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Podcast: Healthcare IT Today Interviews
Episode: Secure Language Translation Device by Pocketalk Enables Better Patient Communication
Description: Hospitals and clinics in some areas see enormous numbers of people who don't speak the local language well. While human interpreters have been common in exam rooms during patient care, it turns out that interpretation is beneficial throughout many areas of healthcare that previously haven't had easy access to interpretation. That's the problem Pocketalk addresses with technology that provides secure language translation throughout a healthcare organization.Pocketalk is differentiated from consumer translation services by prioritizing security and providing technology that’s optimized for healthcare, which is both HIPAA and GDPR compliant. By default, Pocketalk has translation history tu...