Dispensing pharmacy support system and drug information provision method

Abstract

To satisfy the need of a pharmacy desiring to incorporate patients as much as possible as a pharmacy target customer.SOLUTION: A pharmacy support system includes: a prescription drug detection part 12 for detecting a prescription drug different from a prescription drug shown by prescription information and having subjected a target patient to dispensing in another dispensing pharmacy different from one dispensing pharmacy on the basis of information on the prescription of the target patient inputted into a pharmacy terminal 40 of the one dispensing pharmacy and a dispensing history database 100 recording information on the dispensing histories of a plurality of patients; and a prescription drug report part 14 for reporting another detected prescription drug to the one dispensing pharmacy. When the target patient receives the dispensing of a prescription drug put in the one dispensing pharmacy, the one dispensing pharmacy having received the report can take the correspondence of telling the target patient to dispense another prescription drug by reporting the another prescription drug of the target patient having received the dispensing in the another dispensing pharmacy to the one dispensing pharmacy.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 2

Description

[Technical Field]

[0001] The present invention relates to a dispensing pharmacy support system and a drug information providing method, and is particularly suitable for use in a system that provides information on prescription drugs to dispensing pharmacies. [Background technology]

[0002] Generally, patients who receive a prescription from a medical institution receive the prescribed medication at an outside pharmacy. Specifically, the patient goes to a pharmacy, hands over the prescription they received from the medical institution, and requests that the medication be dispensed. Once the medication is dispensed, the patient receives medication instructions from a pharmacist, receives the prescribed medication, and pays for it. However, the pharmacy they visit may not always be able to dispense the medication listed on the prescription. If the pharmacy they visit is unable to dispense the prescribed medication, the patient must go to another pharmacy, which is extremely inconvenient.

[0003] In response to this, a system is known that searches for dispensing pharmacies that can dispense prescriptions and notifies the patient (see, for example, Patent Document 1). In response to access from a patient, the prescription intermediary device described in Patent Document 1 extracts dispensing pharmacies that can dispense based on prescription information sent from a medical institution to the prescription intermediary device and dispensing pharmacy information sent to the prescription intermediary device from each of multiple dispensing pharmacies and collected, and presents the extracted dispensing pharmacies to the patient. When the patient receives the presented dispensing pharmacies and selects one of them, the prescription intermediary device transmits the prescription information to the selected pharmacy. [Prior art documents] [Patent documents]

[0004] [Patent Document 1] Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 2003-58639 Summary of the Invention [Problem to be solved by the invention]

[0005] The system described in Patent Document 1 above can be said to be a convenient system from the patient's point of view. On the other hand, from the point of view of the dispensing pharmacy, it cannot be said to necessarily meet the needs. The needs here are the needs to attract as many patients as possible as dispensing customers.

[0006] For example, if a patient uses the system described in Patent Document 1 when receiving a prescription for a first medication, and a pharmacy has registered pharmacy information in the system indicating that it can dispense that medication, that pharmacy will be presented to the patient as one of the pharmacies that can dispense that medication. However, in the case of repeated prescriptions, patients typically have the medication dispensed at the same pharmacy as before, and it is unlikely that they would go to the trouble of using the system described in Patent Document 1. Therefore, even if another pharmacy has registered in the system that it can dispense that prescription medication, the other pharmacy will not be presented to the patient as information from the system. Therefore, it can be said that it is difficult for that other pharmacy to attract that patient as a new dispensing customer.

[0007] The present invention has been made to solve such problems, and aims to satisfy the needs of dispensing pharmacies that want to attract as many patients as possible as customers for dispensing medicines. [Means for solving the problem]

[0008] In order to solve the above-mentioned problems, the dispensing pharmacy support system of the present invention detects prescription drugs other than those indicated by the prescription information that the target patient has received at a dispensing pharmacy other than the first dispensing pharmacy, based on prescription information for the target patient input into a terminal at a first dispensing pharmacy and a dispensing history database that records historical information on which drugs have been dispensed for each of multiple patients and at which dispensing pharmacy, and notifies the first dispensing pharmacy of the detected prescription drugs. [Effects of the Invention]

[0009] According to the present invention configured as described above, when a target patient receives a prescription at a dispensing pharmacy, the first dispensing pharmacy is notified of prescriptions other than the first prescription that the target patient has received at another dispensing pharmacy. Upon receiving this notification, the first dispensing pharmacy can take action, such as informing the target patient that the first dispensing pharmacy can also dispense the other prescription that the target patient has received at the other dispensing pharmacy. This allows the present invention to meet the needs of dispensing pharmacies, which want to attract as many patients as possible as potential dispensing customers. [Brief explanation of the drawings]

[0010] [Figure 1] 1 is a diagram illustrating an example of the configuration of a dispensing pharmacy support system according to an embodiment of the present invention. [Figure 2] FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing an example of a functional configuration of a medicine information providing server according to the present embodiment. [Figure 3] 3 is a schematic diagram for explaining the processing contents of a prescription drug detection unit and a prescription drug notification unit according to the present embodiment. FIG. [Figure 4] 10 is a flowchart showing an example of the operation of the medicine information providing server according to the present embodiment. DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0011] An embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. Fig. 1 is a diagram showing an example of the configuration of a dispensing pharmacy support system 1 according to this embodiment. As shown in Fig. 1, the dispensing pharmacy support system 1 of this embodiment is configured to include a drug information providing server 10, an inventory management server 20, a dispensing history database 100, an affiliated store database 101, and an inventory database 200. The drug information providing server 10 and the inventory management server 20 are connected via a communication network 60 such as the Internet.

[0012] As shown in FIG. 1 , the dispensing pharmacy support system 1 of this embodiment is connected to a medicine notebook management server 30 via a communication network 60, and acquires and uses dispensing history information managed in a medicine notebook database 300 by the medicine notebook management server 30 from the medicine notebook management server 30. The dispensing history information recorded in the medicine notebook database 300 is collected from a medicine notebook app installed on a patient terminal 50 used by a patient who receives prescription drugs, and from terminals of dispensing pharmacies (including both affiliated pharmacies and non-affiliated pharmacies, as described below) that dispense prescription drugs. The medicine notebook app is an application for managing various pieces of drug information related to prescription drugs taken by patients, and patients can receive various electronic medicine notebook services through the use of the medicine notebook app.

[0013] Furthermore, the dispensing pharmacy support system 1 of this embodiment is connected via a communication network 60 to a pharmacy terminal 40 used by a dispensing pharmacy that is an affiliated store registered to use the system, and acquires prescription information from the pharmacy terminal 40 and provides information to the pharmacy terminal 40 regarding prescription drugs different from the prescription drugs indicated in the prescription information. An affiliated store registered to use the system is a dispensing pharmacy that has concluded a specified contract with the operating company regarding the use of the dispensing pharmacy support system 1 of this embodiment. In this embodiment, information is provided to the dispensing pharmacy that enables it to meet the need to attract as many patients as possible as dispensing customers.

[0014] The drug information providing server 10 acquires prescription information from the pharmacy terminal 40 and performs a process of providing the pharmacy terminal 40 with information on prescription drugs other than the prescription drugs indicated in the prescription information. The drug information providing server 10 may be configured as a single server device or may be configured as multiple server devices. For example, a server device that performs a process of detecting information on other prescription drugs based on the prescription information acquired from the pharmacy terminal 40 and a server device that performs a process of providing the pharmacy terminal 40 with information on the detected other prescription drugs may be configured separately.

[0015] When performing the above processing, the medicine information providing server 10 uses the dispensing history information recorded in the dispensing history database 100 and the affiliated store information recorded in the affiliated store database 101. The affiliated store database 101 records information indicating affiliated dispensing pharmacies that are registered to use the system. When a contract is concluded between a dispensing pharmacy and the operator of the dispensing pharmacy support system 1, information indicating the dispensing pharmacy that has become an affiliated store is recorded in the affiliated store database 101.

[0016] Dispensing history database 100 is a database that records historical information about which medications have been dispensed for each of a plurality of patients and at which dispensing pharmacy. The dispensing history information recorded in this dispensing history database 100 is collected from pharmacy terminal 40 and medication notebook management server 30. The dispensing history information recorded in dispensing history database 100 may also be collected from a database managed by a health insurance association. Here, the server device that performs the process of recording the dispensing history information in dispensing history database 100 may be configured separately from the server device that performs the process of providing information about other prescription medications to pharmacy terminal 40.

[0017] The pharmacy terminal 40 includes a so-called receipt computer. The receipt computer is a computer system for creating a receipt (remuneration statement) for a dispensing pharmacy to claim dispensing fees from a payment institution such as a health insurance association. When a dispensing pharmacy receives a prescription from a patient and dispenses medication, the dispensing pharmacy inputs various information indicated on the prescription into the receipt computer. The pharmacy terminal 40 transmits the prescription information input into the receipt computer to the drug information providing server 10, and the drug information providing server 10 records dispensing history information in the dispensing history database 100 based on the prescription information received from the pharmacy terminal 40. In this embodiment, the prescription information transmitted from the pharmacy terminal 40 to the drug information providing server 10 does not need to include all of the various information input into the receipt computer; it is sufficient if it includes at least the patient's name and information on the prescribed drug. Note that other information may also be included.

[0018] The medicine notebook management server 30 transmits the dispensing history information recorded in the medicine notebook database 300 to the medicine information providing server 10, and the medicine information providing server 10 records the dispensing history information received from the medicine notebook management server 30 in the dispensing history database 100. The dispensing history information transmitted from the medicine notebook management server 30 to the medicine information providing server 10 only needs to include at least the patient's name and information on the prescribed drug, and may also include other information.

[0019] When prescription information is entered from the receipt computer, the pharmacy terminal 40 transmits the prescription information to the medicine information providing server 10 in real time, whereas the medicine notebook management server 30 transmits multiple pieces of dispensing history information recorded in the medicine notebook database 300 in batches at predetermined intervals. Also, the dispensing history information recorded in the dispensing history database 100 based on the prescription information transmitted from the pharmacy terminal 40 is dispensing history information related to prescription drugs dispensed at member dispensing pharmacies, whereas the dispensing history information transmitted from the medicine notebook management server 30 includes not only prescription drugs dispensed at member dispensing pharmacies but also dispensing history information related to prescription drugs dispensed at non-member dispensing pharmacies that are not registered to use the system.

[0020] Furthermore, when executing a process of providing information on another prescription drug to the pharmacy terminal 40, the drug information providing server 10 obtains and uses inventory information on the other prescription drug from the inventory management server 20. The inventory management server 20 sequentially obtains information indicating the inventory status of various drugs used at each dispensing pharmacy from multiple pharmacy terminals 40, generates inventory information, and records it in the inventory database 200. The information indicating the inventory status transmitted from the pharmacy terminal 40 may be, for example, information on the receipt and delivery of drugs or information on the remaining number of drugs. In response to a request from the drug information providing server 10, the inventory management server 20 reads inventory information on the other prescription drug from the inventory database 200 and provides it to the drug information providing server 10.

[0021] Fig. 2 is a block diagram showing an example of the functional configuration of the drug information providing server 10 according to this embodiment. Note that Fig. 2 shows only the essential components according to this embodiment, and does not show the functional configuration related to the process of recording dispensing history information in the dispensing history database 100.

[0022] 2, the drug information providing server 10 has, as its functional configuration, a prescription information acquiring unit 11, a prescription drug detecting unit 12, a dispensing availability determining unit 13, and a prescription drug notifying unit 14. These functional blocks 11 to 14 can be configured using any of hardware, a DSP (Digital Signal Processor), and software. For example, when configured using software, the functional blocks 11 to 14 are actually configured with a computer's CPU, RAM, ROM, etc., and are realized by the operation of a program stored in a recording medium such as RAM, ROM, a hard disk, or a semiconductor memory.

[0023] The prescription information acquisition unit 11 acquires prescription information of a target patient that has been input into the pharmacy terminal 40 of one dispensing pharmacy that is an affiliated store, from the pharmacy terminal 40. That is, when one dispensing pharmacy accepts a prescription from a patient and inputs various pieces of information indicated on the prescription into a receipt computer, the pharmacy terminal 40 transmits the prescription information input into the receipt computer to the drug information providing server 10. The prescription information acquisition unit 11 of the drug information providing server 10 acquires the prescription information transmitted from the pharmacy terminal 40 in this manner.

[0024] A prescription is received at a dispensing pharmacy by handing it over to the pharmacy by a patient visiting the pharmacy. Alternatively, the prescription may be received by receiving a prescription image transmitted via a medicine notebook app on the patient terminal 50. That is, one of the services that a patient can receive from the medicine notebook management server 30 via the medicine notebook app on the patient terminal 50 is a dispensing reservation service. A patient can take a photo of the prescription given to them by a medical institution using the camera function of the patient terminal 50, send the prescription image to the medicine notebook management server 30, and reserve the dispensing at a desired pharmacy. At this time, the medicine notebook management server 30 transmits the prescription image acquired from the patient terminal 50 to a specified pharmacy terminal 40 to reserve the dispensing. The dispensing pharmacy enters the prescription information into a receipt computer based on the prescription image received from the medicine notebook management server 30.

[0025] Based on the prescription information of the target patient acquired by the prescription information acquisition unit 11 and the dispensing history information of multiple patients recorded in the dispensing history database 100, the prescription drug detection unit 12 detects prescription drugs other than those indicated by the prescription information that have been dispensed to the target patient at a dispensing pharmacy other than the one dispensing pharmacy. Here, the other prescription drugs that have been dispensed to the target patient at a non-affiliated dispensing pharmacy are detected. Whether a dispensing pharmacy is an affiliated or non-affiliated store can be determined by referring to the affiliated store database 101.

[0026] Figure 3 is a schematic diagram for explaining the processing content of this prescription drug detection unit 12. Note that Figure 3 also includes the processing content of prescription drug notification unit 14, which will be described later. In Figure 3, it is assumed that target patient P has requested one affiliated dispensing pharmacy D1 to dispense drug A prescribed at hospital H1. It is also assumed that target patient P had previously received drug B prescribed at hospital H2 from another non-affiliated dispensing pharmacy D2, and that dispensing history information indicating this has been recorded in dispensing history database 100.

[0027] In this case, the prescription drug detection unit 12 detects another prescription drug B that the target patient P has received at another non-affiliated dispensing pharmacy D2 different from the first dispensing pharmacy D1, based on the prescription information of the target patient P sent from the pharmacy terminal 40 of the first dispensing pharmacy D1, the dispensing history information of multiple patients recorded in the dispensing history database 100, and the affiliated store information recorded in the affiliated store database 101.

[0028] That is, the prescription information of the target patient P includes the name of the target patient P and information indicating the prescribed drug A. Meanwhile, the dispensing history database 100 records dispensing history information indicating that the target patient P has previously had prescription drug B dispensed at dispensing pharmacy D2. Furthermore, information regarding dispensing pharmacy D2 is not recorded in the member store database 101, making it possible to determine that dispensing pharmacy D2 is a non-member store. This enables the prescription drug detection unit 12 to detect another prescription drug B, which is different from prescription drug A indicated in the prescription information transmitted from one dispensing pharmacy D1 and which the target patient P has previously received dispensed at another dispensing pharmacy D2 that is a non-member store different from the one dispensing pharmacy D1.

[0029] If dispensing pharmacy D2 is an affiliated pharmacy, prescription drug detection unit 12 will not detect prescription drug B. Even if dispensing pharmacy D2 is a non-affiliated pharmacy, if only dispensing history information indicating that prescription drug B was dispensed to another patient is recorded in dispensing history database 100, and dispensing history information indicating that prescription drug B was dispensed to target patient P is not recorded in dispensing history database 100, prescription drug detection unit 12 will not detect prescription drug B.

[0030] The dispensing allowance determination unit 13 determines whether another prescription drug detected by the prescription drug detection unit 12 can be dispensed at the same dispensing pharmacy, based on an inventory database 200 that records drug inventory information for each of a plurality of dispensing pharmacies. That is, the dispensing allowance determination unit 13 inquires of the inventory management server 20 whether the other prescription drug detected by the prescription drug detection unit 12 (prescription drug B in the example of FIG. 3) is in stock at the same dispensing pharmacy (dispensing pharmacy D1 in the example of FIG. 3). The inventory management server 20 refers to the inventory database 200, confirms whether dispensing pharmacy D1 has prescription drug B in stock, and notifies the dispensing allowance determination unit 13 of the confirmation result. When the dispensing allowance determination unit 13 is notified that dispensing pharmacy D1 has prescription drug B in stock, it determines that the prescription drug B detected by the prescription drug detection unit 12 can be dispensed at the same dispensing pharmacy D1. On the other hand, when the dispensing possibility determination unit 13 receives notification that the dispensing pharmacy D1 does not have prescription drug B in stock, it determines that prescription drug B detected by the prescription drug detection unit 12 cannot be dispensed at the dispensing pharmacy D1.

[0031] The prescription drug notification unit 14 notifies the one dispensing pharmacy of another prescription drug detected by the prescription drug detection unit 12. In this embodiment, the prescription drug notification unit 14 notifies the one dispensing pharmacy of another prescription drug detected by the prescription drug detection unit 12 only when the dispensing possibility determination unit 13 determines that the drug can be dispensed. The method of notification is arbitrary. For example, the notification may be made by sending an email to the pharmacy terminal 40, or by sending a print command to a printer (not shown) connected to the pharmacy terminal 40. In the latter case, the print command includes print data, and the pharmacy terminal 40, upon receiving the print command, causes the printer to print the print data.

[0032] Upon receiving this notification, dispensing pharmacy D1 can take appropriate action, such as informing patient P that another prescription drug B that patient P has been dispensed at dispensing pharmacy D2 can also be dispensed at dispensing pharmacy D1, as shown in Figure 3, when dispensing prescription drug A and delivering it to patient P. After this, when patient P is prescribed drug B at hospital H2, patient P is free to choose whether to have it dispensed at dispensing pharmacy D1 or dispensing pharmacy D2, but there is a possibility that patient P will choose dispensing pharmacy D1. If patient P determines that dispensing pharmacy D1 is more convenient, he or she will likely choose dispensing pharmacy D1 from next time onwards.

[0033] 4 is a flowchart showing an example of the operation of the drug information providing server 10 according to this embodiment configured as described above. First, the prescription information acquiring unit 11 acquires prescription information of a target patient that has been input to the pharmacy terminal 40 of a member dispensing pharmacy from the pharmacy terminal 40 (step S1). That is, when the member dispensing pharmacy inputs various pieces of information indicated on a prescription received from a patient into a receipt computer, the prescription information input into the receipt computer is transmitted from the pharmacy terminal 40 to the drug information providing server 10, and the prescription information acquiring unit 11 acquires this prescription information.

[0034] Next, based on the prescription information of the target patient acquired by the prescription information acquisition unit 11, the dispensing history information of multiple patients recorded in the dispensing history database 100, and the affiliated store information recorded in the affiliated store database 101, the prescription drug detection unit 12 detects prescription drugs other than those indicated by the prescription information that the target patient has received at a non-affiliated dispensing pharmacy different from the first dispensing pharmacy (step S2).

[0035] Then, the dispensing possibility determination unit 13 inquires of the inventory management server 20 whether the other prescription drug detected by the prescription drug detection unit 12 is in stock at the one dispensing pharmacy, and determines whether the other prescription drug detected by the prescription drug detection unit 12 can be dispensed at the one dispensing pharmacy based on the inventory database 200 that records drug inventory information (step S3).

[0036] If it is determined that the other prescription drug can be dispensed at the first dispensing pharmacy, the prescription drug notification unit 14 notifies the first dispensing pharmacy of the other prescription drug (step S4). This ends the processing of the flowchart shown in Figure 4. On the other hand, if it is determined that the other prescription drug cannot be dispensed at the first dispensing pharmacy, the processing of step S4 is not performed, and the processing of the flowchart shown in Figure 4 ends.

[0037] As explained in detail above, in this embodiment, based on the prescription information of the target patient inputted into the pharmacy terminal 40 of a member dispensing pharmacy and the dispensing history database 100 which records historical information on which drugs have been dispensed for each of multiple patients and at which dispensing pharmacy, prescription drugs other than those indicated by the prescription information that have been dispensed to the target patient at another non-member dispensing pharmacy different from the member dispensing pharmacy are detected, and the detected other prescription drugs are notified to the member dispensing pharmacy.

[0038] According to this embodiment configured as described above, when a target patient receives a prescription at a dispensing pharmacy, the first dispensing pharmacy is notified of prescriptions other than the first prescription that the target patient has received at another dispensing pharmacy. Upon receiving this notification, the first dispensing pharmacy can take action, such as informing the target patient that the first dispensing pharmacy can also dispense the other prescription that the target patient has received at the other dispensing pharmacy. This embodiment thus satisfies the needs of dispensing pharmacies to attract as many patients as possible as potential dispensing customers.

[0039] In the above embodiment, an example has been described in which prescription drug detection unit 12 detects another prescription drug only when the other dispensing pharmacy at which the target patient has received another prescription drug is a non-affiliated pharmacy, but the present invention is not limited to this. That is, even when the other dispensing pharmacy at which the target patient has received another prescription drug is an affiliated pharmacy, the other prescription drug may be detected by prescription drug detection unit 12. For example, affiliated pharmacies may be ranked based on factors such as the number of years of affiliation, franchise fees paid, store size, and so on, and when the other dispensing pharmacies are ranked lower than the first dispensing pharmacy, the other prescription drug for which the target patient has received another prescription drug at the other dispensing pharmacy may be detected.

[0040] Furthermore, in the above embodiment, an example configuration has been described in which all four functional blocks 11 to 14 are provided in the drug information providing server 10, but the present invention is not limited to this. For example, the dispensing allowance determination unit 13 and the prescription drug notification unit 14 may be provided in a server device other than the drug information providing server 10 or in the pharmacy terminal 40. When the dispensing allowance determination unit 13 and the prescription drug notification unit 14 are provided in the pharmacy terminal 40, the dispensing allowance determination unit 13 refers to an inventory database independently held by each dispensing pharmacy, and determines whether or not another prescription drug detected by the prescription drug detection unit 12 (notified by the drug information providing server 10) can be dispensed at a given dispensing pharmacy.

[0041] Also, the dispensing possibility determination unit 13, the inventory management server 20, and the inventory database 200 may be omitted, and another prescription drug detected by the prescription drug detection unit 12 may be notified to the one dispensing pharmacy. In this case, for example, the one dispensing pharmacy that has received the notification may determine whether or not to notify the target patient that another prescription drug that the target patient has received at another dispensing pharmacy can also be dispensed at the one dispensing pharmacy, and may notify the patient if necessary.

[0042] Alternatively, the inventory management server 20 and inventory database 200 may be omitted, and information on the drugs handled, indicating which drugs are handled at the affiliated pharmacy, may be recorded as affiliated store information in the affiliated store database 101, and the dispensing eligibility determination unit 13 may refer to this drug handling information to determine whether or not another prescription drug detected by the prescription drug detection unit 12 can be dispensed at a certain pharmacy.

[0043] Furthermore, the above-described embodiments are merely examples of specific embodiments for carrying out the present invention, and the technical scope of the present invention should not be construed as being limited thereby. In other words, the present invention can be carried out in various forms without departing from the gist or main characteristics thereof. [Explanation of symbols]

[0044] 1. Pharmacy support system 10. Drug information server 11 Prescription information acquisition unit 12 Prescription drug detection unit 13 Dispensing Approval Determination Department 14 Prescription Drug Notification Department 20 Inventory Management Server 40 Pharmacy terminal 100 Dispensing History Database 101 Member Store Database 200 inventory database

Claims

1. A dispensing pharmacy support system that provides information about prescription drugs to dispensing pharmacies, a prescription information acquisition unit that acquires prescription information of a target patient input into a terminal of one dispensing pharmacy; a prescription drug detection unit that detects prescription drugs other than those indicated by the prescription information and that have been dispensed to the target patient at a dispensing pharmacy other than the one dispensing pharmacy, based on the prescription information acquired by the prescription information acquisition unit and a dispensing history database that records history information on which drugs have been dispensed to each of a plurality of patients and at which dispensing pharmacy; a prescription drug notification unit that notifies the one dispensing pharmacy of the other prescription drug detected by the prescription drug detection unit. A dispensing pharmacy support system characterized by:

2. The prescription information acquisition unit acquires prescription information of the target patient input into a terminal of the one dispensing pharmacy that is a member store registered for system use, The prescription drug detection unit detects prescription drugs that are different from the prescription drugs indicated by the prescription information and that the target patient has received at the other dispensing pharmacy that is a non-affiliated store that is not registered for system use. The dispensing pharmacy support system according to claim 1 .

3. a dispensing possibility determination unit that determines whether the other prescription drug detected by the prescription drug detection unit can be dispensed at the one dispensing pharmacy based on an inventory database that records drug inventory information at each of a plurality of dispensing pharmacies; The prescription drug notification unit notifies the one dispensing pharmacy of the other prescription drug detected by the prescription drug detection unit only when the dispensing possibility determination unit determines that the other prescription drug can be dispensed.

3. The dispensing pharmacy support system according to claim 1 or 2.

4. A drug information providing method for providing information about prescription drugs to a terminal of a dispensing pharmacy, A first step in which a prescription information acquisition unit of a computer acquires prescription information of a target patient input into a terminal of one dispensing pharmacy; a second step in which a prescription drug detection unit of the computer detects prescription drugs other than those indicated by the prescription information and which have been dispensed to the target patient at a dispensing pharmacy other than the one dispensing pharmacy, based on the prescription information acquired by the prescription information acquisition unit and a dispensing history database that records history information on which drugs have been dispensed to each of a plurality of patients and at which dispensing pharmacy; and a third step in which a prescription drug notification unit of the computer notifies the one dispensing pharmacy of the other prescription drug detected by the prescription drug detection unit. A method for providing drug information.

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