The times of spending hours and hours trying to decipher what is written on prescriptions are over. Doctors' bad handwriting problem finally got a solution, thanks to Google Lens.
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At an event held in India, Google announced that Lens will now be able to understand – and translate! - the scribble doctors. No more scribbles and confusion.
"This will act as an assistive technology to digitize handwritten medical documents, increasing humans in the loop such as pharmacists," the company said in a statement.
Where did the idea to use Google Lens in doctors' lyrics come from?
From pharmacists! According to the Silicon Valley giant, they are the only ones capable of understanding the doctors' ugly handwriting and, therefore, actively collaborated in the project.
These professionals will lend their knowledge to improve handwriting recognition accuracy. The idea is that Lens can translate in real time and also from photos in the gallery. Therefore, the system needs to be sharp.
It's gonna take a while?
A little bit. The “translator” of Google Lens is still under improvement. Therefore, there is no release date.
In addition, it is possible that the functionality starts first abroad and only later arrives in Brazil. We'll have to be a little more patient and stick with the doctors' bad handwriting for a while longer.
Despite the fact that doctors don't care so much about the handwriting, because...
Some places in Brazil have moved to create laws that oblige all medical prescriptions to be typed – or handwritten legibly. This happened because cases of medicines being changed or with wrong instructions due to lack of understanding of the text began to become common. All because of the scribbles of health professionals.
Doctors make a my fault about the subject. They argue that the bad handwriting it is the result of many years of study, taking notes quickly.
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