This is the potential reason for various tech industries to use AI to solve the problem, though the results have been disappointing.

How Google plans to use AI to translate your doctor’s prescription.

The indecipherable writing of the doctors has been a matter of many jokes innumerable times. Some have been empathetic towards the long and laborious hours doctors work, leaving them in haste to write properly whereas others have also bashed them for their recklessness. Whatever may have been your stance, Google might uproot the issue completely.?

Google has earned to boast of “Make Google do it”. Now it ventures to address the difficulties that the scribbles of doctors generate. The illegible handwriting happens to be a grave matter, potentially leading to fatal circumstances. As per a Times report, as many as 7000 people have to pay the price of the sloppy handwriting of doctors with their lives. Keeping such records in mind one can hardly just joke about the topic.?

This is the potential reason for various tech industries to use AI to solve the problem, though the results have been disappointing.?

Now the tech giant has announced it will take the matter into its own hands. In their annual conference, Google for India, Google revealed about developing an AI model having the prospect of deciphering the hard-to-understand prescriptions written by doctors. It is working with pharmacists in India to develop an AI tool that will aid in getting around those ‘scribbles.’?

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The news has certainly brought a flare of happy news in people, but all are still waiting to experience this. As per reports, the AI translation feature is still a prototype, meaning it is yet to be launched for the masses to use.?

The feature would probably act as an add-on to the already existing Google lens that has been helping people translate many languages, transcribe notes, and recognize clothes, plants, etc.?

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The user will be able to snap a picture of the doctor’s prescription using the Google lens and upload it. The app will process the uploaded image to detect the names of medicines and highlight them in the uploaded prescription.?

"This will act as an assistive technology for digitizing handwritten medical documents by augmenting the humans in the loop such as pharmacists, however, no decision will be made solely based on the output provided by this technology," Google said in its blog post. Further in the post, Manish Gupta, P.hd., Research Director at Google mentioned, “Ironically, what makes prescriptions hard for computers to digitize is the same thing that makes them hard for you and me to read—they’re unstructured, in shorthand, and full of clues for pharmacists to decipher,” therefore the tech wizards will be working with the human pharmacist and will make no medical decision only based on technology alone.?

Google’s endeavour can be promising in solving the age-old problem of having an illegibly written prescription. Hence all eyes must be on further progress and more information shared by Google about the same.?

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