Tag: Healthcare

To achieve herd immunity against the coronavirus, officials will need the help of credible community messengers to reach vaccine hesitant individuals.
We attended the Many Faces of Community Health, a Minnesota-based conference on improving the care to underserved communities. We were lucky to exhibit as well. Click for our summary!
Communication, especially during a pandemic, is more than just language. Language access managers can borrow strategies from community outreach approaches to improve language access.
Providing medical interpreters during telehealth calls can be a challenge for many healthcare systems. Three-way video calls from a secure video remote interpreting (VRI) platform is an effective solution.
In-person interpreting is still a critical service during the pandemic, but with in-person care volume down and virtual care volume up, language access managers will need to find a different way to use their skills.
Before the coronavirus pandemic, telehealth adoption was slow. Now, it's highly unlikely anyone will be able to put that genie back in the bottle.
It's likely telemedicine will stick around after the pandemic, which means healthcare organizations will need to involve stakeholders of diverse backgrounds to determine a permanent telemedicine strategy. This needs to include language access professionals.
Medical interpreters can help providers deliver comprehensive education about vaccines, which will be especially helpful once one is developed for the coronavirus.
A final rule has been issued regarding Section 1557 of ACA. See how these new changes affect language access.

In late February at a press briefing, officials from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) addressed concerns and answered questions about novel coronavirus (or COVID-19). CDC spokesperson Benjamin Haynes stated that it’s not a matter of “if” the new virus will see community spread throughout the United States, but “when.” And indeed he […]

You worked hard to ensure your organization has interpreting services. The problem? No one is using them. The solution? Language access materials.
Before you dive into your VRI implementation strategy, take a step back and make sure the IT infrastructure in your healthcare system can handle what you have in store.