Plain Language and Health Literacy Blog
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...
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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 healthcare translations, our clients come to us...
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5 quick tips about Healthcare Translations
Need tips about healthcare translations? Healthcare Translations appear in many different types of Healthcare Communications. Our clients range from Health Plans, Pharmacy Benefit Managers, Pharmaceutical Companies to Medical Device Manufacturers, and each focuses on...
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How to handle repetition in healthcare translations
This post is about the process for handling this scenario in healthcare translations and recommendations for clients to think about when authoring such communications and how they may want to find efficiencies on their end.
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Healthcare translations for Hispanics with HIV
In our work with healthcare translations, we do quite a bit of patient education for Hispanics with HIV. Some of the challenges when working in healthcare translations for a particular population are to find the current terminology that is being used.
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Translating Conditional Statements in Mail Merge Fields
Translating Conditional Statements in Word is a challenge because our industry does not seem to have quite figured out how to process these. Sometimes you have to resort to the old fashioned of working, realizing it will pay off in the long run.
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Build trust and respect for patients
In our work with healthcare translations and health literacy communications in English, we consume a lot of research on what moves the patient to better outcomes and how we can build trust and respect for patients to improve healthcare.
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Cultural Competence in Healthcare Communications
How well are we doing with cultural competence in healthcare communications? Increasingly more diverse health populations complicates healthcare marketing and education efforts. We look at programs like open enrollment, pharmacy benefit communications, disease state awareness communications and other patient education.
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Using the teach back method for patient advocacy
The teach back method is used in many different types of scenarios when working one on one with patients but we are going to look at using the teach back method for patient advocacy on the phone. Your organization may have customer service representatives or clinical...
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