Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare for Language Translation
For several years, IBM worked on a handheld language translator that patients and healthcare providers could use in the clinic. It never worked well enough, and that may also be the case with iFlytek’s smartphone app, though progress is obvious. At Anhui Provincial Hospital (west of Shanghai), “Doctors . . . .are using iFlytek to dictate a patient’s vital signs, medications taken, and other bits of information into a mobile app, which then turns everything into written records. The app uses voice print technology as a signature system that cannot be falsified. The app is collecting data that will improve its algorithms over time.” A next step would be to “translate” symptoms into diagnoses with a high degree of accuracy. Hospitals in large international cities otherwise have to rely on human translators which are not always available or, if available, can be quite expensive. MORE
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