Vibe Health byeVideon, the leader in hospital smart room technology and digital workflow solutions, has announced its new partnership with LanguageLine Solutions, a global leader in language services, including interpretation and translation. Vibe Health is the first interactive patient care system to offer this fully integrated in-patient solution.
Language and culture are vital subjects in modern society. Each week, LanguageLine curates three related stories that we think should be top-of-mind. Here are this week's "Liner Notes."
Language barriers and cultural differences are among the reasons many Latino people, particularly men, avoid doctor visits – and that could lead to dire outcomes, experts warn.
Studies have suggested that of all racial and ethnic groups in the United States, Hispanic people are least likely to seek medical care for an illness. In a 2023 Pew Research Center survey, Hispanic adults were less likely than all U.S. adults to say they had seen a health care professional within the previous year.
An interpreter is a professional linguist who interprets speech for two or more individuals who do not speak the same language. Community interpreters are linguists who work in a specific geographic region.
Community interpreters allow people who are not fluent in the official language of a country to communicate with public service sector employees to get access to legal, health, education, governmental and social services.
Language and culture are vital subjects in modern society. Each week, LanguageLine curates three related stories that we think should be top-of-mind. Here are this week's "Liner Notes."
In 2020, the overall life expectancy in the U.S. dropped by 1.5 years, largely due to the COVID-19 pandemic. But the reduction wasn't shared equally among the general population; Native American people lost an average of 4.5 years of life expectancy; Black and Hispanic people lost, on average, 3 years, while white people lost only 1.2 years.
This figure tracks with other health trends: In general,Black and Hispanic people and those living in poverty in the U.S. have worse health outcomes — more high blood pressure, higher rates of diabetes and increased maternal and infant mortality — than the overall population.
Public health researcher Arline Geronimus says the traditional belief that the disparities are due to genetics, diet and exercise don't explain data that's accumulated over the years. Instead, she makes the case that marginalized people suffer nearly constant stress from living with poverty and discrimination, which damages their bodies at the cellular level and leads to increasingly serious health problems over time.
The U.S. has grown to become the second-largest Spanish-speaking country in the world, behind only Mexico. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the Hispanic population now accounts for one in five people living in America, as it has grown 23 percent over the past decade to 62.1 million.
Localization for the gaming industry has become increasingly important. Gaming has become a juggernaut as large as the film industry, with projections indicating that it will surpass $138 billion in revenue by the end of this year.
Gaming’s audience is truly global, with over 2.8 billion gamers worldwide. While the Asian Pacific region boasts the largest share of gamers, North America remains a stronghold of game consumption.
Gaming’s massive scope presents significant revenue potential and a series of complex challenges when it comes to localizing content.
Language and culture are vital subjects in modern society. Each week, LanguageLine curates three related stories that we think should be top-of-mind. Here are this week's "Liner Notes."
Immigrants and their U.S.-born children number approximately 87.7 million people, or close to 27 percent of the U.S. population. This is an increase of approximately 14.7 million (or 20 percent) from 2010, according to a report from Migration Policy Institute.
Cory Markert, Vice President of Sales for Translation Services at LanguageLine Solutions, shares the impact of providing on-demand interpreters and access to multilingual patient portals on patient experience. These comments were originally recorded for a Learning Bite video created by The Beryl Institute. The video can be viewed below.
The COVID-19 pandemic forced healthcare’s digital transformation to accelerate. When it began, we quickly heard from a large number of clients who were struggling with how to make digital care accessible to all patients, and not just those who spoke English.
Language and culture are vital subjects in modern society. Each week, LanguageLine curates three related stories that we think should be top-of-mind. Here are this week's "Liner Notes."
Families with limited English proficiency are less likely to question their child’s hospital care, a study has found.
Communication failures are a known source of medical errors and are especially likely to occur when there are language barriers. A new study at 21 children’s hospitals throughout the U.S., led by Alisa Khan, MD, MPH, at Boston Children’s Hospital, surveyed patients and family caregivers. Researchers found that many who lack proficiency in English feel less safe asking questions and speaking up during their hospital stay.
When Jamieson Brill answers a crisis call from a Spanish speaker on the recently launched national 988 mental health helpline, he rarely mentions the word suicide, or “suicido.”
Brill’s family is from Puerto Rico. He knows that just discussing the term in some Spanish-speaking cultures is so frowned upon that many callers are reluctant to even admit they’re calling for themselves.
