Plain Language and Health Literacy Blog
Professional Interpreters
Many people grow up loving language and wanting to become a professional interpreter. Interpreting as a profession is heralded by a few modern conventions: (1) neutrality, (2) confidentiality, and (3) competence.
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...
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...
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...
5 Reasons for Translating Open Enrollment Communication Materials
Here are five reasons for Benefit Managers and Consultants to consider Translating Open Enrollment Communication materials.
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...
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...
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 healthcare...
English to Vietnamese Healthcare Translations
When we are requested to do Healthcare Translations from English to Vietnamese, 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 by people...
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...