The Doctor’s handwriting is known worldwide as one of the most difficult to read, so much so that it has given rise to numerous quips and jokes, although the truth is that it can be a problem in some cases. Google knows this and has decided to train an artificial intelligence system to create assistive technology that is able to interpret and convert the specified 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 immediately solved thanks to this technology developed by Google, which starts from the base that the Mountain View giant already had, which allowed interpret text extracted from images.

Many doctors resort to ka shorthand typing that enables high-speed typing 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 characters than in traditional writing, which allows you to speed up the process and write much faster, as we said.

This explains why it is easy for pharmacists to do what many of us do not understand, although I can confirm that I have come across cases where they too have suffered a “jam”. A new model of artificial intelligence from Google enable us to overcome these situations, and it will also help us to understand the doctor’s prescriptions and instructions without having to resort to another specialist.

At the moment this artificial intelligence is in the early stages of development, that means it’s a prototype and doesn’t have a specific release date planned, so all we can do now is wait. However, its operation was demonstrated live and the result was good. During the demo, the Mountain View giant took a picture of the prescription, after completing a small processing phase, uploaded it to Google Lens and automatically identified the drugs that appeared on it.

According to Google:

“This (new AI) will function as a assistive technology for scanning handwritten medical documents however, by increasing the number of people in the loop, such as pharmacists, no decision will be made based solely on the outcome that the technology provides.”