Dispensary management system and method
A dispensary management system includes a medicine compounding management unit for managing medicine compounding information and for automatically compounding medicines according to the medicine compounding information and a medicine storage management unit connected to the medicine compounding management for storing residual medicines and, when medicines in the medicine compounding management unit are insufficient, for informing the medicine compounding management unit of a position where medicines corresponding to insufficient medicines are stored. A dispensary management method includes inputting medicine compounding information, determining whether medicines are insufficient based on the medicine compounding information, retrieving a cabinet storing medicines corresponding to the insufficient medicines, filling the insufficient medicines, and compounding medicines according to the medicine compounding information.
1. 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.
2. The dispensary management method according to claim 1 , wherein the step of retrieving the cabinet storing the medicines corresponding to the insufficient medicines using the database server comprises:
retrieving a master cabinet for managing medicines corresponding to the insufficient medicines;
retrieving a sub cabinet storing a selected medicine cassette;
displaying the storage position of the medicine cassette in the retrieved sub cabinet; and
delivering the medicine cassette containing the medicines corresponding to the insufficient medicines.
3. The dispensary management method according to claim 1 , further comprising authenticating a user who fills the medicine cassette upon filling of the medicines corresponding to the insufficient medicines, wherein the step of authenticating the user who fills the medicine cassette is performed before the step of resetting the quantity of the medicines.
4. The dispensary management method according to claim 1 , wherein the step of compounding the medicines according to the medicine compounding information comprises displaying a medicine compounding state and error information.
5. The dispensary management method according to claim 1 , further comprising recognizing an identification code provided at each of the medicine cassettes and registering medicine information (medicine names, manufacturing companies, and the available periods), wherein the step of recognizing the identification code provided at each of the medicine cassettes and registering medicine information is performed before the step of inputting the medicine compounding information or the medicine information.
6. The dispensary management method according to claim 1 , further comprising authenticating a user who retrieves medicine cassettes, wherein the step of authenticating the user who retrieves the medicine cassettes is performed before the step of retrieving the medicine cassette.
7. The dispensary management method according to claim 1 , 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 information on the medicine cassette having the minimum movement distance based on a user retrieval position upon determining that a plurality of pieces of the retrieved medicine cassette information is present.