Automatic medicine packing system

Abstract

An automatic medicine packing system includes a packing envelope roll, a medicine supply unit that supplies a medicine dispensed from a tablet cassette according to prescription data, a sealing unit that heat seal a packing envelope, a database that stores prescription data, user data, and status data of the system, an wireless communication unit, an authentication unit that that authenticates the user data, a control unit, and a wireless terminal. The authentication unit includes multi-level user permission, and the authentication unit set particular level user permission according to the authentication result of the user. The multi-level user permission includes an administrator level, a packing operation user level and a monitoring operation user level. The wireless terminal includes a smart chip that contains user's authentication data.

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CLAIMING FOREIGN PRIORITY [0001] The applicant claims and requests a foreign priority, through the Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property, based on patent applications filed in the Republic of Korea (South Korea) with the filing date of Aug. 25, 2005 with the patent application number 10-2005-0078276 by the applicant, the contents of which are incorporated by reference into this disclosure as if fully set forth herein. BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION [0002] The present invention relates to an automatic medicine packing system. More particularly, this invention relates to an automatic medicine packing system in which a user can command packing of medicine and easily monitor the progress and result. [0003] Generally, an automatic medicine-packing machine refers to a machine that is installed in a hospital or a pharmacy, and automatically packs a dose of medicine that was dispensed by a pharmacist according to a prescription. Construction and operation of such a general...

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Benefits of technology

[0009] An objective of the invention is to provide a medicine packing system that can prevent wiring for network inside a hospital or a pharmacy from becoming complex, and can be easily adapted to expansion, change and moving of a facility, and has no positional limitation of user control using wireless network.

[0010] Another objective of the invention is to provide a medicine packing system that prohibits access to the system except users who are authorized to control the packing system, and strengthens security by easily identifying a user who commanded a medicine to be packed.

[0011] Still another objective of the invention is to provide a medicine packing system that provides multi-level user rights that allow a user limited range of operation, thereby strengthening security of the system, reducing malfunctions and efficiently managing the system.

[0022] The advantages of the present invention are: (1) the automatic medicine packing system prevents network wiring of a pharmacy from becoming complex; (2) the system improves security features of the system; and (3) the operation of the system becomes stable since it is possible to control the system with a wireless terminal regardless of the position of a user.

Problems solved by technology

As the number of users of an automatic medicine-packing machine, that is, the number of pharmacists increases and as the number of medicines that are prepared increases, the more control terminals are required, and a complex network construction between the automatic medicine-packing machine and the plurality of control terminals is required.

As the size of the network increases in this way, construction for cable wiring etc. in the pharmacy becomes more complex, and especially expansion of a pharmacy or facility change due to location change requires substantial cost and time.

However, in an environment of an ordinary office, a terminal like a computer is prone to unauthorized use, and thus it was difficult to identify the user if an error had occurred.

Also, there was a problem of efficiency drop since when a pharmacist wants to check the packing operation state of a medicine packing machine that is remotely positioned, he or she needs to be away from his or her seat, and in such case the pharmacist should stop every other work.

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