Plain Language and Health Literacy Blog
Culturally Sensitive Medicine
Culturally Sensitive Medicine Culturally sensitive healthcare includes everything from marketing to patient education to service provision. With our focus and expertise on healthcare translations, we have previously written several times on topics such as targeting...
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Linguistic Validation – Who, What, and Why?
Linguistic Validation is a set of processes designed to ensure that a translation is linguistically accurate, culturally appropriate, and validated by a professional in the field. It is a process mostly used in the translation of clinical trials, one our areas of...
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Healthcare marketing to Millennials
When designing healthcare marketing to Millennials, consider that 21 percent are Hispanic and speak a foreign language at home. Millennials, who account for 75.3 million people in the U.S., are more racially and ethnically diverse than any prior generation. Their...
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5 Reasons for Translating Open Enrollment Communication Materials
Here are five reasons for Benefit Managers and Consultants to consider Translating Open Enrollment Communication materials.
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Readability Adjustment
We received an interesting email from another translation firm the other day seeking to add vendors who could assist them with readability adjustment. Many clients of this translation and interpretation firm have been requesting this service more and more. First of...
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Decision to translate hashtags
The decision to translate hashtags and manage and cultivate a social media campaign around that requires planning. Think of the English campaign creation and the work that goes into the brand creation and the hashtags that reinforce that message. When that copy goes...
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Revised Common Rule (45 CFR 46) incorporates health literacy principles
On July 20, 2018, the Office for Human Research Protections (OHRP) made available guidance documents that relate to the three burden-reducing provisions in the revised Common Rule. Institutions may choose to implement these three provisions during the delay period for...
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Responsible Medical Translations
Providing responsible medical translations at every step of the way during the healthcare journey is a major challenge for a health organization. In the Healthcare industry, many foreign language speaking patients go through a fragmented system of...
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English to Vietnamese Healthcare Translations
When we are requested to do translations of English to Vietnamese Healthcare Translations, we have to be mindful of generational differences in the language. According to the Census Bureau, the Vietnamese language in the United States is the fifth most spoken language...
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Translation for narration
Now is the season for Open Enrollment at many companies and presentations are being given on employee benefits and the audio recording of those presentations requires translation for narration. In our specialization of translation of healthcare human resource...
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