2002 Volume 22 Issue 1 Pages 137-139
Medicine can be inputted automatically for hospitalized patients if the following two computer programs are developed.
The first computer program is the following. If we input medicine into the computer, the automatic tablet-packing machine will pack the medicine for only one day.
So if we input medicine today, the machine will pack the medicine for one day by the first program.
The second program is the following. If we do not input tomorrow’s medicine by midnight today, tomorrow’s medicine will automatically be the same as today’s medicine.
Then the machine will pack tomorrow’s medicine for one day again by the first program tomorrow.
Even if we do not operate the computer at all, the medicine will automatically be packed every day forever.
We usually prescribe medicine for 7 days at one time for hospitalized patients. Even if we find out that the medicine is not effective two days after we have prescribed the medicine, we usually do not change the medicine until the patient takes all the medicine for 7 days, because changing medicine is a lot of work. In my one-day prescription idea, we can change the medicine whenever we want to. So we can always prescribe the most effective medicine.
