Funding cuts, immigration crackdowns, an executive order declaring English the nation’s official language and a lack of clarification from HHS on medical interpretation requirements have left medical ...

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 ...

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 ...

Lexington Medical Center is helping bridge language gaps in healthcare by offering interpreters, ensuring non-English ...

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 ...

Debbie Lesser is a catalyst, facilitating crucial conversations taking place in often highly sensitive situations. As a certified medical interpreter for one of the largest health systems in the ...

TOKYO >> During one of her medical-interpreting lessons this summer, instructor Yoshiko Ishizaka brought up the case of a former student who was dealing with schizophrenia. The principal of ...