摘要 |
A system for filling medication dose packs with oral-solid medication ite ms comprises storage tray drawers each having storage trays. Each storage tr ay stores a specific type of oral-solid medication item. The storage tray dr awers are displaceable to a drawn position to expose the storage trays there of. A table supports dose packs having a plurality of receptacles arranged i n rows, with each receptacle associated with an intake time and date of a pa tient prescription file. A dispensing mechanism has fingers for grasping by suction an oral-solid medication item, and degrees of freedom to displace th e fingers from any one of the storage trays to the dose pack, to transfer th e oral-solid medication items from the storage trays in the drawn position t o the receptacles of the dose pack. A dispenser controller determines the sp ecific types of oral-solid medication items required in the receptacles of t he dose pack as a function of a patient prescription file, and actuates the dispensing mechanism to control displacements and the suction thereof to fil l the dose packs from the patient prescription file. |