2013 Volume 33 Issue 6 Pages 321-326
The Automated Medication Packaging Machine packages prescribed tablet medicines with each single dose. However, when the medicines which are not put in the cabinet or half a tablet are prescribed, pharmacists have to use special tablet tray to allocate the medicine. We architect the tablet counting system for single dose package based on the special tablet tray operation data of the Automated Medication Packaging Machine. This system is developed to decrease the operation time of the special tablet tray. We changed the variety of medicines in the cabinet based on the data. Then, we compared the average number of times that the machine stopped per day, the usage rate of the special tablet tray per prescription and the supplementary rate into the cabinet to before changing. The result showed that the supplementary rate into the cabinet decreased significantly. The other two indexes decreased, too. In addition, an operation time for the special tablet tray was reduced 12.1 seconds per a prescription. These results show that this tablet counting system is useful to dispense prescribed tablet medicines.
