OCR can read a prescription. It can't tell you what the medication is.
That sounds odd, so here's the difference.
After OCR, a scanned prescription becomes text:
"Amoxicillin 500 mg twice daily for 7 days"
That's a real step forward. The page is no longer a flat image.
But to...
one diagnosis. Five different ways to write it.
Type 2 Diabetes. T2DM. DM2. Diabetes mellitus type II. Type II diabetic.
A clinician sees one concept. A software system sees five different strings, which makes healthcare data hard to search, compare and integrate.
The...