Hospitals implement video translation service
Case Management Weekly, January 25, 2006
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A video-based translation service soon will be launched at two public hospitals in
Participating hospitals use a secure, high-speed data line to connect to translators. When a non-English-speaking patient comes into one of the hospital's units, such as the emergency department or one of several medical clinics, the doctor, case manager, or even the admitting clerk attending to that patient turns on the video unit and in 15 seconds connects with a live interpreter.
The service, called the Health Care Interpreter Network, was funded by an initial $458,000 grant by the U.S. Department of Commerce Technology Opportunities Program.
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