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Gestion des feuilles à en-tête d'un distributeur Download PDF

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WO2011109862A1
WO2011109862A1 PCT/AU2011/000256 AU2011000256W WO2011109862A1 WO 2011109862 A1 WO2011109862 A1 WO 2011109862A1 AU 2011000256 W AU2011000256 W AU 2011000256W WO 2011109862 A1 WO2011109862 A1 WO 2011109862A1
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blister
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Gerard Stevens
Ian Stevens
Peter Stevens
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Manrex Pty Ltd
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    • G—PHYSICS
    • G16—INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY [ICT] SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR SPECIFIC APPLICATION FIELDS
    • G16H—HEALTHCARE INFORMATICS, i.e. INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY [ICT] SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR THE HANDLING OR PROCESSING OF MEDICAL OR HEALTHCARE DATA
    • G16H20/00—ICT specially adapted for therapies or health-improving plans, e.g. for handling prescriptions, for steering therapy or for monitoring patient compliance
    • G16H20/10—ICT specially adapted for therapies or health-improving plans, e.g. for handling prescriptions, for steering therapy or for monitoring patient compliance relating to drugs or medications, e.g. for ensuring correct administration to patients
    • G16H20/13—ICT specially adapted for therapies or health-improving plans, e.g. for handling prescriptions, for steering therapy or for monitoring patient compliance relating to drugs or medications, e.g. for ensuring correct administration to patients delivered from dispensers

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  • THIS INVENTION relates to the control of as dispenser which automates the loading of blisters of a blister sheet with doses of prescribed medication.
  • Dispensers have been proposed for reducing the time a pharmacist has to spend in loading prescribed doses of medication into the cavities of blisters of a blister sheet Each blister contains medication to be administered to a particular patient at a time and day denoted by the position of the blister on the blister sheet.
  • a foil or a header card is applied to the blister sheet by the pharmacist to seal the contents of the blisters into the blister cavities.
  • the sealed blister sheet commonly referred to as a 'blister package', is then passed to a patient or to a patient-care facility responsible for administering the medication doses to the patient.
  • the first is to print the header card with the appropriate patient and medication information; the second step is to place an unloaded blister sheet in the dispenser and to set it up to deliver in each of the blister cavities the5 medication doses required by a particular medical prescription; and the third step is to seal the header card to the blister sheet so that all of the blister cavities are hermetically closed by a frangible foil backing strip and the blister package has the printed header card attached.
  • An object of this invention is to reduce the risk of an error occurring in the assembly of a blister package.
  • a dispenser for loading the cavities of a blister sheet with prescribed medication doses has: a data-store or bar-code reading device for extracting from a printed header card coded information relating to the medication prescribed for a particular patient; first means to control the dispenser to load the blister cavities with the prescribed doses of medication provided by the coded information; and second means for facilitating the attachment of the header sheet to the loaded blister sheet after the header sheet has been checked to ensure it corresponds to that for whom the prescribed medication in the blister cavities are to be administered.
  • the coded information should at least positively identify the patient and the medication doses which should be contained in the individual cavities of the loaded blister sheet.
  • the header sheet is providing the required coded information from the data-store or bar-code to the dispenser it is held at a particular station until the loading of the blister cavities is completed.
  • This station may comprise a sealer for attaching the header sheet to the blister sheet after the blister cavities have been loaded and before either the blister sheet or the header sheet can be separately removed from the sealer by the pharmacist.
  • a final comparison check is carried out to ensure that the doses actually loaded into each of the blister cavities corresponds to that specified inthe data extracted from the store or the bar code.
  • the printer for producing the printed header sheet and sealer may be provided outside of a casing containing the other components of the dispenser.
  • the printer and the sealer may be components located within the casing of the dispenser.
  • FIGURE 1 shows one arrangement of components of a dispenser with a sealer and a printer contained within a casing of the dispenser;
  • FIGURE 2 shows a second arrangement in which a sealer and a printer are provided externally to a casing containing the other components of the dispenser of figure 1.
  • the block diagram of figure 1 shows a keyboard 1 enabling a pharmacist to transfer to a blank header card information concerning the positive identification of a patient who is to receive medication, and the medication doses which have been prescribed by a doctor to be administered to the patient at specified times on different days of the week. All of this information is printed by a printer 2 onto a blank header card obtained from a holder 3.
  • a printed header card 4 so produced provides sufficient visual information concerning the patient to enable a person entrusted with the responsibility of administering the prescribed medication doses, to check the patient's identity first.
  • the printer 2 also provides at a location 6 on the card 4 the coded data in the form of a binary code or other form of data store.
  • the printed card 4 is positioned at a code-reading station 5 forming part of a dose dispenser 7 shown within the broken outline, to enable the data store 6 to be read by a decoding device 8 which controls operation of a controller 9 and a ring of dose-storage containers 10.
  • Each of the storage containers 10 has a controlled bottom opening (not shown) through which one or more medication doses can be released in accordance with information provided by the decoder 8.
  • a specified type of medication dose identified by a further binary code on the outside of the container 10 enables the container contents to be checked for correctness when it is at a dose-discharge position and prior to it releasing a prescribed dose of medication.
  • Circuitry (not shown) is also provided for calculating the number of medication doses still remaining in the container 10 at any particular time during loading of medication doses into a blister cavity of a blister sheet. All of this information may be conveniently displayed with any other required information, on a screen 113 located on the dispenser 7 at a position in front of the operator.
  • One example of such other information is a warning that, according to information obtained from the code reader 5 or some other source, the patient has an allergic reaction to a particular medication.
  • the open blister sheet is transferred to a sealer 12 which also receives the printed header sheet 4 from the code reader 5.
  • the sealer 12 applies the printed header sheet 4 to the blister sheet to seal the medication doses into the cavities of the blisters in a manner known in the art to provide a sealed blister package can then be passed to the patient.
  • the movements of the blister sheet and the header card to the sealer 12 are automatically controlled so that there is no human intervention involved between the time the header card is printed and the time the hermetically sealed blister package emerges from the sealer 12.
  • the dispenser has the components providing the keyboard , the printer 2', a holder 3' for blank header cards, and a sealer 12' for attaching a printed header card to a loaded blister sheet, arranged outside a dispenser casing 7 ⁇ shown in broken outline, and containing the remaining components of the dispenser. Modifications to the above-described examples of the invention.
  • the arrangement of the containers in a ring rotatable in steps about its axis to bring a particular container to the dose-discharge position may be replaced by other arrangements of containers.
  • the containers may be stacked vertically above one another as is described in our Australian Patent No. 2001261921.
  • the containers may be arranged in a horizontal rectilinear formation and indexing mechanisms used to bring a particular container to a dose-discharge position.
  • the containers are stationery and the doses released from them are collected in a temporary holding chamber which may be ' moveable from container to container and only stopping beneath one of them when it is identified as holding a dose required by the cavity to be loaded.
  • the blister cavity which is to receive the doses is located at a dose-loading position at a level beneath the holding chamber in readiness to receive its held doses as soon as they have all been collected.

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Abstract

Cette invention concerne un distributeur comprenant un carter (7) contenant un certain nombre de composants dont une imprimante (2) qui permet à un pharmacien d'entrer à partir d'un clavier (1) des informations concernant un patient particulier. Ces informations concernent l'identité du patient et les doses de médicament qui doivent être administrées audit patient à des heures particulières, des jours particuliers, selon la prescription du médecin. Un bac (3) de cartes à en-tête vierges (3) est contenu dans le carter (7) et permet à l'imprimante (2) de générer une carte à en-tête (4) contenant toutes les informations ci-dessus sous la forme d'un code-barres (6). Le distributeur charge les doses de médicament prescrites dans les alvéoles d'une feuille de blisters et une fois le chargement terminé, la feuille de blisters dont les alvéoles sont chargés mais ouverts est transférée dans une thermoscelleuse (12). La carte à en-tête imprimée (4) est elle aussi transférée dans la thermoscelleuse (12) et une fois la justesse des doses de médicament vérifiée, la carte à en-tête est jointe à la feuille de blisters pour terminer l'assemblage feuille de blisters chargés et thermoscellés/ carte à en-tête (4) jointe. Le conditionnement sous blisters, ainsi formé, peut ensuite être libéré par le distributeur. L'avantage du distributeur est que le pharmacien ne peut pas intervenir dans l'assemblage du conditionnement sous blisters de sorte que le risque d'erreur humaine est réduit, voire complètement éliminé.
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AU2010901016 2010-03-11
AU2010901016A AU2010901016A0 (en) 2010-03-11 Header Sheet Control of Dispenser

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WO2013016757A1 (fr) * 2011-08-04 2013-02-07 Manrex Pty. Ltd. Améliorations se rapportant à l'impression

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WO2006055515A1 (fr) * 2004-11-15 2006-05-26 The Escher Group, Ltd. Systeme et procede de distribution, de tri et de livraison par voie postale de medicaments sur ordonnance ou sans ordonnance

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US5963453A (en) * 1996-11-25 1999-10-05 Medication Management, Inc. System and method for processing prescription medications
US20010017817A1 (en) * 1997-03-28 2001-08-30 Carlos De La Huerga Product labeling method and apparatus
US6449921B1 (en) * 2001-04-16 2002-09-17 Jv Medi Co., Ltd. Tablet supplying and packaging apparatus having turntable and tablet cassettes
US20050131733A1 (en) * 2001-12-17 2005-06-16 Allen Lubow Sealable individual bar coded packets
WO2006055515A1 (fr) * 2004-11-15 2006-05-26 The Escher Group, Ltd. Systeme et procede de distribution, de tri et de livraison par voie postale de medicaments sur ordonnance ou sans ordonnance

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WO2013016757A1 (fr) * 2011-08-04 2013-02-07 Manrex Pty. Ltd. Améliorations se rapportant à l'impression
US9308744B2 (en) 2011-08-04 2016-04-12 Manrex Pty Ltd. Blister package printer
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