Doctors’ handwriting is known to be very difficult to decipher at times, and Google has announced that it is working on deciphering the writing on medical prescriptions, starting with pictures taken by a phone.
The announcement was made at a conference in India. It is still too early to know if this tool will be available worldwide or only in a few countries.
Doctors often write quickly or are almost impossible to understand, which is a problem for the patient and sometimes for pharmacists. The company says it’s integrating handwriting recognition into Google Lens, an app Google launched in 2017.
Lens is a visual analytics app that, based on AI technology, can also recognize different things you point your phone’s camera at and then send you relevant search results.
It is no coincidence that the announcement was made in India, the country with the largest number of Google Lens users and a country where more than 500 million people use Google services.
Sources: TechCrunch, indiatimes.com
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