The doctor’s handwriting is known worldwide as one of the most complicated to read, so much so that it has given rise to numerous jokes and jokes, although the truth is that in some cases it can end up being a problem. Google knows this, and decided to train an artificial intelligence system to create assistive technology that is capable of interpreting and convert said letter into easy-to-read text.
It’s not magic, it’s another example of the power of artificial intelligence. Prescriptions and prescriptions handwritten by doctors can sometimes be impossible to readeven by the pharmacists themselves, a problem that will be possible to solve instantly thanks to this technology that Google has developed, and that starts from the base that the Mountain View giant already had, and that allowed interpret text extracted from images.
Many doctors resort to a shorthand-type writing, which allows for high-speed writing and reach a level similar to that of a person speaking at a moderate pace. There are different types of shorthand, but they all have something in common, the use of much simpler signs than those of traditional writing, which makes it possible to speed up the process and write much faster, as we have said.
This explains why what many of us find impossible to understand is easy for pharmacists, although I can confirm that I have come across some cases in which even they have suffered a “jam”. Google’s new artificial intelligence model will allow us to overcome these situations, and it will also help us understand the doctor’s prescriptions and instructions without having to resort to another professional.
At the moment this artificial intelligence is in an early stage of development, that is, it is a prototype, and it does not have a specific release date scheduled, so right now we can only wait. However, its operation has been demonstrated live and the result has been good. During the demo, the Mountain View giant took a photo of a prescription, uploaded it to Google Lens after completing a small processing phase, and automatically identified the drugs that appeared on it.
According to Google:
“This (the new AI) will act as a assistive technology for scanning handwritten medical documents by increasing people in the loop, such as pharmacists, however, no decision will be made based solely on the result provided by this technology.”
