by Avantpage | Apr 22, 2010 | Healthcare News
This week I read an engaging and informative survey report released by the California HealthCare Foundation (CHCF) detailing Americans’ usage of personal health records, or PHRs. What’s a PHR? According to the American Health Information Management...
by Avantpage | Mar 23, 2010 | Healthcare Translation
Research shows that the per-patient costs of Language Assistance are low, while providing services in a culturally and linguistically appropriate (CLAS) manner leads to better patient outcomes and significantly lower costs to the system. With minorities providing most...
by Avantpage | Mar 9, 2010 | Healthcare Translation
Translation attestation is an important regulatory requirement for Federal Medicare and California Language Assistance programs (Executive Order 13166, California Code of Regulations sections 1300.67.8 and 1304.67.04, and California Insurance Code sections 82538.1 to...
by Avantpage | Feb 1, 2010 | Healthcare Translation
The International Medical Interpreters Association (IMIA) has been recruiting medical interpreters interested in doing field work in Haiti. The USNS Comfort is assisting Haitian victims since the disaster took place. The American Red Cross in Miami is organizing the...
by Avantpage | Jan 6, 2010 | Translation
According to data from the United States Census of 2000, the top five languages other than English most widely spoken by Californians in their homes are Spanish, Chinese, Tagalog, Vietnamese, and Korean. Together, these languages are spoken by approximately 83 percent...
