How EU Medical Device Regulation Affects Translation Services

How EU Medical Device Regulation Affects Translation Services Script: In 2017, the European Parliament passed the European Union Medical Device Regulation (MDR). This new law introduced a variety of changes to the medical device manufacturing industry, including stricter oversight regulations and improved transparency rules. Given the fact that companies must comply with these new regulations,…

How Hospitals Can Provide Excellent Medical Interpreting For Patients

How Hospitals Can Provide Excellent Medical Interpreting For Patients Script: Communication between patients and caregivers is essential to positive healthcare outcomes. However, access to language services, specifically medical interpreting services, is often difficult for certain communities. Oftentimes doctors will ask a patient’s bilingual family member to offer amateur interpreting services. Having a non-certified person like…

3 Challenges Related To Medical Translation

3 Challenges Related To Medical Translation Script: Providing medical translation services can be challenging when equivalents to scientific and health-related terms don’t exist in other languages. These issues are inevitable when creating accurate translations across languages. Being a translator in the medical industry demands a deep understanding of relevant vocabulary in two or more languages.…

How Language Barriers Affect Global Patient Recruitment

How Language Barriers Affect Global Patient Recruitment Script: Due to a number of factors including higher patient recruitment rates, clinical trials are increasingly outsourced to emerging regions – particularly Latin America, Central and Eastern Europe, and Asia. Successful international trial initiation, however, is greatly dependent on choosing the right language service partner to provide quality and accurate translation of global patient recruitment materials. Most…

Case Study: Providing Clinical Study Translations For A Long-Time Client

 Case Study: Clinical Study Translation For CHDI Language Connections has years of experience providing life science translation services for global clinical studies that are essential for drug approval. The need for high-quality language services to reach global patient populations is critical, especially when it comes to clinical study translations. CHDI Foundation (CHDI), a large nonprofit…

Chinese Interpreting In The Pharma Industry

Chinese Interpreting In The Pharma Industry Script: China is one of the largest pharmaceutical markets and home to the world’s largest single-payer healthcare system. The National Bureau of statistics reports that investments in China’s pharmaceutical industry have increased dramatically in recent years. In order for companies to gain a competitive edge in the industry, they…