LanguageMate.com: About Us

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LanguageMate® is a leader in the development of innovative healthcare informatics solutions. Our mission is to create tools that enable care providers to communicate effectively with their patients, improve quality of care and reduce the costs associated with service delivery. Vulnerable populations, including individuals with low functional health literacy and immigrants who do not speak the dominant language of their adopted country, face significant barriers to obtaining adequate treatment at medical facilities. They are more likely than others to defer essential medical care, leave a clinic without adequate discharge instructions, and miss follow-up appointments. They are also less likely to maintain continuity of care by remaining with their current providers, or to settle debts incurred by their treatment. Enabling healthcare providers to communicate with all patients in a linguistically competent and culturally sensitive manner is at the core of our mission.

Supported by over a dozen awards from the National Institutes of Health, LanguageMate® is creating a comprehensive suite of technology-enabled tools to address the communication challenges in healthcare. Our team consists of experts in linguistics, anthropology, cross-cultural communication, medicine, public health, and health education as well as professionals in information technology, interactive design, multimedia production and business management. By delivering innovative solutions, we are helping patients and service providers transcend the barriers of language, culture, technology and geography.