Patent Publication Number: US-2011060448-A1

Title: Medicine management method

Description:
TECHNICAL FIELD 
     The present invention relates to a medicine management method in a medicine dispensation operation where a dispensation operator such as a nurse gets and prepares medicines. 
     BACKGROUND ART 
     As a conventional dispensation support, there has been a medicine setting system for supporting procurement of medicines corresponding to a prescription (e.g. refer to Patent Document 1).  FIG. 32  is a schematic constitutional view of the medicine setting system.  FIG. 33  is a display example of an information processor in a medicine setting system of Patent Document 1. 
     In  FIG. 32 , an information processor  2  in a medicine setting system  1  has a bar code reader  3 . First, a bar code of an injection prescription  4  is read for performing dispensation. Based upon the read bar code information, the information processor  2  inquires of a server  5  about medicine information. The server  5  receives the bar code information, and searches a medicine information management table. The server  5  then transmits medicine information of the injection prescription as a search result to the information processor  2 . As shown in  FIG. 33 , the information processor  2  displays the received medicine information in divided windows. A special medicine tray  6  installed previously is sectioned into nine regions  6   a . On the screen of the information processor  2 , the received medicine information is displayed in nine regions  6   a  divided in correspondence to that sectioning. 
     In the above situation, a dispensation operator such as a nurse brings corresponding medicines (not shown) while viewing the display of the medicine information on the screen of the information processor  2 . The operator then sets the medicines in the regions of the medicine tray  6  which correspond to the screen regions of the information processor  2 . 
     In such a manner, an accurate dispensation operation is performed by use of the medicine setting system  1 . However, in a hospital, there often occurs a modification or cancellation of an issued prescription in the process of dispensation based upon the prescription. 
     When such a modification or cancellation of a prescription occurs, a medicine withdrawing operation is performed so as to reuse the cancelled medicine. The dispensation operator needs to manually perform the withdrawal operation from the cancelled prescription. In this case, the dispensation operator looks for the medicine tray corresponding to the cancelled prescription. This operation is laborious since being performed by a human operator. Further, it may cause an error. 
     Moreover, in determining whether or not a medicine is a reusable withdrawal medicine from the cancelled prescription, the dispensation operator may make an error of determining a reusable withdrawal medicine as a disposal medicine. For example, a requiring cool medicine that needs to be kept cool taken out of a cool box is not reusable and becomes a disposal medicine when being in a normal-temperature environment for a certain period of time. The dispensation operator can make an accurate determination on a withdrawal medicine when knowing a normal-temperature operation time for the requiring cool medicine being in the normal-temperature environment after taken out of the cool box. 
     However, in the conventional medicine management system such as the medicine setting system  1 , dispensation operation information has not been sufficiently managed, and hence the dispensation operator does not know management information such as the normal-temperature operation time for the medicine, and may determine even a withdrawal medicine as a disposal medicine in view of the safety. This means that the reusable withdrawal medicine is treated as the disposal medicine, and this leads the hospital to incur an economic loss. 
     There has been a problem with the use of the conventional medicine management system in performing the withdrawal operation, since dispensation operation information has not been sufficiently managed with respect to each prescription, namely, with respect to each patient, an accurate withdrawal operation cannot be performed. 
     PRIOR ART DOCUMENT 
     Patent Document 
     [Patent Document 1] Unexamined Japanese Patent Publication No. 2004-70803 
     DISCLOSURE OF THE INVENTION 
     The present invention is to solve this problem, and provide a medicine management method for accurately specifying a medicine container, cancellation of which has occurred, and sufficiently managing information in performing a withdrawal operation. 
     A medicine management method of the present invention is a medicine management method, including: a prescription generating step of generating a prescription direction, which includes a prescription code and dispensation direction information, in a prescription generating section; and a dispensation operation step of communicating with a dispensation managing section, by sending dispensation information regarding each medicine container dispensed based upon the prescription direction, while making the dispensation information correspond to the medicine container and the prescription code, and updating management information of the dispensation managing section, wherein the method includes a withdrawal operation step of specifying the medicine container that corresponds to a prescription code cancelled in accordance with the management information at the time of cancellation of the prescription direction in the dispensation operation step, and directing withdrawal process on the medicine container based upon cancellation information. 
     According to this method, it is possible to specify a cancelled medicine container and perform accurately a withdrawal process, so as to reduce medicine withdrawal errors. 
    
    
     
       BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS 
         FIG. 1  is a flowchart for a medicine management method in an embodiment 1 of the present invention. 
         FIG. 2  is a conceptual view of a medicine management system in the embodiment 1. 
         FIG. 3  is a flowchart for medicine management, with a dispensation operation step divided into a plurality of steps, in the embodiment 1. 
         FIG. 4  is a block diagram of the medicine management system in the embodiment 1. 
         FIG. 5  is a flowchart for an occurrence of prescription in a prescription generating section in the embodiment 1. 
         FIG. 6  is a schematic constitutional view of a medicine supplying section in the embodiment 1. 
         FIG. 7  is a view for explaining a medicine supply of the medicine supplying section in the embodiment 1. 
         FIG. 8  is a flowchart for a medicine supply of the medicine supplying section in the embodiment 1. 
         FIG. 9  is a schematic constitutional view of a medicine procuring section in the embodiment 1. 
         FIG. 10  is a view showing a display screen of a procurement display of the medicine procuring section in the embodiment 1. 
         FIG. 11  is a view showing a brief overview of a container correspondence display of the medicine procuring section in the embodiment 1. 
         FIG. 12  is a flowchart for a medicine procurement and a procurement inspection in the medicine procuring section in the embodiment 1. 
         FIG. 13  is a schematic constitutional view of a medicine mixing section in the embodiment 1. 
         FIG. 14  is a flowchart for a medicine mixture and a mixture inspection in the medicine mixing section in the embodiment 1. 
         FIG. 15  is a schematic constitutional view of a medicine delivering section in the embodiment 1. 
         FIG. 16  is a flowchart for a delivery operation of the medicine delivering section in the embodiment 1. 
         FIG. 17  is a flowchart for a progress inquiry in a progress inquiring section in the embodiment 1. 
         FIG. 18  is a flowchart for updating information of a medicine managing section in the embodiment 1. 
         FIG. 19  is a schematic constitutional view of a medicine withdrawing section in the embodiment 1. 
         FIG. 20  is a flowchart showing a brief overview of a withdrawal operation of the medicine withdrawing section in the embodiment 1. 
         FIG. 21  is the first flowchart for a withdrawal operation of the medicine withdrawing section in the embodiment 1. 
         FIG. 22  is the second flowchart for the withdrawal operation of the medicine withdrawing section in the embodiment 1. 
         FIG. 23  is the third flowchart for the withdrawal operation of the medicine withdrawing section in the embodiment 1. 
         FIG. 24  is the fourth flowchart for the withdrawal operation of the medicine withdrawing section in the embodiment 1. 
         FIG. 25  is the fifth flowchart for the withdrawal operation of the medicine withdrawing section in the embodiment 1. 
         FIG. 26  is the sixth flowchart for the withdrawal operation of the medicine withdrawing section in the embodiment 1. 
         FIG. 27  is the seventh flowchart for the withdrawal operation of the medicine withdrawing section in the embodiment 1. 
         FIG. 28  is a diagram showing a medicine management table in the embodiment 1. 
         FIG. 29  is a front view of a cancelled medicine in the embodiment 1. 
         FIG. 30  is a diagram showing a cancelled medicine management table in the embodiment 1. 
         FIG. 31  is a flowchart for a return operation of the medicine procuring section in the embodiment 1. 
         FIG. 32  is a schematic constitutional view of a conventional medicine setting system. 
         FIG. 33  is a display example of an information processor in the conventional medicine setting system. 
     
    
    
     DESCRIPTION OF EMBODIMENTS 
     Hereinafter, an embodiment of the present invention is described with reference to drawings. It is to be noted that in the following descriptions, the same constitutional components are provided with the same reference marks, and hence the descriptions thereof may be omitted. 
     Embodiment 1 
       FIG. 1  is a flowchart for a medicine management method in the embodiment 1 of the present invention. The medicine management method of the embodiment 1 has a prescription generating step S 01  and a dispensation operation step S 02 . Further, the medicine management method has a withdrawal operation step S 03  of directing a withdrawal process on a medicine container  92  at the time of cancellation of a prescription direction in the dispensation operation step S 02 . It is to be noted that the medicine container  92  is a container for storing and delivering medicines. 
     The prescription generating step S 01  generates a prescription direction, which includes a prescription code and dispensation direction information, in a prescription generating section. 
     The dispensation operation step S 02  dispenses medicines to each medicine container  92  based upon each prescription direction, respectively. Dispensation information in regard to the dispensation is then communicated to a dispensation managing section  11 , in relation to the medicine container  92  and the prescription code of the prescription direction, so as to update management information of the dispensation managing section  11 . 
     When a prescription direction is cancelled in the dispensation operation step S 02 , the withdrawal operation step S 03  obtains a cancelled prescription code and cancellation information. The medicine container  92  corresponding to the cancelled prescription code is then specified by the use of the management information. A withdrawal process on the cancelled medicine container  92  specified is directed, based upon the cancellation information. 
     In this medicine management method, the cancelled prescription code, the cancellation information and the medicine container are linked. In the case of performing the withdrawal process on the cancelled medicine container  92 , the withdrawal process on the medicine container  92  is performed, based upon the cancellation information. 
     It should be noted that the cancellation information means contents of a cancellation direction to a prescription, and includes a name of a cancelled medicine and the number thereof. 
     The withdrawal operation step S 03 , for example, determines, in the withdrawal process, whether or not a medicine in the cancelled medicine container  92  corresponds to a withdrawal medicine, based upon the management information and the cancellation information of the medicine container  92 . 
     For example, the management information includes information of the storage medicines, which indicates medicine names stored in the medicine container  92  and the number of each medicine name. This storage medicine information is compared with the cancellation information, so as to determine from the medicine name whether or not a cancelled medicine in the medicine container  92  is a withdrawal medicine. Then, an accurate determination is possible even in a situation where all medicines in the prescription have not been procured in the medicine container due to the dispensation operation in progress. 
     There further is a medicine, regarding which accurate determination as to whether or not the medicine corresponds to a reusable withdrawal medicine cannot be made only in accordance with its medicine name and the cancellation information. With use of dispensation progress information in the management information, it is possible to determine whether or not the cancelled medicine is reusable. For example, when a mixture medicine has already been mixed, the mixed medicine is determined not as a withdrawal medicine but as a disposal medicine. For example, when a requiring cool medicine that needs to be kept cool is in the normal-temperature environment for a long period of time, the requiring cool medicine is determined not as a withdrawal medicine but as a disposal medicine. 
     Moreover, the withdrawal operation step S 03 , for example, shows the cancellation information on the cancelled medicine container  92 , as a withdrawal process. An ID code of the cancelled medicine container  92  is obtained in a place where the withdrawal operation is performed, and the cancellation information linked to this ID code of the medicine container  92  is showed. This makes a withdrawal person know the cancellation information of the cancelled medicine container  92 , thereby to accurately withdraw a medicine. 
     Furthermore, the withdrawal operation step S 03 , for example, determines, as the withdrawal process, whether each medicine in the cancelled medicine container  92  corresponds to a withdrawal medicine, corresponds to a disposal medicine, or corresponds to a non-cancelled medicine, based upon the management information and the cancellation information of the medicine container. 
     In the case of occurring a cancellation, it is possible to classify at once each medicine held in the medicine container  92  to one among a withdrawal medicine, a disposal medicine and a non-cancelled medicine. 
     Next, the medicine management system in the embodiment 1 is described in detail.  FIG. 2  is a conceptual view of the medicine management system in the embodiment 1. It is to be noted that in the following drawings, a solid line indicates that information is mutually exchangeable. 
     As shown in  FIG. 2 , the medicine management system  12  of the embodiment 1 has a prescription generating section (not shown), a progress inquiring section (not shown), a medicine supplying section  14 , a medicine procuring section  15 , a medicine mixing section  16 , a medicine withdrawing section  17 , a medicine delivering section  18 , and a dispensation managing section  11 . 
     The prescription generating section is an apparatus, located in a medical office  13 , for a doctor making a prescription and generating a prescription direction to a patient. The progress inquiring section is an apparatus, also located in the medical office  13 , for inquiring a progress status and clarifying the progress status. The medicine supplying section  14  automatically supplies a medicine based upon a prescription. The medicine procuring section  15  is an apparatus for replenishing and procuring a medicine that cannot be automatically supplied in the medicine supplying section  14 . The medicine mixing section  16  is an apparatus for mixing at least either a medicine supplied in the medicine supplying section  14  or a medicine procured in the medicine procuring section  15 . The medicine withdrawing section  17  is an apparatus for withdrawing a medicine subjected to the dispensation operation in the case of a cancellation of the prescription, or in some other case. The medicine delivering section  18  is an apparatus for delivering medicines among the apparatuses in the medicine management system  12 . The dispensation managing section  11  is an apparatus for managing information among these apparatuses. 
     Further, the medicine management system  12  uses a medicine container  92  for performing a medicine dispensation operation. Specifically, a medicine tray is used. This medicine container  92  is equipped with an RFID tag having a specific ID code. In other words, the medicine container  92  is equipped with an identification tag element having an identification code. The medicine management system  12  uses the medicine container  92  in the entire system. One medicine container  92  moves to one among the medicine supplying section  14 , the medicine procuring section  15 , the medicine mixing section  16 , the medicine withdrawing section  17  and the medicine delivering section  18 . A variety of the dispensation operations are performed on the medicine container  92 . It is to be noted that the medicine container  92  may be a medicine storage container that stores and delivers medicines, and may be a medicine bag for delivery or a box for delivery, for example. 
     A series of flow of the medicine management system  12  as thus configured is described with the reference to  FIG. 3 .  FIG. 3  is a flowchart for a medicine management with a dispensation operation step divided into a plurality of steps. 
     In  FIG. 3 , first, a prescription generating step S 11  is performed for generating prescription in the prescription generating section. Next, a medicine supplying step S 12  is performed for automatically supplying a medicine based upon the prescription generated in the medicine supplying section  14 . A medicine delivering step S 13  is then performed for delivering the medicine container  92 , inserted with the supplied medicines, by means of the medicine delivering section  18  or the like. 
     Subsequently, a medicine procuring step S 14  is performed for manually replenishing and procuring a medicine into the medicine container  92  delivered to the medicine procuring section  15 . A procurement inspecting step S 15  is then performed for inspecting whether or not the replenishment and procurement have been completed with accuracy. A medicine delivering step S 16  is performed for delivering the medicine container  92  in the state of having completed the replenishment and procurement without a problem, by means of the medicine delivering section  18  or the like. 
     Thereafter, a medicine mixing step S 17  is performed for taking required medicines out of the medicine container  92  delivered to the medicine mixing section  16 , so as to mix the required medicines in the medicine mixing section  16 . A mixture inspecting step S 18  is performed for inspecting whether or not the medicine mixture has been accurately completed. A medicine delivering step S 19  is then performed for delivering the medicine container  92 , inserted with the medicine in the state of having completed the mixture without a problem, by means of the medicine delivering section  18  to deliver the medicines to a patient. 
     It should be noted that the dispensation operation step S 02  shown in  FIG. 1  means a plurality of dispensation operations performed in a plurality of dispensation operating sections. The plurality of dispensation operations in steps S 12  to S 19  are examples of the step S 02 . 
     Specifically, the dispensation operation step S 02  has at least one among the medicine supplying step S 12 , the medicine delivering step S 13 , the medicine procuring step S 14 , the procurement inspecting step S 15 , the medicine delivering step S 16 , the medicine mixing step S 17 , the mixture inspecting step S 18 , and the medicine delivering step S 19 . 
     The medicine supplying step S 12  automatically supplies medicine in accordance with the prescription direction in the medicines withdrawing section  17  and inserts the medicine into the medicine container  92 . The ID code of the medicine container  92  and the prescription code of the prescription direction are made to have a corresponding relation to each other. The corresponding relation and supply information regarding the medicines inserted into the medicine container  92  are communicated to the dispenation managing section  11 , so as to update management information of the dispensation managing section  11 . In addition, the supply information indicating contents of the medicine supply is one piece of the dispensation information. Further, updating the management information implies storing the updated management information into the dispensation managing section  11 . 
     In the medicine procuring section  15 , the medicine procuring step S 14  checks an authenticated procurement person by comparing with register information. The ID code of the medicine container  92  is identified, and supplementary medicine information on the medicine container  92  is showed, based upon the management information of the dispensation managing section  11  corresponding to the ID code of the medicine container  92 . Procurement information, including procurement person information, is communicated to the dispensation managing section  11 , while being made to correspond to the ID code of the medicine container  92 , to update the management information. In addition, the procurement information indicating contents of the medicine procurement is one piece of the dispensation information. 
     In the medicine procuring section  15 , the procurement inspecting step S 15  checks an authenticated procurement inspector by comparing with register information. Based upon the management information of the dispensation managing section  11  corresponding to the ID code of the medicine container  92 , procurement medicine information procured in the medicine container  92  is showed. Procurement inspection information, including procurement inspector information, is communicated to dispensation managing section  11 , while being made to correspond to the ID code of medicine container  92 , to update the management information. The procurement inspection information indicating contents of procurement inspection is one piece of the dispensation information. 
     In the medicine mixing section  16 , the medicine mixing step S 17  authenticates a mixing person and makes a check by comparing with register information. The ID code of the medicine container  92  is identified, and mixture inspection medicine information on the mixture medicine of the medicine container  92  is showed, based upon the management information of dispensation managing section  11  which corresponds to the ID code of medicine container  92 . Mixture information, including mixing person information, is communicated to dispensation managing section  11 , while being made to correspond to the ID code of the medicine container  92 , to update the management information. In addition, the mixture information indicating contents of medicine mixture is one piece of the dispensation information. 
     In the medicine mixing section  16 , the mixture inspecting step S 18  checks an authenticated mixing inspector by comparing with register information. Based upon the management information of the dispensation managing section  11  corresponding to the ID code of the medicine container  92 , mixture medicine information on the medicine container  92  is showed. Mixture inspection information, including mixing inspector information, is communicated to the dispensation managing section  11 , while being made to correspond to the ID code of the medicine container  92 , to update the management information. In addition, the mixture inspection information indicating contents of mixture inspection is one piece of the dispensation information. 
     The dispensation operation step S 02  can manage dispensation information and dispensation progress with respect to each medicine container  92  even when a plurality of dispensations are performed. In addition, each of the supply information, the procurement information, the procurement inspection information, the mixture information and the mixture inspection information is a part of the dispensation information. 
     Further, when a prescription is cancelled from a medical office or the like where the progress inquiring section and the prescription generating section are located, the medicine container  92  in the dispensation operation of steps S 12  to S 19  at the time is moved to a medicine withdrawing section  17 . Medicines are then withdrawn in an operation step S 20 . It is to be noted that the medicines withdrawn in the step S 20  can be returned to the medicine supplying section  14 , the medicine procuring section  15  or the medicine mixing section  16  by managing the number of withdrawn medicines in the dispensation managing section  11  or the like. 
     Subsequently, details of respective configurations of the medicine management system  12  are described.  FIG. 4  shows a block diagram of the medicine management system  12 . A prescription generating section  21  and a progress inquiring section  22  are located in the medical office  13 . The prescription generating section  21  generates a prescription direction including a prescription code and dispensation direction information based upon prescription given by a doctor to a patient. The progress inquiring section  22  inquires a progress status of the dispensation with respect to the prescription direction. 
     It should be noted that the case is described in the embodiment 1 where a prescription generating section  21  and a progress inquiring section  22  are located in the medical office  13 . However, so long as the operation of the system is considered, these configurations, at least either the prescription generating section  21  or the progress inquiring section  22 , can also be appropriately arranged in another place such as a pharmacy, a medicine room, or a central control room. 
     The prescription generating section  21  has a prescription input device  23 , a prescription communication device  24 , and a prescription display  20 . The prescription input device  23  has a keyboard, a touch panel and the like of a PC for inputting a prescription direction. It should be noted that the prescription direction includes a prescription code and dispensation direction information. The prescription communication device  24  communicates with a supply communication device of the medicine supplying section  14  and a management communication device of the dispensation managing section  11 . The prescription display  20  displays a prescription direction inputted in the prescription input device  23 . The dispensation direction information at this time is information on a dispensation to the patient based upon a prescription of the doctor, and is information related to a dispensation, such as a name of a medicine, the number thereof, and contents of a mixing process thereon. It is to be noted that the number of a medicine is used implying a quantity thereof, and the medicine is used implying a drug. 
     The dispensation managing section  11  is configured of an information management device, such as a server. The dispensation managing section  11  has a management communication device  25 , a management storage device  26  and a management processing device  27 . The management communication device  25  transmits and receives information to and from other devices. The management storage device  26  stores medicine management information. The management processing device  27  is a CPU or the like for performing information processing. 
     The medicine supplying section  14  automatically supplies a medicine in accordance with the prescription direction and inserts the medicine into the medicine container  92 . Further, supply information regarding the medicine inserted into the medicine container  92  is communicated to the dispensation managing section  11 , to update the management information. 
     To that end, the medicine supplying section  14  has supply a medicine storage device  31 , a robot arm  32 , a supply communication device  33 , an RFID reader  34 , and a supply processing device  35 . The supply medicine storage device  31  stores supply medicines. The robot arm  32  carries a medicine from the supply medicine storage device  31  to the medicine container  92 . The supply communication device  33  communicates with each apparatus of the medicine management system  12 . The RFID reader  34  reads an RFID tag of the medicine container  92 . The supply processing device  35  manages each device of the medicine supplying section  14 . 
     The medicine procuring section  15  compares the medicine container  92  taken out of the medicine supplying section  14  with the dispensation direction information, and replenishes a medicine lacking in the medicine container  92 . The medicine procuring section  15  performs medicine procurement and procurement inspection. 
     To that end, the medicine procuring section  15  has a medicine procurement shelf  40 , a medicine container placement section  41 , a person authentication device  42 , a procurement display  43 , a procurement communication device  44 , a bar code reader  45 , and a procurement processing device  46 . The medicine procurement shelf  40  holds medicines therein. The medicine container placement section  41  is a placement section for placing the medicine container  92  thereon. The person authentication device  42  authenticates a procurement person and a procurement inspector. The procurement display  43  shows a variety of information. The procurement communication device  44  communicates information with each apparatus of the medicine management system  12 . The bar code reader  45  reads medicine information on a medicine. The procurement processing device  46  controls each device of the medicine procuring section  15 . 
     In the medicine mixing section  16 , a medicine mixture, which is to mix medicines collected in the medicine container  92  as necessary, and a mixture inspection, which is to inspect the medicine mixture, are performed. 
     To that end, the medicine mixing section  16  has a medicine mixture shelf  50 , a medicine container placement section  51 , a person authentication device  52 , a mixture display  53 , a mixture communication device  54 , a bar code reader  55 , and a mixture processing device  56 . 
     The medicine container placement section  51  is a placement section for placing the medicine container  92  thereon. The person authentication device  52  authenticates a mixing person and a mixing inspector. The mixture display  53  shows a variety of information. The mixture communication device  54  communicates information with each apparatus of the medicine management system  12 . The bar code reader  55  reads medicine information on a medicine. The mixture processing device  56  controls each device of the medicine mixing section  16 . 
     The medicine delivering section  18  delivers the medicine container  92  among the apparatuses of the medicine management system  12 . To that end, the medicine delivering section  18  has a person authentication device  62 , a delivery display  63 , a delivery communication device  64 , an RFID reader  65 , a delivery shelf  66 , a reset button  67 , and a delivery processing device  68 . The person authentication device  62  authenticates a delivery person. The delivery display  63  shows a variety of information. The delivery communication device  64  communicates information with each apparatus of the medicine management system  12 . The RFID reader  65  detects the medicine container  92 . The delivery shelf  66  holds the medicine container  92  therein. The reset button  67  releases a stopped state of the medicine delivering section  18 . The delivery processing device  68  controls each device of the medicine delivering section  18 . 
     The progress inquiring section  22  is an apparatus for a doctor, a nurse and a pharmacist to inquire about a progress status of a dispensation operation. 
     The progress inquiring operation is to show dispensation progress information corresponding to the prescription code in the progress inquiring section  22 , based upon the management information of the dispensation managing section  11  corresponding to the prescription code. 
     To that end, the progress inquiring section  22  located in the medical office  13  has an inquiry input device  71 , an inquiry display  72  and an inquiry communication device  73 . The inquiry input device  71  is inputted with dispensation inquiry information including the prescription code. The inquiry display  72  displays dispensation progress information. The inquiry communication device  73  communicates information with each apparatus of the medicine management system  12 . 
     The medicine withdrawing section  17  is an apparatus for performing an operation to withdraw a cancelled medicine in the case of occurring a cancellation of the whole or part of a prescription direction. 
     The medicine withdrawing operation is to specify the ID code of the medicine container  92  corresponding to the prescription code of the cancelled prescription direction in the medicine withdrawing section  17  when the cancellation of the prescription direction occurs. The operation is to then determine whether or not a medicine in the medicine container  92  corresponds to a withdrawal medicine based upon the cancellation information and the management information on the medicine container  92 . 
     To that end, the medicine withdrawing section  17  has a medicine withdrawal shelf  80 , a medicine container placement section  81 , a person authentication device  82 , a withdrawal display  83 , a withdrawal communication device  84 , and a withdrawal processing device  85 . The medicine withdrawal shelf  80  holds medicines therein. The medicine container placement section  81  is the placement section for placing the medicine container  92  thereon. The person authentication device  82  authenticates a withdrawal person. The withdrawal display  83  shows a variety of information. The withdrawal communication device  84  communicates information with each apparatus of the medicine management system  12 . The withdrawal processing device  85  controls each device of the medicine withdrawing section  17 . 
     Next, an operation of each apparatus is described.  FIG. 5  shows a flowchart for generating prescription in the prescription generating section  21  in the embodiment 1. In the prescription generating section  21 , the prescription generating step S 31  is performed for generating a prescription direction including a prescription code and dispensation direction information inputted from the prescription input device  23 . Next, a medicine is supplied in the medicine supplying section  14 . 
     The medicine supplying section  14  holds and stores a predetermined kind of medicines in the form of a glass bottle, a bottle, an ampule, a vial, and the like in a predetermined supply medicine storage device  31 . In this medicine supplying section  14 , a medicine is supplied from the supply medicine storage device  31  in accordance with the prescription direction of the prescription generating section  21 . The supplied medicine is then inserted into the medicine container  92 . The medicine supplying section  14  records supply information, related to a name of the supply medicine and the number thereof, into the management information of the dispensation managing section  11 . Further, along with the supply information, the medicine supplying section  14  records the prescription code of the prescription direction and an ID code of the medicine container  92  into the management information of the dispensation managing section  11 . It is to be noted that the prescription direction to the medicine supplying section  14  can also be communicated from the prescription generating section  21  to the medicine supplying section  14  through the dispensation managing section  11 . 
       FIG. 6  is a schematic constitutional view of the medicine supplying section  14 , and  FIG. 7  is a view for explaining a medicine supply of the medicine supplying section  14 . 
     As shown in  FIG. 6 , the medicine supplying section  14  has six supply medicine storage devices  31 . A plurality of units of medicines of the same kind are stored in each supply medicine storage device  31 . A belt conveyer  91   a  is configured so as to bring the medicine container  92  placed thereon into the medicine supplying section  14 . 
     Herein, an RFID tag  93  attached to the medicine container  92  records an ID code provided with respect to each medicine container  92 . After the supply has been completion herein, the supply communication device  33  of the medicine supplying section  14  communicates, to the management communication device  25  of the dispensation managing section  11 , supply information related to a name of a supply medicine, the number thereof and a supply time, along with the prescription code of the prescription direction and the ID code of the medicine container  92 . 
     The management information of the dispensation managing section  11  is then updated. The belt conveyer  91   b  carries the medicine container  92 , having been supplied with the medicines in the medicine supplying section  14 , to the outside of the medicine supplying section  14 . 
     This supply operation of the medicine supplying section  14  is described. As shown in  FIG. 7 , the robot arm  32  moves in accordance with a prescription direction. For example, one piece of medicine  95  stored in the supply medicine storage device  94  is taken out and inserted into the medicine container  92 , and one piece of medicine  97  stored in the supply medicine storage device  96  is taken out and inserted into the medicine container  92 . 
     The RFID reader  34  reads the ID code of the RFID tag  93  of the medicine container  92 , and transfers the ID code to the supply communication device  33 . Herein, the RFID reader  34  for reading the RFID tag  93  of the medicine container  92  is an ID code reader for reading the ID code of the medicine container  92 . In addition, the RFID reader  34  is also a reader of the identification tag element. 
     To the RFID tag  93 , not only an RFID tag recorded with an ID code is applied, but a one-dimensional bar code, a two-dimensional bar code, or the like can also be applied. Changing the RFID reader  34  to a bar code reader for reading a bar code is also included in the present invention. 
     Further, to a mechanism for taking the medicines  95 ,  97  out of the supply medicine storage devices  94 ,  96 , not only the articulated type robot arm  32  is applied, but another mechanism for taking out a medicine, such as an orthogonal type robot, may be appropriately applied. Each device in this medicine supplying section  14  is controlled by the supply processing device  35  which is connected to each component. 
       FIG. 8  is a flowchart for medicine supply performed in the medicine supplying section  14 . As shown in  FIG. 8 , in the medicine supplying section  14 , an automatic supply step S 41  is performed for taking supply medicines out of the supply medicine storage devices  94 ,  96  in accordance with the prescription direction, and inserting the medicines into the medicine container  92 . Then a supply communicating step S 42  is performed for making the ID code of the medicine container  92  and the prescription code of the prescription direction have a corresponding relation to each other, to communicate the corresponding relation and supply information regarding the medicines inserted into the medicine container  92  to the dispensation managing section  11 . 
     After the medicine supply has been performed in the medicine supplying section  14 , medicines are procured in the medicine procuring section  15 . The medicine procuring section  15  is an apparatus for comparing the medicine container  92  taken out of the medicine supplying section  14  with the dispensation direction information, to replenish a medicine lacking in the medicine container  92 . Medicines in the dispensation direction information may include medicines corresponding to powerful medicines or poisons, and these are management medicines that require the strict management. It is to be noted that the powerful medicine means a medicine having a vigorous pharmacological action. 
     These management medicines cannot be automatically supplied with ease from the medicine supplying section  14 . Therefore, these medicines are strictly managed in the medicine procuring section  15 . These medicines are required to be replenished and procured by a limited dispensation operator such as a pharmacist or a nurse. Further, an infusion bag with its temperature needed to be controlled is also required to be replenished and procured in the medicine procuring section  15 . It is to be noted that each device of the medicine procuring section  15  is controlled by the procurement processing device  46 . 
       FIG. 9  is a schematic constitutional view of the medicine procuring section  15 . The medicine container  92  is carried by a dispensation operator to the medicine procuring section  15 . The dispensation operator is subjected to a procurement person authentication by means of an iris recognition with use of the person authentication device  42 . 
     First, the person authentication device  42  compares operator information on the dispensation operator, obtained by the iris recognition, with register information. It is then checked whether or not the dispensation operator is a dispensation operator permitted for a replenishment and a procurement, namely a procurement person. The register information are iris information, positions, names, and the like of the pharmacists and the nurses permitted for the operation. When a non-registered dispensation operator performs the authenticating operation, letters “not-permitted” are displayed on the procurement display  43 . When a registered dispensation operator performs the authenticating operation, letters “permitted” are displayed on the procurement display  43 . 
     Herein, to the authentication method performed with the person authentication device  42 , not only the iris recognition is applied, but a fingerprint recognition, a vein recognition or the like can also be applied. Further, a person authentication by means of a security card is also possible although the authentication operation therewith necessitates a little time and effort, and is included in the present invention. It is to be noted that the person recognition is performed by means of the iris recognition in the present embodiment with the aim of constantly and reliably performing the person authentication in consideration of a case where both hands of a procurement person are occupied, a case where the hands are dirty, and some other case. 
     The procurement person permitted for the operation places the medicine container  92  on the dedicated medicine container placement section  41 . The RFID reader  41   a  reads the RFID tag  93  of the medicine container  92 , to obtain the ID code of the medicine container  92 . The procurement communication device  44  communicates with the management communication device  25  of the dispensation managing section  11 , to obtain the management information corresponding to the ID code of the medicine container  92 . 
     It should be noted that the medicine procuring section  15  has a container correspondence display  98  for visually supporting procurement of a medicine. Further, the medicine procuring section  15  has a management medicine shelf case  99  for holding management medicines therein, and a cool shelf case  100  for holding cool medicines that needs to be kept cool therein. Moreover, the medicine procuring section  15  has a button  101  for inputting that the dispensation operator has completed the medicine procurement, or has completed the procurement inspection. 
       FIG. 10  is a view showing a display screen of the procurement display  43  of the medicine procuring section  15 . Based upon the management information of the dispensation managing section  11 , the supplementary medicine information on the medicine container  92  placed on the medicine container placement section  41  is displayed on the procurement display  43 .  FIG. 10  shows the display screen of the procurement display  43 . In the case as shown in  FIG. 10 , medicines to be procured are one piece of medicine A, one piece of medicine B, one piece of medicine C, one piece of medicine D, and one piece of infusion bag E. 
       FIG. 11  is a view showing a brief overview of the container correspondence display  98 . As shown in  FIG. 11 , in the container correspondence display  98 , where and which medicines are to be procured are displayed with display contents corresponding to a size and division of the medicine container  92 . Therefore, the container correspondence display  98  displays in a tripartite manner as shown in  FIG. 11  and each of triangle marks points each of divided places of the medicine container  92 . 
     A procuring operation in the medicine procuring section  15  is described. First, when a procurement person is permitted by the person authentication device  42 , the locks of the management medicine shelf case  99  and the cool shelf case  100  of medicine procurement shelf  40  are released. The procurement person takes required medicines out of the management medicine shelf case  99  and the cool shelf case  100  of the medicine procurement shelf  40 , while referring to the display of the procurement display  43  and the container correspondence display  98 . The procurement person checks a glass bottle or the like of each of the medicines having been taken out to see whether or not each of the medicines is a correct supplementary procurement medicine through the bar code reader  45 . When the medicine, read with the bar code reader  45 , corresponds to the supplementary procurement medicine, the procurement display  43  and the container correspondence display  98  display letters “correct”, and when the medicine does not correspond to the supplementary procurement medicine, those displays display letters “wrong”. When the procurement display  43  and the container correspondence display  98  display letters “correct”, the procurement person inserts the medicine, having been taken out, into a corresponding place to the medicine container  92 . 
     Herein, as for the medicine read with the bar code reader  45 , changing a color of a name of the corresponding medicine in the container correspondence display  98  can facilitate to inform the procurement person of which medicine is currently treated. Further, changing a color of a frame of divided display contents corresponding to the divided place of the medicine container  92  can also facilitate to inform the procurement person of which divided place the medicine is to be procured in. 
     Upon the completion of the procurement of all the medicines, the procurement person presses the button  101 , to complete the procuring operation. The procurement communication device  44  communicates with the management communication device  25  of the dispensation managing section  11 . The procurement information including the procurement person information is communicated to the management communication device  25  of the dispensation managing section  11 , along with the ID code of the medicine container  92 . The management information is then updated. 
     Herein, at least some of a name of the supplementary procurement medicine, the number thereof, and a procurement time and date thereof may be included in the procurement information as necessary. Further, the bar code reader  45  is a medicine code reader for reading a code of a medicine. To the form of a medicine code of a medicine, not only the form of the bar code stuck to a glass bottle or the like is applied, but also a form of the medicine code recorded into another recording body, such as RFID, may be applied, and these configurations are also included in the present invention. 
     Next, the operation is shifted to a procurement inspecting operation. A dispensation operator is subjected to a procurement inspector authentication by means of an iris recognition with use of the person authentication device  42 . The person authentication device  42  compares dispensation operator information of the dispensation operator with register information, to check whether or not the dispensation operator is a dispensation operator permitted for a procurement inspection, namely a procurement inspector. 
     When a non-registered dispensation operator performs the authenticating operation, letters “not-permitted” are displayed on the procurement display  43 . When a registered dispensation operator performs the authenticating operation, letters “permitted” are displayed on the procurement display  43 . 
     When the procurement inspector receives permission for the operation, the procurement communication device  44  obtains from the dispensation managing section  11  management information corresponding to the ID code of the medicine container  92  obtained with use of the RFID reader  34 . Based upon the management information of the dispensation managing section  11 , procurement medicine information of the medicine container  92  placed on the medicine container placement section  41  is displayed on the procurement display  43  and the container correspondence display  98 . This display system is similar to displays for the procurement shown in  FIGS. 10 and 11 . However, the display contents are different from those in  FIGS. 10 and 11  in that a pre-procured medicine previously procured in the medicine container  92  is displayed. 
     The procurement inspector compares the display in the procurement display  43  or the container correspondence display  98  with the procurement medicines in the medicine container  92 , to make a check. When the medicine procurement has been correctly performed, the procurement inspector presses the button  101 , to complete the procurement inspection. As this button  101  used can be a touch panel section installed in part of the container correspondence display  98 , a dedicated input button, or the like. The procurement communication device  44  communicates procurement inspection information including procurement inspector information to the management communication device  25  of the dispensation managing section  11 , along with the ID code of the medicine container  92 . The dispensation managing section  11  then updates the management information. 
     Herein, a name of the procurement medicine, the number thereof, a procurement inspection time and date thereof, or the like may be included in the procurement inspection information as necessary. 
     It is to be noted that, although the procurement inspector is not required to be subjected to the person authentication in the case of the procurement person and the procurement inspector being an identical person, it is preferable to perform another person authenticating operation in the sense of dividing the operation. 
     Further, in order to reduce procurement errors, it is preferable that the procurement person and the procurement inspector be different persons. 
       FIG. 12  is a flowchart for a medicine procurement and a procurement inspection in the medicine procuring section  15 . As shown in  FIG. 12 , in the medicine procuring section  15 , a procurement person authenticating step S 51  is performed for comparing the dispensation operator information of the dispensation operator with the register information, to make a check. The procurement container identifying step S 52  is then performed for identifying the ID code of the medicine container  92 . 
     Subsequently, based upon the management information of the dispensation managing section  11  corresponding to the ID code of the medicine container  92 , a procurement presenting step S 53  is performed for showing the supplementary medicine information on the medicine container  92 . A procurement communicating step S 54  is performed for communicating the procurement information, including the procurement person information, to the dispensation managing section  11 , while making the procurement information correspond to the ID code of the medicine container  92 . 
     Subsequently to the medicine procurement in the medicine procuring section  15 , a procurement inspection is performed. In the medicine procuring section  15 , a procurement inspector authenticating step S 55  is performed for authenticating a procurement inspector and making a check by comparison with register information. Based upon the management information of the dispensation managing section  11  corresponding to the ID code of the medicine container  92 , a procurement inspection presenting step S 56  is performed for showing information of the procurement medicines procured in the medicine container  92 . A procurement inspection communicating step S 57  is performed for communicating the procurement inspection information, including the procurement inspector information, to the dispensation managing section  11 , while making the procurement inspection information correspond to the ID code of the medicine container  92 . 
     Herein, either the procurement person authenticating step S 51  or the procurement container identifying step S 52  may be performed prior to the other. Further, the procurement communicating step S 54  may be performed simultaneously with the procurement inspection communicating step S 57 . In the case of the procurement person and the procurement inspector being identical, the procurement inspector authenticating step S 55  can be omitted. 
     After the medicine procurement and the procurement inspection have been performed in the medicine procuring section  15 , a medicine mixture and a mixture inspection are performed in the medicine mixing section  16 . The medicine mixing section  16  is configured for mixing medicines procured in the medicine container  92  as necessary. The dispensation direction information of the prescription direction includes names of medicines to be mixed and a quantity thereof. The direction information is, for example, the direction of mixing a required quantity of a poisonous medicine into an infusion bag, or the like. Each device in this medicine mixing section  16  is controlled by the mixture processing device  56 . 
       FIG. 13  is a schematic constitutional view of the medicine mixing section  16 . The medicine container  92  is carried by a dispensation operator to the medicine mixture shelf  50  of the medicine mixing section  16 . The dispensation operator is subjected to a mixing person authentication by means of an iris recognition with use of the person authentication device  52 . The person authentication device  52  compares the operator information of the dispensation operator with register information, to check whether or not the dispensation operator is a dispensation operator permitted for mixing operation, namely a mixing person. In the register information registered are iris information, positions, names, and the like of the pharmacists and the nurses permitted for the operation each as the mixing persons. When a non-registered dispensation operator performs the authenticating operation, letters “not-permitted” are displayed on the mixture display  53 . When a registered dispensation operator performs the authenticating operation, letters “permitted” are displayed on the mixture display  53 . 
     The mixing person permitted for operation places the medicine container  92  on the medicine container placement section  51  as the dedicated place. The RFID reader  51   a  reads the RFID tag  93  of the medicine container  92 , to obtain the ID code of the medicine container  92 . The mixture communication device  54  communicates with the dispensation managing section  11 , to obtain the management information corresponding to the ID code of the medicine container  92 . Based upon the management information of the dispensation managing section  11 , the mixture medicine information on the medicine container  92  placed on the medicine container placement section  51  is displayed on the mixture display  53 . 
     Herein, as a display of the mixture medicine information, names of medicines to be mixed, the number thereof, and a mixture procedure therefore are displayed. In addition, a quantity of a medicine may be indicated in place of the number thereof. 
     The mixing person performs the operation in accordance with the mixture medicine information presented in the mixture display  53 . The mixing person takes a medicine out of the medicine container  92 , and checks the name of the medicine with the bar code reader  55 . The mixture medicine information is then presented in the mixture display  53 , and the mixing person mixes the medicine in accordance with the presented mixture information. For example, the mixing person draws a designated quantity of injection into an injector (not shown). Next, the mixing person takes an infusion bag (not shown) out of the medicine container  92 , reads the bar code of the infusion bag with the bar code reader  55 , to check the name of the medicine. The medicine inside the injector is then injected into this infusion bag. Accordingly, the infusion bag is mixed with the medicine. The mixing person returns the infusion bag mixed with the medicine to the medicine container  92 , and disposes of the remaining medicine. 
     Upon completion of the medicine mixture, the mixing person presses the button  59 , to complete the mixing operation. As this button  59  used can be a touch panel section installed in part of the mixture display  53 , a dedicated input button, or the like. The mixture communication device  54  communicates with the dispensation managing section  11 . The mixture information including the mixing person information and the mixing operation contents is communicated to the dispensation managing section  11 , along with the ID code of the medicine container  92 . The dispensation managing section  11  then updates the management information. Herein, in the mixture information including the mixing information, the names of the mixture medicine, the number thereof, the quantity thereof, the mixture time and date thereof and the like may be included as necessary. 
     Next, the operation is shifted to a mixture inspecting operation. A dispensation operator is subjected to a mixing inspector authentication by means of an iris recognition with use of the person authentication device  52  for performing the iris recognition. The person authentication device  52  compares operator information of the dispensation operator with register information, to check whether or not the dispensation operator is a dispensation operator permitted for the mixture inspection, namely a mixing inspector. When a non-registered dispensation operator performs the authenticating operation, letters “not-permitted” are displayed on the mixture display  53 . When a registered dispensation operator performs the authenticating operation, letters “permitted” are displayed on the mixture display  53 . 
     When the mixing inspector receives a permission for the operation, the mixture communication device  54  communicates the ID code of the medicine container  92 , obtained with use of the RFID reader  51   a , to the dispensation managing section  11 . The management information corresponding to the ID code of the medicine container  92  is then obtained. Based upon the management information of the dispensation managing section  11 , the mixture inspection medicine information of the medicine container  92  placed on the medicine container placement section  51  is displayed on the mixture display  53 . 
     The mixing inspector checks the mixture medicine in the medicine container  92  with reference to the mixture inspection medicine information in the mixture display  53 . When the mixture inspection medicine information displayed on the mixture display  53  agrees with the mixture medicine in the medicine container  92 , the mixing inspector presses the button  59 , to complete the mixture inspection operation. The mixture communication device  54  communicates the mixture inspection information including the mixing inspector information to the management communication device  25  of the dispensation managing section  11 , along with the ID code of the medicine container  92 . The dispensation managing section  11  then updates the management information. 
     Herein, the name of the mixture medicine, the checked place thereof, the mixture inspection time and date thereof, or the like may be included in the mixture inspection information as necessary. It is to be noted that the mixing inspector is not required to be subjected to the person authentication in the case of the mixing person and the mixing inspector being an identical person. However, it is preferable to perform another person authentication in the sense of dividing the operation. Further, in order to reduce mixture errors, it is preferable that the mixing person and the mixing inspector be different persons. While the mixture inspection medicine information may be presented as necessary, it is preferable to display check items and check points as the mixture inspection medicine information. This leads to prevent leakages of the mixture inspection. 
       FIG. 14  is a flowchart for the medicine mixture and the mixture inspection in the medicine mixing section  16 . As shown in  FIG. 14 , in the medicine mixing section  16 , a mixing person authenticating step S 61  is performed for authenticating a mixing person and making a check by comparison with register information. Next, a mixture container identifying step S 62  is performed for obtaining the ID code of the medicine container  92 . Subsequently, based upon the management information of the dispensation managing section  11  corresponding to the ID code of the medicine container  92 , a mixture presenting step S 63  is performed for showing the mixture medicine information of the medicine container  92 . Thereafter, a mixture communicating step S 64  is performed for communicating the mixture information, including the mixing person information, to the dispensation managing section  11 , while making the mixture information correspond to the ID code of the medicine container  92 . 
     Subsequently to the mixing operation in the medicine mixing section  16 , the mixture inspection operation is performed. In the medicine mixing section  16 , a mixing inspector authenticating step S 65  is performed for authenticating a mixing inspector and making a check by comparison with register information. Next, based upon the management information of the dispensation managing section  11  corresponding to the ID code of the medicine container  92 , a mixture inspection presenting step S 66  is performed for showing the mixture inspection medicine information of the mixture medicine on the medicine container  92 . A mixture inspection communicating step S 67  is performed for communicating the mixture inspection information, including the mixing inspector information, to the dispensation managing section  11 , while making the mixture inspection information correspond to the ID code of the medicine container  92 . 
     Herein, either the mixing person authenticating step S 61  or the mixture container identifying step S 62  may be performed prior to the other. Further, the mixture communicating step S 64  may be performed simultaneously with the mixture inspection communicating step S 67 . In the case of the mixing person and the mixing inspector being identical, the mixing inspector authenticating step S 65  can be omitted. 
       FIG. 15  is a schematic constitutional view of the medicine delivering section  18 . As shown in  FIG. 15 , the medicine delivering section  18  is an apparatus for placing the medicine container  92  thereon, to deliver the medicine container  92  to a hospital ward, or one among the apparatuses of the medicine management system  12 . 
     The medicine container  92  carried to the hospital ward is not necessarily one on which the medicine mixture and the mixture inspection have been completed in the medicine mixing section  16 . The medicine container  92  not required for the mixing operation is moved from the medicine procuring section  15  directly to the medicine delivering section  18 . The medicine container  92  not required for the replenishing and procuring operations and the mixing operation is moved from the medicine supplying section  14  directly to the medicine delivering section  18 . A plurality of these medicine containers  92  are mixed and moved to the medicine delivering section  18 , and carried to the hospital ward and the like. 
     In the embodiment 1, a delivery cart is used as the medicine delivering section  18 . A dispensation operator (not shown) makes the medicine container  92  close to the RFID reader  65  provided on a handle  107  of the medicine delivering section  18 . The RFID reader  65  reads the RFID tag  93  of the medicine container  92 , to obtain the ID code of the medicine container  92 . The medicine delivering section  18  communicates with the dispensation managing section  11  through the delivery communication device  64 , to obtain the management information corresponding to the ID code of the medicine container  92 . 
     Based upon the management information of the dispensation managing section  11 , a delivery permission/non-permission information on the medicine container  92  is displayed on the delivery display  63 . 
     Herein, the delivery permission/non-permission information is information indicating whether delivery of the medicine container  92  is permitted or not permitted. When the delivery is not permitted, which operation has not been conducted is displayed on the delivery display  63 . The medicine container  92  not permitted for the delivery is returned to a dedicated holding place (not shown) for the non-conducted operation. In addition, each device of the medicine delivering section  18  is controlled by the delivery processing device  68 . 
     The dispensation operator stores the medicine container  92  permitted for the delivery into the delivery shelf  66  of the medicine delivering section  18 . The dispensation operator is authenticated as a delivery person by means of an iris recognition with use of the person authentication device  62 . The person authentication device  62  compares operator information of the dispensation operator with register information, to check whether or not the dispensation operator is a dispensation operator permitted for the delivery operation. The register information may be iris information, positions, names, and the like of the delivery persons permitted for the operation. The medicine delivering section  18  is under breaking and in a stopped state. 
     When a non-registered dispensation operator performs the authenticating operation, the medicine delivering section  18  displays letters “not-permitted” in the delivery display  63 . Further, a brake is locked so that the medicine delivering section  18  is kept in the stopped state. When a registered dispensation operator performs the authenticating operation, the medicine delivering section  18  displays letters “permitted” in the delivery display  63 , and the medicine delivering section  18  is made movable by the delivery person. 
     When a predetermined number of the medicine containers  92  are placed, the delivery person delivers the medicine delivering section  18  to the hospital ward. Further, once the medicine container  92  not permitted for the delivery is detected, the delivery operation is permitted by the person authentication device  62 . Subsequently, unless the delivery person presses a reset button  67 , the medicine delivering section  18  is kept in the stopped state with the brake being locked. The delivery communication device  64  communicates the delivery person information and the delivery information, including a delivery time, to the management communication device  25  of the dispensation managing section  11 . The dispensation managing section  11  then updates the management information. 
       FIG. 16  is a flowchart for the delivery operation performed in the medicine delivering section  18 . As shown in  FIG. 16 , in the medicine delivering section  18 , a delivery container identifying step S 71  is performed for obtaining the ID code of the medicine container  92 . Next, based upon the management information of the dispensation managing section  11  corresponding to the ID code of the medicine container  92 , a delivery presenting step S 72  is performed for showing the delivery permission/non-permission information of the medicine container  92 . Subsequently, a delivery person authenticating step S 73  is performed for comparing the operator information of the dispensation operator with the register information, to make a check. Thereafter, a delivery communicating step S 74  is performed for communicating delivery information, including delivery person information and cart information, to the dispensation managing section  11 , while making the delivery information correspond to the ID code of the medicine container  92 . 
     Herein, the delivery person authenticating step S 73  may be performed before the delivery container identifying step S 71 . Further, the delivery container identifying step S 71  and the delivery presenting step S 72  may be repeatedly performed until a predetermined number of the medicine containers  92  are placed on the medicine delivering section  18 , and thereafter, the delivery person authenticating step S 73  and the delivery communicating step S 74  may be performed. 
     It is to be noted that the medicine supplying section  14 , the medicine procuring section  15 , the medicine mixing section  16 , and the medicine delivering section  18  described above are the dispensation operating sections of the medicine management system  12 . Further, the medicine supply, medicine procurement, the procurement inspection, the medicine mixture, the mixture inspection and the medicine delivery are the dispensation operations performed in the dispensation operating section. Moreover, the automatic supply in the medicine supplying section  14  and the medicine procurement in the medicine procuring section  15  are to collect medicines into the container, and may thus be considered as the medicine collecting operations. 
     Although the medicine supplying section  14  described above is described with regard to the automatic supply of an injection, an automatic powder packaging machine and an automatic tablet packaging machine are also considered as the medicine supplying section  14 . Hence there may be cases where two medicine supplying sections  14  are present. 
     The progress inquiring section  22  shown in  FIG. 4  is an apparatus for an inquiry person such as a doctor, a nurse or a pharmacist to inquire about the progress status of the dispensation operation. The progress inquiring section  22  includes the inquiry input device  71  and the inquiry display  72 . An inquiry person inputs dispensation inquiry information including the prescription code of the prescription direction with use of the inquiry input device  71 , to communicate the information to the dispensation managing section  11  through the inquiry communication device  73 . Based upon the management information on the medicine container  92  made to correspond to the prescription code, the dispensation managing section  11  communicates the dispensation progress information corresponding to the prescription direction to the progress inquiring section  22 . The inquiry display  72  of the progress inquiring section  22  displays the dispensation progress information of the dispensation managing section  11 . Herein, the dispensation progress information is the information representing the progress status of the dispensation based upon the management information of the dispensation managing section  11  which corresponds to the ID code of the medicine container  92 . The information are, for example, the completion of the medicine supply, the completion of the medicine procurement, the completion of the medicine mixture, in process of the delivery, and the like. 
       FIG. 17  is a flowchart for the progress inquiry made in the progress inquiring section  22 . The in progress inquiring section  22 , a progress inquiring step S 81  is performed for communicating the dispensation inquiry information, including the prescription code of the prescription direction, to the dispensation managing section  11 . Based upon the management information of the dispensation managing section  11 , a progress responding step S 82  is performed for informing the dispensation progress information corresponding to the prescription direction. 
     The dispensation managing section  11  shown in  FIG. 4  is an apparatus for recording and managing a variety of information on a series of dispensation operations. The dispensation managing section  11  communicates with each of the prescription generating section  21 , the medicine supplying section  14 , the medicine procuring section  15 , the medicine mixing section  16 , the medicine delivering section  18 , the medicine withdrawing section  17  and the progress inquiring section  22 , to update the required information. The management communication device  25  is linked through a communication network, to the prescription communication device  24 , the supply communication device  33 , the procurement communication device  44 , the mixture communication device  54 , the delivery communication device  64 , the withdrawal communication device  84  and the inquiry communication device  73 . In addition, the communication network may be wired or wireless. 
     The management processing device  27  processes information obtained from devices of the medicine management system  12 , and makes the information correspond to the ID code of the medicine container  92 , to update the prescription code and the management information in the management storage device  26 . The management information includes the dispensation direction information, the supply information, the procurement information, the procurement inspection information, the mixture information, the mixture inspection information, the delivery information, and the withdrawal information. 
     The management processing device  27  passes information of the management storage device  26  to the management communication device  25 , and communicates a variety of information with the prescription generating section  21 , the medicine supplying section  14 , the medicine procuring section  15 , the medicine mixing section  16 , the medicine delivering section  18 , the medicine withdrawing section  17  and the progress inquiring section  22 . 
     Thereby, the prescription code, the dispensation direction information, the supply information, the procurement information, the procurement inspection information, the mixture information, the mixture inspection information, the withdrawal information, the delivery information and the inquiry information, which are made to correspond to the ID code of the medicine container  92 , are updated as part of the management information in management storage device  26 . It is to be noted that in the embodiment 1, storage medicine information is created from the dispensation direction information, the supply information, the procurement information, the procurement inspection information, the mixture information, the mixture inspection information, the withdrawal information and the delivery information, and recorded into the management information. It should be noted that the storage medicine information is medicine names of medicines, held in the medicine container, and the number thereof. 
     In addition, the register information on the person authentication devices in the medicine procuring section  15 , the medicine mixing section  16 , the medicine delivering section  18  and the medicine supplying section  14  may be stored in the dispensation managing section  11 , and the comparison with the authentication information in the person authentication devices may be performed in the management processing device  27 . 
       FIG. 18  is a flowchart for information update of the dispensation managing section  11 . In the dispensation managing section  11 , a management controlling step S 86  is performed for communicating with the medicine supplying section  14 , the medicine procuring section  15 , the medicine mixing section  16 , the medicine delivering section  18 , the progress inquiring section  22  and the medicine withdrawing section  17 . An updating step S 87  is performed for updating, as the management information, the prescription code, the dispensation direction information, the supply information, the procurement information, the procurement inspection information, the mixture information, the mixture inspection information, delivery information, the withdrawal information and the like, while making those information correspond to the ID code of the medicine container  92 . 
     As thus described, according to the medicine management method using the medicine management system  12 , it is possible to manage the dispensation information regarding the dispensation operation and manage the progress of each dispensation operation with respect to each medicine container  92 . Thereby, even when the dispensation operation has been divided into a plurality of operations, it is possible to accurately grasp contents of the dispensation operation performed in each dispensation operating section. 
     The medicine withdrawing section  17  shown in  FIG. 4  is an apparatus for withdrawing a cancelled medicine in the case of a cancellation of the whole or part of the prescription direction. The medicine withdrawing section  17  has the withdrawal processing device  85  and the medicine withdrawal shelf  80 . The withdrawal processing device  85  receives a cancellation of a prescription made by a doctor through the withdrawal communication device  84 . Based upon the prescription code, that the whole or part of the prescription contents of the prescription direction has been cancelled is communicated to the management communication device  25  of the dispensation managing section  11 . Thereby, the dispensation managing section  11  obtains the cancelled prescription code and cancellation information. Herein, as the cancellation information, there is an entire cancellation or a partial cancellation. 
       FIG. 19  is a schematic constitutional view of the medicine withdrawing section  17 . The medicine container  92  is carried by the dispensation operator to the medicine withdrawal shelf  80 . The person authentication device  82  authenticates a withdrawal person by means of an iris recognition. The person authentication device  82  compares authentication information of the dispensation operator with the register information, to check whether or not the dispensation operator is a dispensation operator permitted for a medicine withdrawal, namely a withdrawal person. The register information includes the iris information, the positions, the names, and the like of the pharmacists and the nurses permitted for the operation. When a non-registered dispensation operator performs the authenticating operation, letters “not-permitted” are displayed on the withdrawal display  83 . When a registered dispensation operator performs the authenticating operation, letters “permitted” are displayed on the withdrawal display  83 , and the following operation is permitted. Each device of the medicine withdrawing section  17  is controlled by the withdrawal processing device  85 . 
     The withdrawal person sets the medicine container  92  on the medicine container placement section  81  as the dedicated place. The RFID reader  81   a  reads the RFID tag  93  of the medicine container  92 , to obtain the ID code of the medicine container  92 . The withdrawal communication device  84  communicates with the management communication device  25 , to obtain the management information corresponding to the ID code of the medicine container  92  from the dispensation managing section  11 . Then, based upon the management information of the dispensation managing section  11 , the medicine withdrawal information on the medicine container  92  placed is displayed on the withdrawal display  83 . The medicine withdrawal information is a variety of information for withdrawing a medicine. 
     At this time, on the withdrawal display  83 , the cancellation information including a name of a cancelled medicine and the number thereof is presented as the medicine withdrawal information. 
     When the operation of the withdrawal person is permitted by the person authentication device  82 , the locks of a management medicine withdrawal case  111  and a requiring cool medicine withdrawal case  112  in the medicine dispensation shelf  80  are released. The withdrawal person takes a medicine to be withdrawn out of the medicine container  92 , while referring to the display of the withdrawal display  83 , and makes the bar code reader  88  read the bar code of the medicine which is a glass bottle or the like. 
     When the medicine, read with the bar code reader  88 , corresponds to a withdrawal medicine, the withdrawal display  83  displays letters “withdrawal medicine” as the medicine withdrawal information. When the medicine does not correspond to a withdrawal medicine, the withdrawal display  83  displays letters “disposal medicine” or “non-cancelled medicine” as the medicine withdrawal information. The withdrawal person puts the withdrawal medicine, taken out in the case of the letters being “withdrawal medicine”, into the required shelf case of the management medicine withdrawal case  111  or the requiring cool medicine withdrawal case  112 . 
     In the case of the letters being “disposal medicine”, the withdrawal person performs a disposal process on the medicine in accordance with a disposal direction of the medicine withdrawal information. Upon the completion of the withdrawal operation on the medicine, the withdrawal person presses a button  89 , to complete the withdrawal operation. The withdrawal communication device  84  communicates withdrawal operation information, including withdrawal person information to the dispensation managing section  11 , along with the ID code of the medicine container, to update the management information of the management storage device  26 . Herein, the name of the withdrawal medicine, the number thereof, the withdrawal time and date thereof, or the like may be included in the withdrawal operation information. 
       FIG. 20  is a flowchart showing a brief overview of the medicine withdrawing step S 03 . First, a cancelling step S 91  is performed for communicating to the dispensation managing section  11  that the whole or part of the prescription contents of the prescription direction has been canceled. Next, a container specifying step S 92  is performed for obtaining the ID code of the medicine container  92  which corresponds to the prescription code, based upon the management information of the dispensation managing section  11  which includes the prescription code. 
     When a cancelled medicine container  92  is identified in the medicine dispensation shelf  80 , a cancellation presenting step S 93  is performed for showing cancellation information on the medicine container  92 . 
     The withdrawal person detects the medicine information on the cancelled medicine by means of the bar code with reference to this cancellation display. Then, a determination result as to whether or not each detected medicine is a withdrawal medicine is showed as medicine withdrawal information in the withdrawal display  83 . 
     Thereafter, a cancelled medicine determining step S 94  is performed for determining whether or not the cancelled medicine in the medicine container  92  corresponds to a withdrawal medicine, based upon the management information on the medicine container  92 . Based upon the result of the determination, the medicine withdrawal information is created. A medicine withdrawing step S 95  is then performed for withdrawing the cancelled medicine in accordance with the medicine withdrawal information displayed on the withdrawal display  83 . 
     A withdrawal communicating step S 96  is performed for communicating withdrawal operation information, including the name of the withdrawn medicine and the number thereof, to the dispensation managing section  11 , while making the information correspond to the ID code of the medicine container  92 . 
     As thus described, in the dispensation operation, when a cancellation of the prescription direction occurs, the medicine container  92  corresponding to the prescription code of the prescription direction cancelled is specified. The medicine withdrawing section  17  determines whether or not a medicine in the medicine container  92  corresponds to a withdrawal medicine, based upon the management information on the medicine container  92 . Further, the medicine withdrawal information on the medicine container  92  is showed, based upon the management information. 
     The medicine withdrawal information includes the result of determination as to whether or not each detected medicine is a withdrawal medicine. As thus described, the medicine withdrawal section  17  shows the withdrawal medicine, then the cancelled medicine can be reused. 
     It should be noted that the withdrawal operation step S 03  has the cancelled medicine determining step S 94 . The cancelled medicine determining step S 94  as the withdrawal process, for example, determines whether or not a medicine in the cancelled medicine container  92  corresponds to a withdrawal medicine, based upon the management information and the cancellation information on the medicine container  92 . 
     Some medicines cannot be accurately determined, just based upon the cancellation information, as to whether or not the medicine corresponds to a reusable withdrawal medicine. The management information is thus used to determine whether or not the cancelled medicine is reusable. It is possible to perform an accurate determination on the cancelled medicine, on which the determination is difficult just based upon the cancellation information. 
     Further, the withdrawal operation step S 03  has the cancellation presenting step S 93  which, for example, presents the cancellation information on the cancelled medicine container  92 , as the withdrawal process. 
     In a place where the withdrawal operation is performed, the ID code of the cancelled medicine container  92  is obtained, and the cancellation information linked to the ID code of the medicine container  92  is presented. This allows the withdrawal person to know the cancellation information on the medicine container  92 , thereby to accurately withdraw the medicine. 
     Further, the withdrawal operation step S 03  has a medicine information detecting step of, for example, detecting medicine information on a medicine as the withdrawal process. Moreover, the withdrawal operation step S 03  has the cancelled medicine determining step S 94  for determining whether or not each detected medicine corresponds to a withdrawal medicine. Furthermore, the withdrawal operation step S 03  has a medicine withdrawal information presenting step of showing a withdrawal medicine determination result as the medicine withdrawal information. 
     As thus described, the withdrawal operation step S 03  has the medicine information detecting step, the cancelled medicine determining step and the medicine withdrawal information presenting step, whereby the withdrawal medicine determination result with respect to each cancelled medicine can be showed to the withdrawal person. Therefore, the medicine withdrawal is accurately performed without dealing a wrong medicine. Further, the cancelled medicine determining step S 94  determines whether a medicine in the cancelled medicine container  92  corresponds to a withdrawal medicine, corresponds to a disposal medicine, or corresponds to a non-cancelled medicine, from the management information of the medicine container  92 . 
     In the case of occurrence of a cancellation, it is possible to sort at once each of the medicines in the medicine container  92  to one among a withdrawal medicine, a disposal medicine and a non-cancelled medicine. 
     Further, the cancelled medicine determining step S 94  determines whether or not a cancelled medicine in the medicine container  92  corresponds to a withdrawal medicine, from the dispensation progress information in the management information on the medicine container  92 . Since it is determined whether or not the medicine corresponds to a withdrawal medicine, based upon the progress status of the dispensation, more accurate determination can be performed. 
       FIGS. 21 to 27  are detailed flowcharts for the withdrawal operation. Next, details of the medicine withdrawal operation are described with reference to these flowcharts. 
     When the doctor judges to change or cancel a prescription with a prescription direction, the doctor generates a cancellation of the prescription through the progress inquiring section  22  or the like. A cancelling step S 101  is performed for communicating to the dispensation managing section  11  that the prescription direction has been cancelled. 
     First, the medicine withdrawing section  17  receives the cancellation information. Thereafter, the medicine withdrawing section  17  transmits the cancellation information to the dispensation managing section  11 . The cancellation information includes such contents of the cancellation that the whole or parts of the medicines in the dispensation direction information are cancelled. 
     In the dispensation managing section  11 , a container specifying step S 102  is then performed for specifying the ID code of the medicine container  92  corresponding to the prescription code of the prescription direction cancelled. The cancellation information is recorded in the management information by linking to the ID code of the medicine container  92 . 
     The cancelled medicine container  92  is carried to the dispensation operating section, for example, the medicine procuring section  15 . The medicine procuring section  15  detects the ID code of the medicine container  92 , and makes an inquiry to the dispensation managing section  11 , to obtain the prescription direction corresponding to the ID code. 
     At this time, the dispensation managing section  11  checks the presence or absence of the cancellation information with respect to the medicine container  92 , and when the cancellation information is present, the dispensation managing section  11  transmits to the medicine procuring section  15  that the cancellation of the medicine container  92  has occurred. The medicine procuring section  15  then shows that the cancellation of the medicine container  92  has occurred. 
     The dispensation operator is informed that the cancellation has occurred, and carries the medicine container  92  to the medicine withdrawing section  17 . When the cancelled medicine container  92  is carried into the medicine withdrawing section  17 , the medicine withdrawal operation is started. First, a withdrawal person authenticating step S 103  is performed for authenticating a withdrawal person with the person authentication device  82 . 
     The person authentication device  82  compares operator information of the dispensation operator with the register information, to check whether or not the operator is a dispensation operator permitted for a medicine withdrawal, namely a withdrawal person. When having been permitted for the operation, the operator is authenticated as a withdrawal person. 
     The RFID tag  93  of the medicine container  92  carried into the section is read with the RFID reader  81   a . That is to say, a withdrawal container identifying step S 104  is performed for identifying the ID code of the medicine container  92 . 
     Next, an inquiry is made to the dispensation managing section  11 , to check the presence or absence of the cancellation information on the detected ID code of the medicine container  92 . When the cancellation information is present, a management information obtaining step S 105  is performed for obtaining the management information on the medicine container  92  which includes the cancellation information. 
       FIG. 28  shows a medicine management table  120 , in which the management information is put down. The prescription code, the dispensation direction information, the container code, the dispensation progress information, the storage medicine information, the cancellation information, the withdrawal status, and the cancelled medicine code are recorded in the medicine management table  120 , as the management information. The dispensation progress information has records of an operation time and an operator of the dispensation operation. When the dispensation operation is performed, the operation time and the operator are determined in accordance with the supply information, the procurement information and the mixture information as the dispensation information. 
     The storage medicine means the medicines collected into the medicine container  92 . The medicines collected into the medicine container  92  are calculated from the supply information, the procurement information and the mixture information as the dispensation information. 
     Returning to the flowchart of  FIG. 21 , a description is given. After the management information including the cancellation information has been obtained, a cancellation presenting step S 106  is performed for showing the cancellation information of the medicine container  92  on the withdrawal display  83 . 
     After the cancellation information has been presented, the withdrawal person picks up one of the medicines in the medicine container  92  and reads the bar code of the picked medicine with the bar code reader  88 . A medicine information detecting step S 107  is then performed. 
     The medicine withdrawing section  17  identifies the medicine name of the detected medicine from the medicine information. It is then determined whether or not the medicine name is a name of the cancelled medicines (the step S 108 ). 
     When the medicine name is the name of the cancelled medicine, a classification of the medicine types is performed according to the medicine name of the detected medicine (the step S 109 ). The medicine types mentioned, herein, are groups according to the medicine management or groups according to the dispensation method. Specifically, medicines are classified into: a general medicine; a management medicine whose treatment is required to be managed by a pharmacist or the like; a mixture medicine obtained by mixing a plurality of medicines; and the requiring cool medicine whose temperature is required to be managed cool. Although a mixture medicine can also be taken as a general medicine as well as a management medicine, a general medicine and a management medicine aimed to be mixed are taken as a mixture medicine. 
     The classification of the medicine types is determined based upon which medicine group the medicine name belongs to. Next, the withdrawal operation on each classified medicine type is described. 
     First, the case of the classification as a general medicine is described with reference to the second flowchart of  FIG. 22 . When the detected medicine is classified as a general medicine, a medicine withdrawal information creating step S 110  is first performed. 
     Since a general medicine corresponds to a reusable withdrawal medicine, the determination result is the withdrawal medicine. For example, when a medicine A as a general medicine is detected, medicine withdrawal information as the withdrawal medicine is created with the general medicine. 
     As the medicine withdrawal information created, the medicine withdrawal information has: a cancelled medicine determination result; a return destination of the cancelled medicine; a place as a temporary place for the cancelled medicine; and the cancelled medicine code. 
     Part of the medicine withdrawal information is shown in the step S 110  of  FIG. 22 . The determination result being the withdrawal medicine means that the cancelled medicine corresponds to a withdrawal medicine. The return destination being medicine supplying section A 3  means that the withdrawal medicine is returned to the third case of the medicine supplying section  14 . The place means a container which holds temporarily withdrawal medicines therein or a disposal box into which a disposal medicine is discarded, in the medicine withdrawing section  17 . The first temporary place means a temporary placement container for holding therein withdrawal medicines to be returned to the medicine supplying section  14 . The cancelled medicine code is the identification number for managing the cancelled medicine. 
     In the withdrawal display  83 , a medicine withdrawal information presenting step S 111  is performed for showing the medicine withdrawal information on the detected medicine to the withdrawal person. 
     Next, a cancellation authentication recording step S 112  is performed for recording the cancel authentication information indicating that the medicine is a cancelled medicine. Specifically, a label is printed with the medicine withdrawal information as the cancellation authentication information. Subsequently, an information updating step S 113  is performed for updating the management information and the cancelled medicine information of the dispensation managing section  11 . 
     At this time, the withdrawal person sticks the printed label to the medicine A and puts the medicine A into the first temporary place in accordance with the medicine withdrawal information presented. Sticking the label with the medicine withdrawal information to the medicine means recording the cancellation authentication information on the medicine which is determined as a cancelled medicine in the withdrawal operation. 
     In the case of reusing the medicine as a withdrawal medicine, looking at the seal label stuck to the medicine can facilitate the determination of whether or not the medicine is a normal medicine or a withdrawal medicine. 
     In addition, the cancellation authentication information may not be recorded on the label, but the information may be recorded in an RFID of the medicine as a withdrawal medicine. Further, direct printing may be performed on the surface of the medicine. The surface of the medicine means the surfaces of a medicine glass bottle, a medicine bag, or the like. Further, in place of the medicine withdrawal information, a mark may simply be printed to indicate that the medicine is a cancelled medicine. 
       FIG. 29  is a front view of a cancelled medicine stuck with a label. On a label  122  stuck to a withdrawal medicine  121  as a cancelled medicine, a variety of information is recorded. The cancelled medicine code is recorded as a bar code  123 . Further, the return destination is printed below a cutoff line  124  of the label  122 . It should be noted that the medicine withdrawal information described above is for the medicine A, and hence, for example, the return destination of the medicine B as a general medicine, is a different place. 
     Moreover, in an information updating step S 113 , the cancelled medicine information included in the management information is updated. 
       FIG. 30  is a diagram showing a cancelled medicine management table for the cancelled medicine information. The cancelled medicine code, the determination result, the medicine name, the ID code of the return container, the place, the return destination, the withdrawal person, the cancelled medicine management information such as the withdrawal operation time are recorded in the cancelled medicine management table  130 . Although not put down in  FIG. 30 , the dispensation progress information may be included. 
     As thus described, the withdrawal operation step S 03  has the cancellation authentication recording step S 112  for recording the cancellation authentication recording information that indicates a cancelled medicine, determined as a withdrawal medicine or a disposal medicine. 
     Recording the cancellation authentication information on each cancelled medicine can facilitate the identification of the cancelled medicine even when new medicines and cancelled medicines are intermingled. Therefore, the cancellation authentication information may have letters “withdrawal medicine” or “disposal medicine”. This makes it easy to identify a cancelled medicine at a glance. 
     Further, in the cancellation authentication recording step S 112 , the cancellation authentication information including the cancelled medicine code may be recorded on the withdrawal medicine. As shown in  FIG. 28 , the cancelled medicine code is recorded as the management information in the medicine management table  120 . By recording of this cancelled medicine code, the history of the withdrawal medicine can be seen from the cancelled medicine code. 
     Next, the case of classification as a management medicine is described with reference to the third flowchart of  FIG. 23 . When the detected medicine is classified as a management medicine, a medicine withdrawal information creating step S 114  is performed. Since a management medicine corresponds to a reusable withdrawal medicine, the determination result is a withdrawal medicine. Therefore, the medicine withdrawal information as a withdrawal medicine is created for the management medicine. 
     The determination result being a withdrawal medicine, shown in the step S 114  of  FIG. 23 , means that a medicine D as a management medicine corresponds to a withdrawal medicine. The return destination being the medicine procuring section  15 , B 3  means that the medicine is returned to the third case of the management medicine shelf case  99  of the medicine procuring section  15 . The place being the management medicine withdrawal case F 2  means that the withdrawal medicine is temporarily held in the second case of the management medicine withdrawal case  111 . At this time, although not shown in the figure, the cancelled medicine code is also created as the medicine withdrawal information. 
     Each case of the management medicine withdrawal case  111  is provided with a locking mechanism so as to hold the management medicine therein. A medicine withdrawal information presenting step S 115  is performed by the withdrawal display  83  for presenting the medicine withdrawal information to the withdrawal person. Next, a lock releasing step S 116  is performed for releasing the lock of the second case of the management medicine withdrawal case  111 . Subsequently, a cancellation authentication recording step S 117  is performed for printing a label recorded with the medicine withdrawal information. 
     At this time, the withdrawal person sticks the printed label to the medicine D and puts the medicine D into the second case of the management medicine withdrawal case  111  in accordance with the medicine withdrawal information showed. 
     The withdrawal person presses a locking button (not shown) of the medicine withdrawing section  17  so as to lock the management medicine withdrawal case  111 . Thereupon, a locking step S 118  is performed for locking the management storeroom of the medicine withdrawing section  17 . An information updating step S 119  is then performed for updating the cancelled medicine information and the management information of the dispensation managing section  11 . 
     Next, the case of classification as a mixture medicine is described with reference to the fourth flowchart of  FIG. 24 . In the case of a mixture medicine being present in the medicines of the medicine container  92 , a cancelled medicine determining step S 94  determines that the mixture medicine corresponds to a withdrawal medicine when the dispensation progress information as the management information of the medicine container  92  indicates pre-mixture. 
     In other words, when the detected medicine is classified as a mixture medicine, it is determined whether or not the mixture medicine has already been subjected to the mixing operation (the step S 120 ). 
     As in the medicine management table  120  shown in  FIG. 28 , the dispensation progress information is included in the management information, and the history of the dispensation operation is recorded. For example, medicines of the prescription code BQ44 in the medicine container  92  has already been subjected to a medicine mixture according to the dispensation progress information. 
     When the medicine is determined as post-mixture, the management information of the dispensation managing section  11  is searched on whether or not there is a prescription direction including the same mixture medicine before the mixing operation. It is then determined whether or not the same mixture medicine is present in another prescription direction (the step S 121 ). 
     The post-mixture medicine cannot be used as a medicine unless used within a certain period of time. Described herein is a method for having an already mixed medicine used in a different place when another prescription direction needs the same mixture medicine inside the hospital. 
     When the same mixture medicine is needed in another prescription direction, a medicine withdrawal information creating step S 123  is performed for creating the medicine withdrawal information as a reusable withdrawal medicine. 
     Part of the medicine withdrawal information is shown in the step S 123  of  FIG. 24 . The medicine mixing section C 1  means that the medicine is returned to the first case of the medicine mixing section  16 . The place being the urgent container means the container for urgently delivering a withdrawal medicine to the dispensation operating section. The medicine in the urgent container is carried to the destination upon the completion of the withdrawal operation on one medicine container  92 . 
     Further, in the case of the same mixture medicine being not present in another prescription direction in the step S 121 , a medicine withdrawal information creating step S 124  is performed for sorting the cancelled medicine to a disposal medicine. Such a post-mixture medicine does not correspond to a withdrawal medicine, but corresponds to a disposal medicine. The post-mixture medicine becomes more difficult to reuse with the passage of time. The already mixed medicine, for which the same prescription direction has not been generated, is taken as a disposal medicine. 
     In such a case, the medicine withdrawal information is created on the post-mixture medicine as a disposal medicine. Part of the medicine withdrawal information is shown in the step S 125  of  FIG. 24 . The determination result is the disposal medicine, and the place is the disposal box into which a disposal medicine is discarded. 
     Further, when it is determined in the step S 120  that the medicine is before being subjected to the mixing operation, a medicine withdrawal information creating step S 125  is performed on the medicine as a reusable withdrawal medicine. In such a case, the medicine withdrawal information is created on the pre-mixture medicine as a withdrawal medicine. Part of the medicine withdrawal information is shown in the step S 125  of  FIG. 24 . At this time, the determination result is a withdrawal medicine, the return destination is the medicine supplying section A 7 , and the place is the first temporary place. 
     The pre-mixture medicine at this time is returned to the medicine supplying section  14  since being a general medicine, but in the case of the pre-mixture medicine being a management medicine, the return destination is the medicine procuring section  15 . 
     As thus described, a mixture medicine is sorted according to the conditions of the dispensation progress information in the management information, and the medicine withdrawal information creating step is performed after the determination of whether or not the mixture medicine corresponds to a withdrawal medicine. 
     Upon the completion of the medicine withdrawal information creating steps S 123 , S 124  and S 125 , a medicine withdrawal information presenting step S 126  is performed for presenting the medicine withdrawal information to the withdrawal person with the withdrawal display  83 . Next, a cancellation authentication recording step S 127  is performed for printing the label, which is recorded with the medicine withdrawal information. Subsequently, an information updating step S 128  is performed for updating the cancelled medicine information and the management information of the dispensation managing section  11 . 
     At this time, the withdrawal person sticks the printed label to the medicine, and places the medicine on the designated place in accordance with the medicine withdrawal information displayed. It is to be noted that the printed label is stuck even to a disposal medicine, so as to prevent the disposal medicine from being intermingled with a withdrawal medicine. 
     Next, the case of classification as the requiring cool medicine is described with reference to the fifth flowchart of  FIG. 25 . In the case of a requiring cool medicine being present in the medicines of the medicine container  92 , the cancelled medicine determining step S 94  calculates a normal-temperature operation time as a stay time for the requiring cool medicine after being taken out to a normal-temperature environment, from the procurement time of the dispensation progress information in the management information of the medicine container  92 . 
     When the normal-temperature operation time is shorter than a normal-temperature management time, it is determined that the requiring cool medicine corresponds to a withdrawal medicine. In other words, when the detected medicine is classified as the requiring cool medicine, the normal-temperature operation time as the stay time for the requiring cool medicine after being taken out to the normal-temperature environment is calculated. It is then determined whether or not the normal-temperature operation time is shorter than the normal-temperature management time (the step S 129 ). 
     As shown in  FIG. 28 , the dispensation progress information is included in the management information, and the time when the dispensation operation is performed is recorded. The time from this medicine procurement time to the time when the medicine is detected in the medicine withdrawing section  17  is calculated as the normal-temperature operation time. Then, the normal-temperature operation time is compared with the normal-temperature management time, which is the time when the medicine is usable even in the normal-temperature environment. 
     When the normal-temperature operation time is shorter than the normal-temperature management time, a medicine withdrawal information creating step S 130  is performed for creating the medicine withdrawal information of the requiring cool medicine as a reusable withdrawal medicine. 
     Part of the medicine withdrawal information is shown in the step S 130  of  FIG. 25 . The determination result is the withdrawal medicine, the return destination is the cool shelf case  100  of the medicine procuring section  15 , and the place is the requiring cool medicine withdrawal case  112 . 
     Further, in the step S 129 , when the normal-temperature operation time is not shorter than the normal-temperature management time, a medicine withdrawal information creating step S 131  is performed for creating the medicine withdrawal information of the requiring cool medicine as a disposal medicine. 
     Such a requiring cool medicine does not correspond to a withdrawal medicine, and corresponds to a disposal medicine. Part of the medicine withdrawal information is shown in the step S 131  of  FIG. 25 . At this time, the determination result is the disposal medicine, and the place is the disposal box. 
     Upon completion of the medicine withdrawal information creating steps S 130  and S 131 , a medicine withdrawal information presenting step S 132  is performed for presenting the medicine withdrawal information to the withdrawal person with the withdrawal display  83 . A cancellation authentication recording step S 133  is performed for printing the label recorded with the operator information. An information updating step S 134  is then performed for updating the cancelled medicine information and the management information of the dispensation managing section  11 . At this time, the withdrawal person sticks the printed label to the medicine, and places the medicine in the designated place in accordance with the medicine withdrawal information presented. 
     Next, the case of a non-cancelled medicine is described. As shown in  FIG. 21 , before a classification of the medicine types has been performed (the step S 109 ), the cancelled medicine determination (the step S 108 ) is performed. 
     There is a cancellation of a prescription direction which cancels part of the medicines, and thereat, a non-cancelled medicine which is not a cancelled medicine is present in the medicine container  92 . Such a non-cancelled medicine is returned to the medicine container  92  after removal of cancelled medicines. 
     As shown in  FIG. 26 , when it is determined in the cancelled medicine determination (the step S 108 ) that the medicine is not a cancelled medicine, a medicine withdrawal information creating step S 135  is performed for creating the medicine withdrawal information on the non-cancelled medicine. The medicine withdrawal information, indicating the determination result of the detected medicine being a non-cancelled medicine, is created. A medicine withdrawal information presenting step S 136  is then performed for presenting the medicine withdrawal information. The withdrawal person is informed that the detected medicine is a non-cancelled medicine. 
     The medicine withdrawal information created in the step S 130  presents a message to the withdrawal person. However, the management information is not updated, and a label is not printed. 
     Upon completion of one among the step S 113 , the step S 119 , the step S 128 , the step S 134  and the step S 136 , as shown in the seventh flowchart of  FIG. 27 , it is determined whether or not total detection of the medicines in the medicine container  92  has been completed (the step S 137 ). 
     When all of the medicines as the storage medicines in the management information have not been detected, the process returns to the step S 107 . 
     Upon completion of detecting all of the medicines as the storage medicines in the management information, it is determined whether or not the cancellation information indicates an entire cancellation (the step S 138 ). 
     When the information indicates the entire cancellation, the medicine container  92  is returned to a container place. Thereat, a movement message presenting step S 139  is performed for presenting a message of the movement to the container place in the withdrawal display  83 . 
     When the information does not indicate the entire cancellation, a non-cancelled medicine is returned to the medicine container  92 . Then, the medicine container  92  needs to be returned to the dispensation operating section. Therefore, a movement information creating step S 140  is performed for directing the movement destination of the medicine container  92 . Next, a movement information presenting step S 141  is performed for presenting the movement information on the withdrawal display  83 . Subsequently, a label printing step S 142  is performed for printing a label with the movement information of the container. 
     In accordance with this movement information, the withdrawal person moves the medicine container  92  with the non-cancelled medicine put therein. In such a manner, the medicine withdrawal operation is performed. As thus described, the medicine management system  12  can manage the dispensation information and the progress of each dispensation operation with respect to each patient. The system can then perform accurate dispensation for each patient. Thereby, even in the case of occurrence of cancelled medicines, it is possible to determine a reusable withdrawal medicine since the dispensation information and the progress management of the dispensation operation is managed with accuracy. 
     It should be noted that the withdrawal operation may not be performed in the medicine withdrawing section  17 , but be performed in each dispensation operating section. In the case of performing the withdrawal operation in each dispensation operating section, a mode of the dispensation operating section is changed from a normal mode to a withdrawal mode, for performing the withdrawal operation. 
     Further, although the withdrawal-medicine determination is performed upon a detection of a medicine with the bar code reader  88 , the withdrawal-medicine determination may be performed when the medicine container  92  is placed in the medicine container placement section  81 . The withdrawal display  83  may be made to display, as the medicine withdrawal information, the determination result of the withdrawal medicine in addition to the cancellation information. The withdrawal person can see which a withdrawal medicine is in the medicine container  92  before detecting the medicine with the bar code reader  88 . 
     When the medicine withdrawal operation is performed and the withdrawal medicines are accumulated in the place, the dispensation operator carries the management medicine withdrawal case  111  or the like to each dispensation operating section, and the medicine return operation is performed in each dispensation operation section. 
     Next a return operation for returning a withdrawal medicine to each dispensation operating section is described. As a specific example of the return operation, an operation to return a management medicine to the medicine procuring section  15  is described. 
       FIG. 31  is a flowchart for the return operation performed in the medicine procuring section  15 . A dispensation operator carries one of the management medicine shelf cases  111  of the medicine withdrawing section  17  as a return container to the medicine procuring section  15 . The dispensation operator switches the medicine procuring section  15  from a medicine procurement and procurement inspection mode to a return operation mode. The return operation is then performed in the medicine procuring section  15 . 
     First, a return person authenticating step S 151  is performed. The person authentication device  42  compares the dispensation operator information of the dispensation operator with the register information, to check whether or not the dispensation operator is a dispensation operator permitted for the return operation, namely a return person. When a non-registered dispensation operator performs the authenticating operation, letters “not-permitted” are displayed on the procurement display  43 . When a registered dispensation operator performs the authenticating operation, letters “permitted” are displayed on the procurement display  43 , and the return operation is permitted. 
     That is, in the return person authenticating step S 151 , the operator information of the return person is obtained, and when the return person is qualified to return a medicine, the return person is permitted to return the medicine to the dispensation operating section. 
     In such a manner, when a medicine determined as a withdrawal medicine is to be returned to the dispensation operating section, the operator information of the return operator is obtained, and when the return person is qualified to return the medicine, the medicine is returned to the dispensation operating section. 
     Subsequently, a return container identifying step S 152  is performed. After the ID code of the return container has been identified, a cancelled medicine information obtaining step S 153  is performed for obtaining the cancelled medicine information of the withdrawal medicines in the return container from the dispensation managing section  11 . 
     The cancelled medicine information includes the ID code of the return container. The cancelled medicine information of the withdrawal medicines in the return container is obtained according to the ID code of the return container. A lock releasing step S 154  is then performed for releasing the lock of the management medicine shelf case  99  of the medicine shelf. This makes it possible to return the management medicine to the management medicine shelf case  99 . 
     Herein, the return person picks up one by one the management medicines in the management container for delivery, and detects the label  122  of the withdrawal medicine  121  with the bar code reader  45 . In the medicine procuring section  15 , a cancelled medicine code detecting step S 155  is performed for detecting the cancelled medicine code from the label  122 . It is then determined whether or not the cancelled medicine information corresponding to the cancelled medicine code detected is present in the cancelled medicine information obtained in the step S 153 . In other words, a cancelled medicine checking step S 156  is performed. 
     When the cancelled medicine code is present in the cancelled medicine information, a return destination presenting step S 157  is performed for presenting a return destination. For example, letters “return to the second case of the management medicine shelf” are showed on the procurement display  43 . When there is no-cancelled medicine code present in the cancelled medicine information, it is determined that a medicine other than the withdrawal medicines has been brought in. A warning message step S 158  is then performed for showing a warning message indicating that the medicine is a nonreturnable medicine. 
     As thus described, only the medicine determined as a withdrawal medicine is made returnable to the dispensation operating section. 
     To that end, the withdrawal operation step S 20  has the cancellation authentication recording steps S 112 . S 117 , S 127  and S 133  for recording the cancellation authentication information including the cancelled medicine codes of the withdrawal medicines, while recording the cancelled medicine codes into the dispensation managing section  11 . 
     Then, the return operation step has the cancelled medicine checking step S 156  for performing the following determination at the time of returning a medicine as a withdrawal medicine to the dispensation operating section. The cancelled medicine checking step S 156  determines whether or not the cancelled medicine code of the cancellation authentication information, detected in the dispensation operating section, is recorded in the dispensation managing section  11 . 
     When the cancelled medicine code is recorded in the dispensation managing section, it means that an appropriate medicine return has been made. When there is no cancelled medicine code in the dispensation managing section, it means that an inappropriate medicine return has been made. 
     Further, at the time of returning the withdrawal medicine  121 , the return person cuts out the seal strip, recorded with the return destination, along the cutoff line  124  shown in  FIG. 29 . In the case of using a withdrawal medicine, the dispensation operator can see it at a glance in the medicine procuring section  15 , that the medicine is a withdrawal medicine rather than a normal medicine. 
     Upon completion of the step S 157  or the step S 158 , the step S 159  checks whether or not total detection of the medicines in the management container for delivery has been completed. 
     When the detection of all the medicines has not been completed, the process returns to the step S 155 , and when the detection of all the medicines has been completed, an information updating step S 160  is performed for updating the cancelled medicine information of the dispensation managing section  11 . As an update of the cancelled medicine information, the withdrawal operation time and the withdrawal person are recorded into the cancelled medicine information. 
     As thus described, the medicine management system  12  specifies the medicine container to make an accurate cancellation, and it is possible to reduce withdrawal errors at the time of the cancellation. Further, the medicine management system  12  can directly procure the medicines in the medicine container  92  used for a medicine delivery, thus eliminating the operation of transferring medicines. Moreover, it is possible to manage each dispensation operation with respect to each medicine container  92 . In other words, it is possible to present supplementary medicine information corresponding to the medicine container  92 , so as to reduce procurement errors. Further, it is possible to present procurement medicine information corresponding to the medicine container  92 , so as to reduce procurement inspection errors. 
     Thereat, the medicine management system  12  has the prescription generating section  21 , the medicine supplying section  14 , the medicine procuring section  15 , the medicine mixing section  16 , the medicine withdrawing section  17 , and the medicine delivering section  18 . 
     A medicine management is performed by the following method using the medicine management system  12 . The prescription generating section  21  performs the prescription generating step S 31  for generating a prescription direction including a prescription code and dispensation direction information. 
     The medicine supplying section  14  performs the medicine supplying step S 12 . The medicine supplying step S 12  has the automatic supply step S 41  and the supply communicating step S 42 . 
     The automatic supply step S 41  uses the medicine container  92  having the ID code, to automatically supply medicines to the medicine container  92  in accordance with the prescription direction. 
     The supply communicating step S 42  makes the ID code of the medicine container  92  and the prescription code of the prescription direction have a corresponding relation to each other, and communicates to the dispensation managing section  11 , the corresponding relation and supply information regarding the medicines inserted into the medicine container. 
     In the medicine procuring section  15 , the medicine procuring step S 14  and the procurement inspecting step S 15  are performed. The medicine procuring step S 14  has the procurement person authenticating step S 51 , the procurement container identifying step S 52 , the procurement presenting step S 53 , and the procurement communicating step S 54 . The procurement inspecting step S 15  has the procurement inspector authenticating step S 55 , the procurement inspection presenting step S 56 , and the procurement inspection communicating step S 57 . 
     The procurement person authenticating step S 51  compares an authenticated procurement person with register information, to make a check. The procurement container identifying step S 52  identifies the ID code of the medicine container  92 . The procurement presenting step S 53  presents supplementary medicine information on the medicine container  92 , based upon management information of the dispensation managing section corresponding to the ID code of the medicine container. The procurement communicating step S 54  communicates procurement information, including procurement person information, to the dispensation managing section  11 , while making the procurement information correspond to the ID code of the medicine container  92 . 
     The procurement inspector authenticating step S 55  compares an authenticated procurement inspector with register information, to make a check. The procurement inspection presenting step S 56  presents information of the medicines procured in the medicine container  92 , based upon the management information of the dispensation managing section  11  corresponding to the ID code of the medicine container. 
     The procurement inspection communicating step S 57  communicates procurement inspection information, including procurement inspector information, to the dispensation managing section  11 , while making the procurement inspection information correspond to the ID code of medicine container  92 . 
     In the medicine mixing section  16 , the medicine mixing step S 17  and the mixture inspecting step S 18  are performed. The medicine mixing step S 17  has the mixing person authenticating step S 61 , the mixture container identifying step S 62 , the mixture presenting step S 63 , and the mixture communicating step S 64 . 
     The mixture inspecting step S 18  has the mixing inspector authenticating step S 65 , the mixture inspection presenting step S 66 , and the mixture inspection communicating step S 67 . 
     The mixing person authenticating step S 61  compares the authenticated mixing person with register information, to make a check. The mixture container identifying step S 62  obtains the ID code of the medicine container  92 . The mixture presenting step S 63  presents mixture medicine information on the medicine container  92 , based upon the management information of the dispensation managing section corresponding to the ID code of the medicine container  92 . The mixture communicating step S 64  communicates mixture information, including mixing person information, to the dispensation managing section  11 , while making the mixture information correspond to the ID code of the medicine container  92 . 
     The mixture inspector authenticating step S 65  compares an authenticated mixing inspector with register information, to make a check. The mixture inspection presenting step S 66  presents mixture inspection medicine information on the medicine container  92 , based upon the management information corresponding to the ID code of the medicine container  92 . 
     The mixture inspection communicating step S 67  communicates mixture inspection information, including mixing inspector information, to the dispensation managing section  11 , while making the mixture inspection information correspond to the ID code of the medicine container  92 . 
     In the medicine delivering section  18 , the medicine delivering step S 19  is performed. The medicine delivering step S 19  has the delivery container identifying step S 71 , the delivery presenting step S 72 , the delivery person authenticating step S 73 , and the delivery communicating step S 74 . 
     The delivery container identifying step S 71  obtains the ID code of the medicine container  92 . The delivery presenting step S 72  presents delivery permission/non-permission information on the medicine container  92 , based upon the management information of the dispensation managing section  11  corresponding to the ID code of the medicine container  92 . 
     The delivery person authenticating step S 73  compares an authenticated delivery person with register information, to make a check. The delivery communicating step S 74  communicates delivery information, including delivery person information and cart information, to the dispensation managing section  11 , while making the delivery information correspond to the ID code of the medicine container. The progress inquiring step S 81  and the progress responding step S 19  are performed in the progress inquiring section  22 . 
     The progress inquiring step S 81  communicates dispensation inquiry information including the prescription code of the prescription direction to the dispensation managing section  11 . The progress responding step S 82  informs dispensation progress information corresponding to the prescription direction, based upon the management information of the ID code of the medicine container having the relation to the prescription code. 
     In the medicine withdrawing section  17 , the withdrawal operation step S 03  is performed. The withdrawal operation step S 03  has the cancelling step S 91 , the container specifying step S 92 , the cancellation presenting step S 93 , the cancelled medicine determining step S 94 , the medicine withdrawing step S 95 , and the withdrawal communicating step S 96 . 
     The cancelling step S 91  communicates it to the dispensation managing section  11 , that the whole or part of the contents of the prescription direction has been canceled, based upon the prescription code of the prescription direction. The container specifying step S 92  obtains the ID code of the medicine container  92  corresponding to the prescription code, based upon the management information of the dispensation managing section  11  including the prescription code. The cancellation presenting step S 93  presents cancellation information on the medicine container  92 . 
     The cancelled medicine determining step S 94  determines whether or not a medicine in the medicine container  92  cancelled corresponds to a withdrawal medicine, based upon the management information and the cancellation information on the medicine container  92 . The medicine withdrawing step S 95  withdraws the cancelled medicine in the medicine container  92 . The withdrawal communicating step S 36  communicates withdrawal information, including a withdrawal medicine name and the number thereof, to the dispensation managing section  11 , while making the information correspond to the ID code of the medicine container  92 . 
     In the dispensation managing section  11 , the management controlling step S 86  and the updating step S 87  are performed. The management controlling step S 86  communicates with the medicine supplying section  14 , the medicine procuring section  15 , the medicine mixing section  16 , the medicine delivering section  18 , the progress inquiring section  22 , and the medicine withdrawing section  17 . 
     The updating step S 87  updates such management information corresponding to the ID code of the medicine container as the prescription code, the dispensation direction information, the supply information, the procurement information, the procurement inspection information, the mixture information, the mixture inspection information, the delivery information, the withdrawal information and the like. 
     The medicine management system  12  performs the medicine management in the configuration as thus described. 
     It is to be noted that the medicine withdrawing operation may be performed in the medicine withdrawing section  17  as a place or a room different from the dispensation operating section. It is then possible to prevent a withdrawal medicine in the medicine container  92  cancelled from being intermingled into a medicine shelf or the like for unused medicines, and being lost or causing omission of the medicine withdrawing operation. 
     Further, the medicine withdrawing operation may be performed in the medicine withdrawing section  17  as a place, a room or the like which is different from the dispensation operating section. By immediately performing the medicine withdrawing operation in the dispensation operating section where the cancelled medicine container  92  is specified, it is possible to reduce the normal-temperature operation time as a normal-temperature stay time for the requiring cool medicine, so as to reduce disposal medicines. 
     INDUSTRIAL APPLICABILITY 
     According to the medicine management method of the present invention, it is possible to accurately manage the dispensation operation, so as to perform an accurate withdrawal operation. Thereby, the method is useful in a hospital and the like equipped with dispensation operation facilities. 
     REFERENCE MARKS IN THE DRAWINGS 
     
         
           11  Dispensation managing section 
           12  Medicine management system 
           13  Medical office 
           14  Medicine supplying section 
           15  Medicine procuring section 
           16  Medicine mixing section 
           17  Medicine withdrawing section 
           18  Medicine delivering section 
           20  Prescription display 
           21  Prescription generating section 
           22  Progress inquiring section 
           23  Prescription input device 
           24  Prescription communication device 
           25  Management communication device 
           26  Management storage device 
           27  Management processing device 
           31  Supply medicine storage device 
           32  Robot arm 
           33  Supply communication device 
           34 ,  41   a ,  51   a ,  65 ,  81   a  RFID reader 
           35  Supply processing device 
           40  Medicine procurement shelf 
           41 ,  81  Medicine container placement section 
           42 ,  52 ,  62 ,  82  Person authentication device 
           43  Procurement display 
           44  Procurement communication device 
           45 ,  55 ,  88  Bar code reader 
           46  Procurement processing device 
           50  Medicine mixture shelf 
           51  Medicine container placement section 
           53  Mixture display 
           54  Mixture communication device 
           56  Mixture processing device 
           59 ,  89 ,  101  Button 
           63  Delivery display 
           64  Delivery communication device 
           66  Delivery shelf 
           67  Reset button 
           68  Delivery processing device 
           71  Inquiry input device 
           72  Inquiry display 
           73  Inquiry communication device 
           80  Medicine withdrawal shelf 
           83  Withdrawal display 
           84  Withdrawal communication device 
           85  Withdrawal processing device 
           91   a ,  91   b  Belt conveyer 
           92  Medicine container 
           93  RFID tag 
           94 ,  96  Supply medicine storage device 
           95 ,  97  Medicine 
           98  Container correspondence display 
           99  Management medicine shelf case 
           100  Cool shelf case 
           107  Handle 
           111  Management medicine withdrawal case 
           112  Requiring cool medicine withdrawal case 
           120  Medicine management table 
           121  Withdrawal medicine 
           122  Label 
           123  Bar code 
           124  Cutoff line 
           130  Cancelled medicine management table