The health care industry is a critical sector that helps save people’s lives. Sometimes, medical professionals and patients have communication barriers that can hinder that process. However, the great ...

Remote medical interpreting (RMI) may be hindering healthcare communication rather than helping it, according to a new study from the University of Surrey. As the healthcare sector leaned heavily on ...

When a doctor can't find an interpreter, many now reach for Google Translate. It seems like a practical fix to a pressing ...

Among many factors that determine an individual’s access to healthcare, the language of medicine stresses a fundamental distinction between communication and transaction. To access healthcare is to ...

Perhaps there's a way we can get automation to help us eliminate some of the rote things we are asked to do that have little to nothing to do with the art and science of practicing medicine. As we ...

Roxana Del Barco is the Medical Interpretation Coordinator at University of Maryland Medical Center and the Maryland State Chapter Chair of the International Medical Interpreters Association. She has ...

The heart of Sergio Choy’s job as a medical interpreter is to capture the spirit of the message between patient and medical provider. “You hear things like, ‘I’m feeling a little blue today,’ in ...

At the University of Louisville hospital in Kentucky, dozens of patients each day need the help of an interpreter to understand their medical conditions and make informed choices about their care.

Last spring, Lourdes Cerna, a fifty-eight-year-old medical interpreter, received a phone call from a hospital in Texas. In Cerna’s home, in Los Angeles, the audio crackled to life; on the other end of ...

Vietnamese interpreter Siu Williams and her fellow linguists are in such demand at Stanford Hospital that the sprawling campus has become like a trampoline and the hallways like treadmills. “We bounce ...