Plain Language and Health Literacy Blog
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 client 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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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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