TWI730508B - Drug identification method - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention relates to a drug identification method. It is mainly to improve the learning efficiency of artificial intelligence. First, the personnel in the dispensing room place the prescription drugs in the drug bag according to the prescription; then the drug bag identification system performs the drug identification on the drug bag, and compares it The prescription note gets the correctness, incorrectness, or unconfirmation status of the prescription drug; then, based on the incorrectness or unconfirmation status of the prescription drug, the staff in the drug delivery room re-checks the correctness of the prescriptions of the medicine bag and reports to the labor Smart unit; finally, deliver the medicine bag to the medicine picker, and repeat the above steps.

Description

Drug identification method

The present invention relates to a method for identifying medicines, and specifically refers to verifying feedback information by humans, and then strengthening artificial intelligence learning targets based on this, and repetitively accumulating experience processes to significantly improve the efficiency of machine learning.

Human beings must go through the four major stages of birth, old age, sickness and death from birth. Newborn babies will become ill due to weak antibodies and environmental factors, and the growth process will allow the virus to become organic due to human-to-human contact and deterioration of physical conditions. You can take advantage of it and get sick. In the end, besides long-term care due to physical aging, it also increases the chance of getting sick.

Among them, medical staff’s "medicine distribution errors" are the main cause of common medical disputes; in Taiwan, hospital wards are often areas of high accidents with drug distribution errors, and medical safety problems for patients due to drug errors will be serious, which may lead to serious problems. The patient died; in this regard, many hospitals have gradually adopted a variety of methods to improve such problems.

In the part of improving the problem of "dispensing errors", there are additional manpower to recheck, or machine to dispense, otherwise the conventional drug identification device is used to help improve the problem; however, the cost of manpower recheck is high, and the improvement is limited, and there is a problem with machine dispensing. Its medicines are restricted, so the future direction is mainly based on medicine identification.

Regarding the literature on drug identification, several patents are as follows:

Japan 2014-135846 disclosed a medicine dispensing device, the purpose of which is to be simple and The authentic method for the identification and inspection of the medicine before packaging includes: a plurality of medicine boxes; manual dispensing medicine supply device; printing means for printing the taking information contained in the prescription information on the packaging paper; packaging means, which are supplied With packaging paper, the medicines dispensed from the medicine box or the above-mentioned manual dispensing medicine supply device are packaged in units of 1 pack according to the prescription information; the medicine before being packaged by the packaging paper by the packaging means is rotated Rotating means; an imaging means that takes pictures of the medicine that is rotated by the rotating means together with the recognition unit; the control means carries out identification inspection processing, which reads from the medicines photographed by the imaging means Take the identification part, extract the medicine information based on the read identification part, and compare it with the medicine information contained in the prescription data.

Japan 2015-133109 discloses an identification inspection support system that has an identification inspection display processing unit that can support pharmacists' identification inspections of tablets packaged in a tablet packaging device. The identification inspection display processing unit is The subcontracting unit displays the photographic images of the tablets taken before the tablets are packaged with packaging materials, and displays the identification based on the identification information of the tablets contained in the photographic images of the tablets and the aforementioned prescription data. As a result of the inspection processing, the tablet is dispensed from either or both of the tablet kit and the manual drug dispensing unit based on the prescription data in the tablet packaging device.

Taiwan I277007 discloses a method for applying radio frequency identification system to medicine management, which includes the following steps: (a) Store a plurality of medicines in a medicine box, and the medicine box is equipped with an electronic control lock to control the medicine box. Box door switch; (b) The electronic control lock can be identified and opened by the identification card of the person; (c) A radio frequency signal is transmitted through a person identification antenna to identify the identification card of the person, and the identification data of the person is sent to a servo (D) At least one medicine identification antenna is installed in the medicine box, and the medicine identification antenna can detect and identify Electronic tags on medicines; (e) The radio frequency identification reader collects new data of medicines through radio frequency signals, and then completes the task of comparing the new data taken out or placed in medicines with existing data through a server database.

However, the certainty of a single image recognition is slightly insufficient, and the wireless signal has more restrictions on drug types and packaging, and cannot be perfectly integrated with the existing hospital processes in Taiwan. Therefore, the purpose of the present invention is to provide a drug recognition method. To improve the related issues stated above.

In view of the above problems, the present invention provides a drug identification method, which uses image identification and reconfirmation by personnel to enhance the learning effect.

Therefore, the main purpose of the present invention is to provide a drug identification method, which allows personnel to respond to the reliability status to correct the uncertainty of artificial intelligence, thereby improving the next confirmation.

Another object of the present invention is to provide a medicine identification method, which uses a medicine bag with a special textured surface structure to maintain patient privacy and optimize identification.

Another object of the present invention is to provide a medicine identification method that uses a display device to present prescription medicines, remind personnel of the correct appearance of the prescription medicines, and reduce the chance of placing errors.

Another object of the present invention is to provide a medicine identification method that uses the label on the surface of the medicine bag to confirm the prescription and improve the identification and confirmation.

Another object of the present invention is to provide a medicine identification method that uses a medicine bag calibration identification system to perform medicine identification on the medicine bag to report the artificial intelligence unit and improve the collection of single prescription medicine data.

In order to achieve the above objective, the main technical means used in the present invention are achieved by the following technical solutions. The present invention is a drug identification method, the steps of which include: Step A: A person in the dispensing room places at least one prescription drug in a drug bag according to a prescription; Step B: A drug bag identification system performs drug identification on the drug bag, and compares the prescription to obtain the correct determination for the prescription drug , Confirm the error or the status of the unconfirmed; Step C: According to the confirmed error or the unconfirmed status of the prescription drug, a staff of a drug delivery room will re-check the correctness of the prescriptions of the medicine bag and report an artificial intelligence unit; Step D : Deliver the medicine bag to a medicine picker, and repeat these steps A to D.

The purpose of the present invention and the solution of its technical problems can be further achieved by adopting the following technical measures.

In the aforementioned method, one side of the medicine bag has a transparent, matte or special textured surface structure, so that the medicine bag identification system can perform medicine identification.

In the aforementioned method, in step A, the appearance of the prescription drug is presented by a display device.

In the aforementioned method, after step A, the medicine bag identification system confirms the prescription note through a prescription label on the surface of the medicine bag.

In the foregoing method, in step B, the medicine bag identification system uses the artificial intelligence unit to identify the basis of one or more combinations of the quantity of the prescription drug, the surface text of the prescription drug, the shape of the prescription drug, or the color of the prescription drug .

In the foregoing method, in step C, another display device presents the appearance of the prescription drug.

In the aforementioned method, after step C, a medicine bag calibration and identification system performs medicine identification on the medicine bag and reports the artificial intelligence unit.

The foregoing method, wherein the medicine bag is moved from the dispensing room by a conveyor belt device Go to the medicine room.

In the aforementioned method, the artificial intelligence unit trains the discrimination ability according to the state of the prescription drug in the step B and the correctness of the prescription drug in the step C.

In the aforementioned method, the artificial intelligence unit trains the discrimination ability according to the image of the medicine bag correction and identification system.

Compared with the conventional technology, the present invention has the following effects: (1) Using the reliable state of the personnel's reply to correct the uncertainty of artificial intelligence, thereby improving the limitation of artificial intelligence; (2) Through the combination of the medicine bag and the special texture surface structure, it can be Maintain patient privacy and optimize identification; (3) Relying on a display device to present prescription drugs, remind personnel of the correct appearance of prescription drugs, reduce the chance of placing errors, and improve personnel stability.

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30: Medicine picker

40: Conveyor belt equipment

Figure 1: is a flow chart of the first embodiment of the present invention.

Figure 2: is a flow chart of the second embodiment of the present invention.

Figure 3: A flow chart of the third embodiment of the present invention.

Figure 4a: is a schematic diagram of step A of the best embodiment of the present invention.

Figure 4b: is a schematic diagram of step B of the best embodiment of the present invention.

Figure 4c: is a schematic diagram of step C of the best embodiment of the present invention.

Figure 4d: is a schematic diagram of step D of the best embodiment of the present invention.

In order to make the purpose, features and effects of the present invention more obvious and understandable, the following specifically lists the best embodiment of the present invention: First, please refer to the first embodiment described in the first diagram. The present invention is a kind of medicine. The object identification method includes step A (A), step B (B), step C (C), and step D (D).

Among them, step A (A) in Figure 1 is that a person (11) of a dispensing room (10) places at least one prescription medicine (V) in a medicine bag (W) according to a prescription note (U).

The purpose of this step A (A) is to manually place each prescription (V) in the medicine bag (W) according to the prescriptions (V) stated on the prescription sheet (U) as shown in Figure 4a. Among them, the dispensing room (10) is a place for storing prescription drugs (V) and dispensing prescription drugs (V); and the person (11) is a person who is deployed in the dispensing room (10) to assist in dispensing prescription drugs (V); further, Prescription (U) is a medical treatment prescribed by a physician for a patient’s symptoms, indicating patient information, drug name, dosage, quantity, and physician’s name; among them, prescription drug (V) is a definition of drug management, which means that it requires a licensed physician , Medicines that can be dispensed, purchased, and used with the prescription of a practicing assistant physician or the consent of the pharmacy staff; the medicine bag (W) is the delivered medicine container or package except that the patient information, the name of the medicine, the dosage, the quantity, the usage, and the function In addition to warnings or side effects, it should also include the name of the institution and place, the name of the physician, the name of the person who made the adjustment, and the time of the adjustment.

Among them, step B (B) in Figure 1 is to perform drug identification on the medicine bag (W) by a medicine bag identification system (X), and compare the prescription note (U) to obtain a determination for the prescription medicine (V) Correct, incorrect, or unable to confirm the status.

The function of this step B (B) is as shown in Figure 4b, the medicine bag identification system (X) compares the content of the prescription medicine (V) with the prescription note (U) through the medicine bag (W); better , The medicine bag (W) has a transparent, matte or special texture surface structure on one side, so that the medicine bag identification system (X) can perform prescription medicine (V) identification for the medicine bag (W); among them, the medicine bag identification The system (X) is based on one or more combinations of the number of prescription drugs (V), the surface text of the prescription drugs (V), the shape of the prescription drugs (V), or the color of the prescription drugs (V) through the artificial intelligence unit (Y). According to this, the correctness, incorrectness, or unconfirmation status of the prescription drug (V) can be obtained.

Among them, step C (C) in Figure 1 is based on the prescription drug (V) determination error or unrecognizable status, a staff (21) of a drug delivery room (20) re-examines the drug bag (W) Each prescription drug (V) is correct, and an artificial intelligence unit (Y) is reported.

This step C (C) is shown in Figure 4C. The goal is to manually reconfirm the correctness of each prescription (V) in the medicine bag (W) by the personnel (21), and then report the artificial intelligence unit (Y) so that the artificial intelligence unit ( Y) Confirmation according to the return study; among them, the medicine distribution room (20) refers to the place where the medicine bag (W) is temporarily stored and the medicine bag (W) is confirmed to be delivered to the person who takes medicine (30); and the person ( 21) It is the person who is placed in the medicine distribution room (20), and then confirms the correctness of each prescription (V) of the medicine bag (W), and assists in the distribution of the medicine bag (W); the artificial intelligence unit (Y) refers to the reason The intelligence shown by the machines made by humans. Usually artificial intelligence refers to the technology that presents human intelligence through ordinary computer programs. At present, artificial intelligence has made preliminary results, and even some unilateral capabilities such as image recognition, language analysis, and board games have reached a level that surpasses humans.

Wherein, step D (D) in Figure 1 is to deliver the medicine bag (W) to a medicine picker (30), and repeat the steps A to D.

This step D (D) is shown in Figure 4C, and the purpose is to deliver the medicine bag (W) confirmed in step C (C) to the medicine picker (30), and repeat the above steps to strengthen the recognition ability of the artificial intelligence unit (Y) ; Among them, the person who takes medicine (30) refers to the patient or assisting patient, who is the person who takes the medicine bag (W).

Above, the artificial intelligence unit (Y) trains the discrimination ability according to the state of the prescription drug (V) in the step B and the correctness of the prescription drug (V) in the step C.

Wherein, as shown in Figures 4a, 4b and 4c, the medicine bag (W) of this embodiment is moved from the medicine dispensing room (10) to the medicine dispensing room (20) by a conveyor belt device (40).

Please refer to Figure 2, which is the second embodiment of a drug identification method of the present invention. The features described in the first embodiment and Figures 1, 4a, 4b, and 4c are the same as those in Figure 2. The symbols or omissions in Figure 2 will not be repeated. The main method difference between the second embodiment and the first embodiment is to add display devices (12, 22) in the dispensing room (10) and the dispensing room (20) respectively.

Please refer to the second embodiment described in Figure 2. The present invention is a drug identification method, which includes step A(A), step A1(A1), step B(B), step C(C), step C1( C1) and step D(D).

First, the steps A (A) and 4a of Figure 2 show that a person (11) in a dispensing room (10) places at least one prescription drug (V) in a medicine bag ( W)中.

At the same time as step A(A), step A1(A1) is added. Step A1(A1) is displayed by a display device (12) (as shown in Figure 4a) to present the appearance of the prescription drug (V); accordingly, the prescription drug (V) (V) Appearance reminds personnel (11) Confirmation of taking medicine.

Then, the steps B (B) and 4b of Figure 2 show that a drug bag identification system (X) performs drug identification on the drug bag (W), and compares the prescription (U) to obtain the prescription drug ( V) The confirmation is correct, the confirmation is wrong or the status cannot be confirmed.

Next, steps C (C) and 4c of Figure 2 are based on the prescription drug (V) determination error or unrecognizable status, and a staff member (21) of a drug delivery room (20) re-inspects the drug bag (W) Each prescription (V) is correct, and an artificial intelligence unit (Y) is reported.

At the same time as step C (C), add step C1 (C1), step C1 (C1) A display device (22) (as shown in Figure 4c) presents the appearance of the prescription drug (V); accordingly, the prescription drug (V) appearance reminder (21) to check the prescription drug (V) for confirmation.

Finally, steps D (D) and 4c in Fig. 2 show that the medicine bag (W) is delivered to a medicine picker (30), and these steps A to D are repeated.

Please refer to Figure 3, which is the third embodiment of a drug identification method of the present invention. The features described in the first embodiment and Figures 1, 4a, 4b, and 4c are the same as those in Figure 3. The symbols in Figures 1, 4a, 4b and 4c are marked or omitted and will not be repeated here. The main method difference between the third embodiment and the first embodiment is that step A2 (A2) is added after step A (A), and step C2 (C2) is added after step C (C).

Please refer to the third embodiment described in Figure 3. The present invention is a drug identification method, which includes step A (A), step A2 (A2), step B (B), step C (C), step C2 ( C2) and step D(D).

First, the steps A (A) and 4a of Fig. 3 show that a person (11) in a dispensing room (10) places at least one prescription medicine (V) in a medicine bag according to a prescription (U). W)中.

After step A(A), step A2(A2) is added. Step A2(A2) is confirmed by the medicine bag identification system (X) through a prescription label (U1) on the surface of the medicine bag (W) as the prescription Note (U); in this way, it can prevent the identification trouble caused by the wrong order due to the disorder of the order in step B (B); the prescription label (U1) can be a two-dimensional bar code, and the two-dimensional bar code has a fault-tolerant mechanism even if it is not recognized All the barcodes, or when the barcodes are dirty, the information on the barcodes can be restored correctly.

Then, step B(B) in Figure 3 and Figure 4b are based on a medicine bag identification system (X) Perform drug identification on the medicine bag (W), and compare the prescription note (U) to obtain the correct, incorrect, or unconfirmed status for the prescription drug (V).

Next, steps C (C) and 4c in Figure 3 are based on the prescription drug (V) determination error or unrecognizable status, and a staff (21) of a drug delivery room (20) re-inspects the drug bag (W) Each prescription (V) is correct, and an artificial intelligence unit (Y) is reported.

After step C (C), step C2 (C2) is added. Step C2 (C2) is shown in Figure 4d by a drug bag correction and identification system (Z) to perform drug identification on the drug bag (W). And report the artificial intelligence unit (Y); wherein, the artificial intelligence unit (Y) trains the discrimination ability according to the image of the medicine bag correction and identification system (Z).

Finally, steps D (D) and 4c in Fig. 3 show that the medicine bag (W) is delivered to a medicine picker (30), and the steps A to D are repeated.

In each of the above implementation types, the personnel respond to the reliability status to correct the uncertainty of artificial intelligence, thereby improving the ability to confirm next time. Therefore, the effect of the present invention is different from the general drug identification method. It is the first in drug identification and meets the requirements of a patent for invention, so an application is filed in accordance with the law.

However, it needs to be reiterated that the above are only the preferred implementation modes of the present invention. Any equivalent changes made by applying the specification, patent application scope, or drawings of the present invention still belong to the technical scope protected by the present invention. Therefore, The scope of protection of the present invention shall be subject to those defined by the attached patent scope.

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Claims (7)

A medicine identification method, which includes the steps: Step A: A person in a dispensing room places at least one prescription medicine in a medicine bag according to a prescription note; Step B: A medicine bag identification system performs medicine identification on the medicine bag , Compare the prescription to get the correctness, incorrectness, or unconfirmation status of the prescription drug; the drug bag identification system uses the artificial intelligence unit based on the quantity of the prescription drug, the surface text of the prescription drug, the appearance of the prescription drug or the prescription drug One or more combinations of the colors of prescription drugs are the identification basis; Step C: According to the determination error or unconfirmation status of the prescription drug, a staff of a drug delivery room re-checks the correctness of the prescriptions of the drug bag and reports an artificial intelligence Unit; the artificial intelligence unit trains the discrimination ability according to the state of the prescription drug in step B and re-checking the correctness of the prescription drug in step C; step C2: a drug bag calibration and identification system performs drug identification on the drug bag, and Report the artificial intelligence unit; Step D: Deliver the medicine bag to a medicine picker, and repeat the steps A to D. The method described in item 1 of the scope of patent application, wherein one side of the medicine bag has a transparent, matte or special textured surface structure, so that the medicine bag identification system can implement medicine identification. For the method described in item 1 of the scope of patent application, in step A, the appearance of the prescription drug is presented by a display device. Such as the method described in item 1 of the scope of patent application, wherein after step A, the medicine bag identification system confirms the prescription note through a prescription label on the surface of the medicine bag. For the method described in item 1 of the scope of patent application, in step C, another display device presents the appearance of the prescription drug. The method described in item 1 of the scope of patent application, wherein the medicine bag is moved from the medicine dispensing room to the medicine dispensing room by a conveyor belt device. The method described in item 1 of the scope of patent application, wherein the artificial intelligence unit trains the discrimination ability according to the image of the medicine bag correction and identification system.

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