information received from the non-contact IC tag is memorize | stored in the memory | storage part 7 as taken medicine information with the date information which the patient took the medicine. (Step S6)
Further, if the collation does not match in the collation process, an error display is performed (step S7).
After this error display, the ID information is read from the non-contact IC tag 1 again, and if it is not corrected, it is stored in the storage unit 7 as the taken medicine information together with the date and time information that the patient has taken the medicine.

In the case of the example shown in FIG. 5, the patient reads the ID information from the non-contact IC tag 1 attached to the medicine package in an attempt to take three kinds of medicines. It is stipulated that in the morning of medicine A, 1 tablet of medicine A and 3 tablets of medicine B will be taken, but when it is checked from the ID information read, it cannot be read because there is no ID information of medicine B. Since the ID information can be read, it is displayed that the medicine C is not a medicine to be taken in the morning.
As described above, the display unit 11 of the patient wireless communication terminal 3a displays information such as medicines that may be taken or medicines that are missing from the read ID information so that the patient can easily understand.

Furthermore, as shown in FIG. 6, the wireless communication terminal 3a for patients stores the ID information received from the non-contact IC tag in the storage unit 7 as the taken medicine information together with the date information when the patient took the medicine.
The storage unit 7 of the patient wireless communication terminal 3a stores taken medicine information together with information on the date and time when the patient took the medicine.

In addition to the patient wireless communication terminal 3a carried by the patient, a doctor wireless communication terminal 3b carried by the doctor is prepared as shown in FIG.
The doctor wireless communication terminal 3b has the same function as the patient wireless communication terminal 3a, and has a function that allows communication between the communication terminals by the respective communication units.
And in the memory | storage part of the doctor wireless communication terminal 3b, in order for a doctor to treat a patient, the medication schedule information regarding the medicine which a patient should take is memorize | stored, and also as a processing program in a memory | storage part, Means for storing the ID information received from the patient wireless communication terminal 3a in the storage unit as drug medication history information of the patient, means for collating the medication schedule information and the medication history information, and the result of the collation on the display unit Means for displaying.
The display unit displays the collation result information so that the doctor can check the patient's medication use status.

  The doctor uses the doctor wireless communication terminal 3b to receive the medication history information from the patient wireless communication terminal 3a, and then checks the medication schedule information registered in the doctor wireless communication terminal 3b. Can check if the patient is taking the drug as defined in the medication schedule.

The patient wireless communication terminal 3a and the doctor wireless communication terminal 3b are preferably provided with means for notifying a warning by sound, light, display, or the like.
This may inform the patient of mistakes in taking the drug, or inform the doctor by sounding a buzzer, etc. that the patient is not taking the drug as prescribed in the medication schedule. it can.

Moreover, the medicine packaging 2 to which the non-contact IC tag 1 is attached has various forms depending on the form of medicine and the medicine company as shown in FIGS. 9 (a) to 9 (c).
FIG. 9A shows a medicine contained in a container 2a such as a bottle, and a non-contact IC tag 1 is attached to the outer surface of the container 2a.
FIG. 9B shows a package 2b in which medicine tablets are subdivided one by one and packaged so as to be separated from the formed cut sewing machine, and the non-contact IC tag 1 is attached to each tablet. Furthermore, a non-contact IC tag 1 for common use is also attached to a part of the package 2b.
Next, FIG.9 (c) shows the case where the non-contact IC tag 1 is attached | subjected to the package 2c made from the synthetic resin containing the granular tablet.
As described above, as the medicine package 2 to which the non-contact IC tag 1 is attached, the non-contact IC tag 1 can be provided in conformity to medicine packaging having various forms.

It is a figure which shows the relationship between the medicine packaging with which the non-contact IC tag was attached | subjected, and the radio | wireless communication terminal for patients in the medicine administration information management system which concerns on embodiment of this invention. 1 is a block diagram showing a system configuration of a patient wireless communication terminal and a non-contact IC tag in a medicine administration information management system according to an embodiment of the present invention. It is a figure which shows the taking list | wrist of medication schedule information regarding the chemical | medical agent medication information management system which concerns on embodiment of this invention. It is a figure showing medicine explanation information about a medicine taking information management system concerning an embodiment of the present invention. It is a figure explaining the process using the radio | wireless communication terminal for patients regarding the chemical | medical agent medication information management system which concerns on embodiment of this invention. It is a figure explaining the process using the radio | wireless communication terminal for patients regarding the chemical | medical agent medication information management system which concerns on embodiment of this invention. It is a figure explaining the process using the radio | wireless communication terminal for patients and the radio | wireless communication terminal for doctors regarding the chemical | medical agent medication information management system which concerns on embodiment of this invention. It is a flowchart which shows a process sequence regarding the chemical | medical agent medication information management system which concerns on embodiment of this invention. It is a figure which shows the kind of chemical | medical agent packaging with which the non-contact IC tag was attached | subjected regarding the chemical | medical agent medication information management system which concerns on embodiment of this invention.

Explanation of symbols

1 Non-contact IC tag
2 Drug packaging
3a Patient wireless communication terminal
3b Doctor's wireless communication terminal
4,7 memory
5,9 Communication Department
6,12 Control unit
8 Input section
10 Timekeeping Department
11 Display
13 List of doses

Claims (2)

A medication administration information management system comprising a medication packaging with a non-contact IC tag and a patient wireless communication terminal carried by the patient,
The non-contact IC tag includes a storage unit that stores ID information and drug description information of a drug contained in the drug package, and a communication unit that communicates with the patient wireless communication terminal.
The wireless communication terminal for a patient includes a storage unit that stores medication schedule information related to a prescription drug to be taken by a patient, a communication unit that receives the ID information from the non-contact IC tag, and a time measuring unit that measures the date and time. An input unit for inputting instruction information, a display unit for displaying drug explanation information received from the non-contact IC tag, ID information received from the non-contact IC tag, and an ID registered in the medication schedule information A medicine dosage information management system comprising: means for collating information and determining whether or not a medicine to be taken by a patient is registered in the medication schedule information as a medicine to be dispensed . A medicine dosage information management system comprising a medicine packaging with a non-contact IC tag, a patient wireless communication terminal carried by a patient, and a doctor wireless communication terminal carried by a doctor,
The non-contact IC tag includes a storage unit that stores ID information and drug description information of a drug contained in the drug package, and a communication unit that communicates with the patient wireless communication terminal and the doctor wireless communication terminal. Prepared,
The patient wireless communication terminal receives ID information and drug description information from a non-contact IC tag attached to a package of the medicine taken by the patient, and also receives the ID information from the doctor wireless communication terminal. A communication unit for transmitting, a time measuring unit for measuring date and time, an input unit for inputting instruction information, a display unit for displaying medicine explanation information received from the non-contact IC tag, and an ID received from the non-contact IC tag A storage unit for storing the information as information on the medication taken together with the date and time information on which the patient took the medication;
The doctor wireless communication terminal includes a storage unit storing medication schedule information related to a medicine to be taken by a patient and a ID information received from the patient wireless communication terminal for a doctor to treat the patient. Means for storing the medicine dosage history information in the storage section, means for collating the medication schedule information and the medicine dosage history information, and a display section for displaying the result of the collation. Drug administration information management system.

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