China's first robot automated drug delivery line "start"

Seeing the sick to get the medicine, no longer need to wait in line to wait for the pharmacist to look for in the medicine cabinet; The doctor does not need the blood that the caregiver took a trip trip to the inspection department ... Reporter yesterday visited Drum Tower Hospital found that the drug distribution and Delivery, specimen inspection and so on have been fully realized "automation." China's first automated drug delivery line "start", drugs "take the train" self-Benbing District Inpatients need a lot of medication, and every morning when the attending physician kicks in the prescription, the caregiver goes back and forth between the hospital building and the pharmacy to deliver the medicine. In the Drum Tower Hospital, this scene has become "history", the entire ward building can not see a rapid running carrying drugs care workers. The reporter saw in the central negative pharmacy of the hospital ground floor that the drugs required for the ward could get on the train and obey the Directive obediently and obediently from the central pharmacy to each ward. In the side of the pharmacy placed a few computers, from time to time came "drops" sound, "This is the doctor's prescription information received." Pharmacology Department deputy director Zhang Bin told reporters that staff received the information, the first Time will print out the prescription, for review, adjustment, packing. Each box has a bar code on the bar code on the prescription and implementation of the binding, the staff will be placed on the automatic transport case orbit, run to the stratified mouth, the bar code scanner will also be automatically scan code recognition , And quickly make a judgment as to which medicine box should be sent to which ward. When they reach the transfer station on the 6th floor, they will go to their respective wards according to the judgment before the "code scanner". "To put it plainly, Just like the train on the tracks, to the designated site, the train will automatically stop. "Zhang Bin introduction, soon arrived at the ward chest, the nurse station will have a" trickle "sound, on duty nurses will scan the drug again Box bar code, check the information related to the medicine box. When the medicine chest is empty, you will take the "train" and return to the center pharmacy for the other dispatch. In addition to taking the medicine by "train", patients also enjoy the same "treatment" of specimen transport such as blood, stool and urine. "This is the credit for the first automated drug delivery line in the domestic medical system, with all the tracks hidden in dedicated tunnels in the building, which are several kilometers long." Zhang Bin said that automating the delivery of drugs not only greatly releases manpower but also ensures that drugs Transport safety. "Robot" stomach hides 40,000 boxes of drugs, easily get an hour 450 prescriptions Gulou Hospital new building 2-5 layer outpatient, each floor has outpatient pharmacies, but the huge pharmacy, only four pharmacists, including the delivery window has three, they are responsible for reviewing prescriptions, issuing drugs, the patient medication guide. Another pharmacist is responsible for the drug basket into the "robot" spit medicine mouth, take the medicine after the basket placed in the pre-swinging medicine rack, pharmacists for the delivery window services. How does a pharmacy without a pharmacist actually work? This reporter saw the center of the pharmacy is a huge smart medicine cabinet, medicine cabinet is divided into hundreds of intervals, each interval there are three tracks, "This is the drug automatically release machine, we also call it a 'robot' It belly can hold more than 40,000 boxes of drugs. "Gulou Hospital Pharmacy Director Ge Weixong introduction. Ge Weihong told reporters that when the outpatient doctor prescribe a good prescription, the patient has not yet come to the pharmacy, the prescribing information has been automatically transmitted to the drug machine information base. Patients will be with the bar code of the registration list to the pharmacy scan, the dispensing machine began to automatically handle, by scanning the cartridge on the bar code to lock the need to issue drugs. After that, the selected drug will enter the "elevator" through a public channel in the middle of the intelligent medicine cabinet and automatically fall into the medicine basket waiting for the bottom. Because the barcode of the medicine basket is scanned with the barcode on the patient's registration form, the patient can receive the window to receive the medicine information after the staff will once again scan the medicine basket filled with the medicine. The entire medication taking process is not More than 1 minute. Patients get the medicine, will receive a medication guide. Ge Weihong told reporters that the Department of Pharmacy Drum Tower Hospital more than 1,000 kinds of drugs have established a medication guide database, "robot" scan to the drug information will also be the first time in the database to retrieve the appropriate drug medication guidance, and in patients with Automatically print out when medicine. "In the past, pharmacies in the same area required seventy-eight pharmacists to keep busy, handling up to 200 prescriptions in an hour, and now the robot can get 450 prescriptions an hour without any mistakes," said Ge Weihong.