Prescription Ordering System in Hokkaido University Hospital (2) : Improvements of On-lined Automatic Tablet Packaging System

The prescription ordering system has been on-lined to a fully automatic tablet packaging machine in order to transmit the host data for inpatient periodical prescription.In this time, we tried to improve the method of transmitting the host data for prescription and drug files in the data converter, and also tried to change the operating machine for one dose packaging in order to dispense tablets more automatically.These resulted in the success of the automatic one dose packaging without modifying the host data by hand, even if the amount of drug component or unequal dispensing was inputted to the computer for prescription.Drug files enable to be changed automatically by using the hard disk in case of the partial replacement of tablet cassettes in the fully automatic tablet packaging machine.Moreover, the new operating machine for one dose packaging enables to input the data by hand easier and to record the amount of tablet consumed over all tablets automatically.