| 摘要 |
A system (17) for retail dispensing of medicinal products comprises a dispensing unit (11), including a dispenser (12), a processing unit (13), a keypad (14) and a printer (16), and a central processing unit (18) under control of a dispensing chemist. A medical practitioner communicates to the CPU (18), for example by means of a digital telephone (19), details of a prescribed medicinal product and obtains an access code and informs a patient of the code. The access code, an address code and a pay code are transmitted by a communication link (20) from the CPU (18) to the processing unit (13). When the patient enters the access code by way of the keypad (14) the appropriate medicinal product is dispensed by the dispenser (12), details personal to the patient having been printed thereon by the printer (16). |
