Soon! Google Can Translate Doctor's Writings with AI

Google soon has an Artificial Intelligence (AI) feature that can outline hard-to-read doctor's handwriting.(photo: google dock)

JAKARTA - Google will soon have an Artificial intelligence (AI) feature that can decipher hard-to-read handwriting, such as notes and prescriptions written by doctors.

The company understands that many doctors write prescriptions and then they are not understood by the patients themselves. This problem has been around for decades and many tech companies have attempted to solve it with little or no success.

Now Google is trying to translate those unexpected texts. The search giant announced at its annual conference in India recently that it will work with pharmacists to figure out how to decipher doctors' handwriting, via Google's AI translation feature.

"We today announced an advanced AI and machine learning model that can identify and even highlight medicines in handwritten prescriptions," Google India said on its official blog.

Citing TechCrunch, Wednesday, December 21, currently the Google AI translation feature is still a research prototype and not ready for the public.

In that event, a Google executive demonstrated how to use this feature, users can take pictures of recipes or upload them from their photo albums.

After the image has been processed, the app detects and highlights the drugs mentioned in the notes, then translates them.

"This will act as an assistive technology to digitize handwritten medical documents by adding humans in the loop such as pharmacists, but no decision will be made based solely on the outputs provided by this technology," said Google India.

"While this system is currently under development, we look forward to sharing more updates at its wider rollout."

Apart from this AI translation feature, Google also announced that it is working on a single model to translate more than 100 Indian languages ​​in speech and text.