We all might agree about how tough is the task of decoding the handwriting in a doctor’s prescription , Right ? But according to latest reports the giant search engine Google is working on a new Google lens feature to decode the doctor’s prescription .
Google is currently working on with pharmacists to create an AI model that can help us to understand the difficult handwriting on prescriptions so as to digitize handwritten medical records.
Recently Google announced about working on its new AI feature at its Google for India conference on Monday. However according to further reports ,Dr. Manish Gupta, director of research at Google India, had said that a lot of work is yet to be done before the system gets ready to be revealed to the world .
Taking to Twitter , Google India tweeted, “We’ve started working on the complex process of identifying what’s written on medical prescriptions by building an assistive model to digitise it, using AI, for medical healthcare professionals.”
We’ve started working on the complex process of identifying what’s written on medical prescriptions by building an assistive model to digitise it, using AI, for medical healthcare professionals.#GoogleForIndia pic.twitter.com/XD8YwJ6HBr
— Google India (@GoogleIndia) December 19, 2022
You will soon be able to decode doctor’s prescription using Google Search. #GoogleForIndia pic.twitter.com/LIqIL55vvN
— Fiiber (@fiibertech) December 19, 2022
As per the new Google Lens’ feature which is currently a research prototype and not ready to be launched for the public yet, users can either take a photo of their prescription or upload a photo from their library. The Artificial intelligence (AI) will then process the image to decode it automatically and then highlight medications included on the note.
“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,” the company said in a statement.
The hard to read handwriting of doctors’ can potentially lead to deadly consequences for patients. According to a 2006 study from the National Academies of Science’s Institute of Medicine, illegible handwriting of doctors was estimated to kill over 7,000 people a year at the time, and over 1.5 million Americans are injured by mistakes with their medication.
