Together with pharmacists, Google is developing an Artificial Intelligence (AI) model to translate doctors’ handwriting into their prescriptions. Users will be able to access this AI through Google Lens.
This development arises from the urgency that patients read correctly what is written in medical prescriptions, because according to a study by the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies of Sciences, the fact that patients could not clearly read the handwriting of doctors , had led to the deaths of more than 7,000 people in 2006, the year this report was produced.
In addition, it was estimated that 1.5 million Americans had health consequences from medication errors due to difficulty reading prescriptions.
This AI was demonstrated at an annual Google conference in India last Monday, and according to Google India director Manish Gupta, there is still a lot of work to be done before this development is publicly available.
Based on this demo, users will either take photos of the prescription or upload that image to Google’s processing tool. Then the AI will highlight the drugs it detects in the prescription.
Although there is no release date for the tool, so far it is known that it will be part of Google Lens, Google’s AI development that is used for language translation and the identification of various objects.
According to information from Google, this tool will serve as an assistive technology to digitize handwritten medical documents. Although no decision will be made based solely on the results provided by this technology.
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