Abstract
At Community pharmacies, many of the medical errors are mistakes at the time of picking medicines. Project Collect Medical Near-miss/Adverse Event Information also reports that 25.3 percent of all the medical errors are the stakes at the time of picking medicines. Based on input data of medical prescriptions, our pharmacy developed and introduced a system for checking information on Personal Digital Assistant (below regarded as PDA) in 2004, and achieved an effect to reduce mistakes. In the view of costs, however, the system has not yet been introduced to all of pharmacy. Therefore, so that even relatively small pharmacies can introduce the system easily, the system was transplanted into smart devices, and evaluated. For reading of barcodes, an attached camera in the smart devices was used. The result said that the percentage of mistakes at the time of picking medicines for the transplanted system is not erent from mistakes for the existed PDA system, and the transplanted system can also be operated without problems in the view of safe. It is thought that this idea could reduce costs of introducing picking systems, and lower barrier of introduction that many pharmacies have.
