Drug administering system and administering method

• Main Author: HIROYUKI KOSAKA
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 24.12.2001
• Edition: 7
• Subjects: BABY COMFORTERS; CALCULATING; CHAIRS FOR DENTISTRY; COMPUTING; CONTAINERS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR MEDICAL OR PHARMACEUTICALPURPOSES; COUNTING; DEVICES FOR ADMINISTERING FOOD OR MEDICINES ORALLY; DEVICES FOR RECEIVING SPITTLE; DEVICES OR METHODS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR BRINGINGPHARMACEUTICAL PRODUCTS INTO PARTICULAR PHYSICAL ORADMINISTERING FORMS; FUNERAL DEVICES; HANDLING RECORD CARRIERS; HEALTHCARE INFORMATICS, i.e. INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONTECHNOLOGY [ICT] SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR THE HANDLING ORPROCESSING OF MEDICAL OR HEALTHCARE DATA; HUMAN NECESSITIES; HYGIENE; INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY [ICT] SPECIALLY ADAPTEDFOR SPECIFIC APPLICATION FIELDS; MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE; OPERATING TABLES OR CHAIRS; PHYSICS; PRESENTATION OF DATA; RECOGNITION OF DATA; RECORD CARRIERS; TRANSPORT OR ACCOMODATION FOR PATIENTS

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.