Amazon Will Sell AI Software For Reading Medical Records

The Wall Street Journal has reported that Amazon plans to sell software capable of reading medical records. This software can also offer suggestions to the user about improving treatment effectiveness and the best way to save money.

The report says the software scans medical files and identifies relevant information including patient's procedures, medical conditions, and prescriptions. A lot of software has been also trying to reach this goal, but they had a trouble in reading the doctor's acronyms. But Amazon has said it has installed its system to identify the consistency between doctor's acronyms in the doctor's logbook.

Amazon plans to sell software that reads medical records

The same software was also reported by Amazon to have been developed and sold to companies related to customer service and travel booking. The health care market is always profitable and developing and Amazon does not miss this chance. In June, the online retailer bought PillPack online pharmacy.

Last year, Microsoft focused on improving patient care with the launch of a new division of healthcare. In addition, Apple also launched a new feature in partnership with the Department of Veterans, which allows veterans to access their electronic records with the iPhone earlier this month. According to Apple, the company's smartwatch - the Apple Watch - has always been a medical device, not a fitness device. That's why it has partnered with Stanford University to research health, including an FDA-cleared electrocardiogram (ECG) function in the latest version of this wearable health care device.

Creating high-tech health care devices is a huge challenge, so many companies have to stop in the middle of the road. For example, Google Life Sciences had to end the process when it was developing a high-end program capable of detecting glucose from human tears.

Amazon has spent a lot of time researching textual analysis, so expanding the market to healthcare makes sense for the technology giant. But the field of electronic medical records has always been controversial. There has been a multifaceted push in the electronicization of patient medical records, which also leads to a paper path with many gaps and scattered and fragmented.

Dr. Atul Gawande has written a paper titled "Why Doctors Hate Their Computers," published in the New Yorker newspaper, saying that doctors are very confused and frustrated by the whole process of working with electricity and technology devices. They argue that different software systems for medical records exhausted them.

We do not yet know the effectiveness of this software and its ability to contribute to the digitization of medical records. Amazon has not yet released details about this software, so we still do not know what it is capable of. But it is expected that Amazon's entry into this market will help teethe in electronic medical records be debugged and develop electronic processes in health and not further aggravate the problem currently available in the field. this market.