PHARMACEUTICAL INVENTORY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, AND PHARMACEUTICAL INVENTORY MANAGEMENT METHOD

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To permit an acceptance of a return request and a resale of pharmaceutical from a medical institution by grasping and recording the surrounding environment of the pharmaceuticals during custody in the medical institution and during movement and associating the result with a physical distribution/transaction/return system.;SOLUTION: A pharmaceutical inventory management system includes: environment maintenance custody means having a custody of the pharmaceuticals while maintaining environment conditions according to pharmaceuticals; custody environment detection means for acquiring information on environment conditions in the environment maintenance custody means; custody state detection means for detecting that the pharmaceuticals are in custody by the environment maintenance custody means; and return determination means for determining the advisability of a return of the pharmaceuticals from the detection information by the custody environment detection means and the custody state detection means. The return determination means determines advisability of the return of the pharmaceuticals based on the time in which the pharmaceuticals are exposed to an environment out of environment conditions and/or a degree by which the pharmaceuticals are out of the environment conditions.;SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 3;COPYRIGHT: (C)2018,JPO&INPIT