{"id":44198,"date":"2016-01-21T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-01-21T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/michigan-it-company-tackles-dangerous-language-barriers-in-healthcare\/"},"modified":"2016-01-21T09:02:17","modified_gmt":"2016-01-21T13:02:17","slug":"compania-de-tecnologia-de-informacion-de-michigan-aborda-barreras-linguisticas-peligrosas-en-la-atencion-medica","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/compania-de-tecnologia-de-informacion-de-michigan-aborda-barreras-linguisticas-peligrosas-en-la-atencion-medica\/","title":{"rendered":"Michigan IT Company Tackles Dangerous Language Barriers In Healthcare"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<style type=\"text\/css\"><![CDATA[\n\/* Style Definitions *\/\nspan.prnews_span\n{\nfont-size:8pt;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\n}\na.prnews_a\n{\ncolor:blue;\n}\nli.prnews_li\n{\nfont-size:8pt;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\n}\np.prnews_p\n{\nfont-size:0.62em;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\nmargin:0in;\n}\n]]><\/style>\n<div class=\"xn-content\">\n<p><span class=\"xn-location\">ANN ARBOR, Michigan<\/span>, <span class=\"xn-chron\">Jan. 21, 2016<\/span> \/PRNewswire-HISPANIC PR WIRE\/ &#8212;\u00a0In the US today, 20% of the population has Limited English Proficiency (LEP), which accounts for over 65 million people.\u00a0 For healthcare facilities, patients with LEP have a higher rate of hospital readmission and longer in-patient stays.\u00a0 Trained interpreters help overcome the existing communication barriers; however, the availability of resources, the ease of access, and the usage of an interpreter is suboptimal.\u00a0 Eloquence Communications, Inc. has created the <b>Language Access Solution<\/b> (LAS), a comprehensive solution that resolves this dilemma by removing barriers to translation\/interpretation for patients, caregivers, and healthcare facilities on a cost effective, 24-7-365 basis.<\/p>\n<p>Video &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=jpW-XsqkN-I\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=jpW-XsqkN-I<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Photo &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/photos.prnewswire.com\/prnh\/20160120\/324206\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/photos.prnewswire.com\/prnh\/20160120\/324206<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Logo &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/photos.prnewswire.com\/prnh\/20160120\/324205LOGO\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/photos.prnewswire.com\/prnh\/20160120\/324205LOGO<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Eloquence&#8217;s <b>Language Access Solution<\/b> (LAS) empowers patients and caregivers by providing patients immediate access to a live interpreter with the touch of a digital button.\u00a0 Without this cost-effective, interpretive tool, patients are far more likely to experience a misdiagnosis, greater risk of medication reactions, have an increased risk of medical non-compliance, and have a higher rate of readmission.\u00a0 Equally as valuable, the touchscreen tablet device displays 30 of the most common requests in their native language. If a patient is in need of assistance, is experiencing pain, or needs a drink of water, their request is routed to the appropriate caregiver on their mobile device. The nurse or aide acknowledges the request and a confirmation is sent back to the patient \u2013 translated to their preferred language.\u00a0 Ultimately this uses hospital staffing resources more effectively and efficiently.\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p>For hospitals and healthcare facilities, the LAS system is customizable, intuitive, requires no capital expense, and its WIFI connectivity makes installation less disruptive to patient care.\u00a0 According to Dr. <span class=\"xn-person\">Lance Patak<\/span>, co-founder of Eloquence Communications, <i>&#8220;Eloquence understands the unique challenges nursing staff and patients face every day to communicate effectively and efficiently.\u00a0 We have committed this company to helping healthcare facilities achieve optimal staffing allocation and workflow efficiency while driving improvements in patient communication, safety, outcomes, and satisfaction, in an impactful way.&#8221;<\/i><\/p>\n<p><b>About Eloquence Communications<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Eloquence Communications is a healthcare IT company founded by Dr. <span class=\"xn-person\">Lance Patak<\/span> and Dr. <span class=\"xn-person\">Bryan Traughber<\/span>, two practicing physicians dedicated to improving the delivery of care through the development of innovative and simple communication solutions. Eloquence implements evidence-based healthcare IT solutions that deliver greater specificity, precision, transparency, and language access.<\/p>\n<p>For more information about Eloquence Communications and the Language Access Solution program, contact:<br \/>Eloquence Communications<br \/>855-422-3567<br \/><a href=\"mailto:sales@eloquencecomm.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">sales@eloquencecomm.com<\/a> <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"xn-content\">\n<p><span class=\"xn-location\">ANN ARBOR, Michigan<\/span>, <span class=\"xn-chron\">Jan. 21, 2016<\/span> \/PRNewswire-HISPANIC PR WIRE\/ &#8212;\u00a0In the US today, 20% of the population has Limited English Proficiency (LEP), which accounts for over 65 million people.\u00a0 For healthcare facilities, patients with LEP have a higher rate of hospital readmission and longer in-patient stays.\u00a0 Trained interpreters help overcome the existing communication barriers; however, the availability of resources, the ease of access, and the usage of an interpreter is suboptimal.\u00a0 Eloquence&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":44199,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-internet-y-tecnologia"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44198\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}