Medicine dispensing system and control method thereof

Abstract

A medicine dispensing device including a medicine storage portion for storing a medicine; a medicine discharge portion for discharging the medicine stored at the medicine storage portion; a communication module for communicating with a hospital server; and a control portion for controlling the operation of the medicine storage portion and the medicine discharge portion so as to allow the medicine to be discharged on the basis of prescription information of a prescription received from the hospital server through the communication module.

What is claimed is: 
     
         1 . A medicine dispensing device comprising:
 a medicine storage part configured to store a medicine,   wherein the medicine storage part includes a plurality of medicine dispensing containers;   a medicine discharge part configured to discharge the medicine stored in the medicine storage part;   a communication module configured to receive at least one of a prescription information; and   a control part configured to confirm an information of a position of the plurality of medicine dispensing containers and an information of a type of the medicine which is stored in the plurality of medicine dispensing containers, select at least one of the medicine dispensing containers based on the prescription information and the confirmed information, and determine a medicine dispensing order,   wherein the control part is configured to determine the medicine dispensing order based on whether a fragile medicine will be dispensed, and   wherein the control part is configured to control an operation of the medicine storage part and the medicine discharge part to discharge the medicine of the determined medicine dispensing container.   
     
     
         2 . The medicine dispensing device of  claim 1 ,
 wherein the medicine discharge part comprises a conveying part which is moved up and down,   
     
     
         3 . The medicine dispensing device of  claim 2 ,
 wherein the conveying part is configured to receive the medicine dispensed from the medicine dispensing container and convey the dispensed medicine to a predetermined discharge position of the medicine dispensing device.   
     
     
         4 . The medicine dispensing device of  claim 1 ,
 wherein the control part confirms a number of the fragile medicine which will be dispensed.   
     
     
         5 . The medicine dispensing device of  claim 4 ,
 wherein the control part is configured to determine a reference for determining the medicine dispensing order of the plurality of medicine dispensing containers based on the number of the fragile medicine which will be dispensed.   
     
     
         6 . The medicine dispensing device of  claim 4 ,
 wherein the medicine discharge part comprises a conveying part which is moved up and down,   wherein when there is no the fragile medicine to be dispensed, the control part is configured to determine the medicine dispensing order which is make the conveying part move minimum for receiving the medicine dispensed from the selected medicine dispensing container.   
     
     
         7 . The medicine dispensing device of  claim 4 ,
 wherein when there is at least one of the fragile medicine to be dispensed, the control part confirms whether a breakage-causing medicine capable of breaking the fragile medicine will be dispensed   
     
     
         8 . The medicine dispensing device of  claim 7 ,
 wherein when there is at least one of the breakage-causing medicine to be dispensed, the control part is configured to determine the medicine dispensing order that the breakage-causing medicine is dispensed prior to the fragile medicine which is to be dispensed.   
     
     
         9 . The medicine dispensing device of  claim 7 ,
 wherein when there is at least two of the fragile medicine to be dispensed, the control part is configured to determine the medicine dispensing order based on the size of the fragile medicine which is to be dispensed.   
     
     
         10 . The medicine dispensing device of  claim 9 ,
 wherein the control part is configured to determine the medicine dispensing order such that larger one of the two or more fragile medicines is dispensed first.