Google can now read doctors’ bad handwriting

If it isn&#x27;t the handwriting that is indecipherable, it is the abbreviations.<p>I worked for a very early stage startup that wanted to apply A.I. to clinical notes, I wanted to build a language model based on the abstracts of case reports because in some ways that is a model for clinical notes and we could get a lot of them.<p>We decided not to do that though because case reports aren&#x27;t a good model for clinical notes in that the distribution of conditions involved is different and because case reports are written in much better English than clinical notes.

I know this is very niche at present. But, in future, technology like this could also be handy for anyone into genealogy. Trying to decipher the handwriting on old birth &amp; death certificates can be next to impossible at times. I&#x27;ve always been puzzled as to why there wasn&#x27;t a requirement to fill in such important forms in block capitals, rather than allowing the registrars to use their own and often &#x27;doctor-esque&#x27; handwriting.