摘要 |
PURPOSE: To automatically discriminate each medicine by preparing a data base for registering the appearance condition of each brand, inquiring a preparing medicine to be inspected by a computer by using its appearance condition as a retrieving item and specifying the brand name of the medicine by the matching of retrieval. CONSTITUTION: One component of propionic acid group antipyretic/analgesics, e.g., is selected from an indication list issued from Japanese Pharmacist Association, the constitutional formula part of the medicine is converted into image data, the other noun part is convered into a free keyword to electronically express the medicine data, and while referring to formulation identification codes described at the end of Japanese pharmaceutical list, electronic identification recording data such as a mark and a symbol in each brand are prepared. Physical measuring data consisting of the weight, maximum diameter, color, capsule size of each medicine brand are electronically stored and these data are identified by a bar code in each product. When a formulation characteristic is used as a retrieving item and inputted to a computer 1 to 4 by manual operation, a completely coincident product name is retrieved from an existing data base, the product name can be specified. |