Using RFID technology on clinic’s pharmacy operation management and development of intelligent medicine dispensing cabinet

We rely on pharmacist professional service for a long time. This research emphasizes on how to improve Taiwan´s present clinic pharmacy dispensing system by introducing RFID technique to assist small clinic which hires single pharmacist that can´t perform repetitive inspections. Human factor and new processes are took into consideration to enhance the dispensing accuracy. By installing real system and reestablishing the dispensing process, our primary goal is to ensure the medication safety and to reduce the medicine risk. Our efforts include prescription electrolyzed at the front end, light-indicator-aided picking system to help the pharmacist taking the exact medicine during dispensing, RFID embedded cabinet to perform the double check procedure, electrical weighting scale to make sure the right amount and CCD camera to reconstruct the scene when errors do happen.