Common people, people within the pharmaceutical industry and sometimes the fellow doctors have great difficulty in deciphering the prescription of the doctor. The main motive is to digitalize medical prescriptions and elimination of handwritten prescriptions altogether. There by eliminating the issues, mistreatments and death caused by misread/misinterpreted drug names attributed to the illegible handwriting of medical practitioners. There have been numerous devices designed to electronically read the handwriting of doctors, including electronic character recognition, keyword spotters, and post processing approaches, though the gradual shift to electronic health records and electronic prescriptions may alleviate the need for handwritten prescriptions all together. Thus, to entirely eliminate the very traditional handwritten prescription we have come-up with the idea of voice command based automated prescription generator. Speech to text with command-based prescription typing with AI algorithm is the core innovation of the project. Prescription thus developed and generated will be followed by digital signature of the doctor. The digital signature of the physician is used as the attestation for the generated prescription. Prescription will be provided in the digital form, via email to the patient/ guardian. Storage of the prescription in the EHR (Electronic Health Record) will follow the HIPAA norms (Health Insurance Policy and Accountability Act) in the concerned hospital.
Key words: Electronic character recognition, EHR (Electronic Health Record), Digital signature.
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