Key Highlights
- Google aims to make badly handwritten prescriptions readable
- Google Lens will develop an AI tool that can translate poorly written medical notes
- The company hasn’t given any details on when it plans to release this feature to everyone
Nobody, not even a doctor, can read a doctor’s handwriting – it’s an evergreen joke. Well, doctors rush through writing prescriptions since they work long hours and attend to many patients each day. But after that, it becomes quite challenging to comprehend or even recognize the medications listed in the prescription. In order to make that task quick and easy, Google is developing a model that will accurately read your doctor’s poorly handwritten prescriptions.
The search engine giant said it could use artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) to allow individuals to recognize and highlight medications in handwritten prescriptions. The feature is still being worked on, so users might not see it for a while.
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The company hasn’t given any details on when it plans to release this feature to everyone. Google says it’s working with pharmacists to help people better understand their prescriptions.
The feature is still in the research prototype stage and is not yet accessible to the general public. According to what we do know, though, users will be able to upload a snapshot from their photo library or take a picture of the prescription they want to have decoded. The Google app will identify and highlight the medications listed in the prescription once the image has been uploaded.
Google Lens will develop an AI tool that can translate poorly written medical notes. The feature was presented by the company during the “AI for India” event. Google said, “Much work still remains to be done before this system is ready for the real world.” The tech company’s Lens feature can be used to translate languages and detect objects (such as plants and animals).
In the upcoming months, we ought to have more clarity on this. Google has noticed that Indians around the world mainly use Google Lens for different use cases. This may have motivated the company to provide users with more AI solutions for great convenience.
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