Secure medicament dispensing cabinet, method and system

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A - Human Necessities

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A61J 7/02 (2006.01) A61J 7/00 (2006.01) B65G 11/20 (2006.01) B65G 49/00 (2006.01)

Patent

CA 2490855

A medicament dispensing cabinet is comprised of a frame, at least one controller, and a plurality of drawers each movably carried by the frame and each defining a plurality of dispensing cells. A plurality of removable dispensing devices is provided with each one carried by one of the dispensing cells. Each of the dispensing cells further comprises a motor for providing rotary motion to one of the removable dispensing devices in response to the controller, a sensor operating in conjunction with the controller for counting medicament dispensed from one of the removable dispensing devices, a chute for receiving medicament dispensed from one of the removable dispensing devices and a chute gate for controlling access to the chute. The cabinet may additionally comprise a chute gate release responsive to the controller for controlling the chute gate and a chute gate sensor connected to the controller and responsive to the position of the chute gate. The cabinet may be used in conjunction with a number of processes including dispensing, secure-pickup (insuring the person picking up the dispensed medicament is authorized to do so), back-end verification (verifying the identity of the person picking up the dispensed medicament), a process for removing a dispensing device from a drawer, and a process for inserting a dispensing device into a drawer.

L'invention concerne un distributeur de médicaments sécurisé, qui comprend un cadre, au moins une unité de contrôle, et plusieurs tiroirs soutenus par le cadre, définissant chacun plusieurs cellules de distribution. En outre, on prévoit un dispositif de distribution amovible par cellule. Chaque cellule comprend aussi un moteur faisant tourner le dispositif considéré, en réaction à l'unité de contrôle, un capteur associé à cette unité pour compter les médicaments distribués par un dispositif, une glissière recevant les médicaments, et une grille de glissière contrôlant l'accès à la glissière. Par ailleurs, le distributeur peut comprendre un libérateur de grille de glissière réagissant à l'unité de contrôle, pour contrôler la grille, et un capteur de grille de glissière relié à ladite unité et réagissant à la position de la grille. On peut utiliser le distributeur en liaison avec diverses opérations: distribution, collecte sécurisée (vérification que la personne récupérant les médicaments est dûment autorisée à la faire), vérification à la sortie (vérification de l'identité de la personne récupérant les médicaments), retrait d'un dispositif de distribution dans un tiroir, et insertion de ce dispositif dans un tiroir.

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