Evaluation Report: Remote Simultaneous Medical Interpretation Executive Summary

Sep 01, 2015
  • Description

In 2011, as a result of the growing refugee population, an innovative project launched to improve the quality of language interpretation services in healthcare facilities. Providing interpreter services can be costly and challenging to administrators, particularly for smaller institutions and for less commonly spoken language groups. A Remote Simultaneous Medical Interpretation service (RSMI) was designed to decrease the cost of medical interpretation while increasing the quality of services.