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Information remains a powerful weapon, even more, in the circumstances around the world these days.
First up, VRI
Language integration in telehealth is becoming increasingly critical, as more and more patients demand virtual care solutions to meet their healthcare needs. Organizations are starting to incorporate interpreting services at the point of care, realizing that, regardless of what platform is used, it needs to be accessible to all patients with skilled medical interpreting thoughtfully integrated.
Hospitals and healthcare systems are using videoconferencing platforms like Zoom, GoToMeeting, and Webex for virtual care delivery, but these systems were not specifically designed to easily add skilled medical interpreters into a session. And questions surrounding security and confidentiality have caused concern and led many healthcare providers to seek out interpreting services and platforms that reduce the risks.
Secure, HIPAA-compliant interpreter-assisted telehealth solutions, such as three-way video remote interpreting (VRI) call features, ensure providers can quickly connect to a remote LEP patient with an interpreter already on the line — offering the advantages of face-to-face communication from a safe distance. It’s an effective way for providers to stay connected to their LEP patients and limit exposure to illnesses.
Technology to overcome language barriers
COVID-19 pandemic has changed our lives. We are all working and communicating in different ways. We’re learning, adapting, and figuring out how to stay safe but also how to maintain our connections with one another. For deaf people, society’s response to the pandemic has created new obstacles not just in everyday life but also in terms of their equal access to Health and Social Care.
With Video Remote Interpreting (VRI), the deaf person and health and social care practitioner are in the same location. They access an interpreter online via a secure video link (e.g. a tablet, smartphone, or computer). It’s like the interpreter is in the room.
Pfizer vaccine trial success signals breakthrough in the pandemic battle
Pfizer Inc's PFE.N experimental COVID-19 vaccine is more than 90% effective based on initial trial results, the drugmaker said on Monday, a major victory in the war against a virus that has killed over a million people and battered the world's economy.
“Today is a great day for science and humanity,” said Pfizer Chief Executive Albert Bourla, noting the data milestone comes with “infection rates setting new records, hospitals nearing over-capacity and economies struggling to reopen.”
Experts said they wanted to see the full trial data, but the preliminary results looked encouraging.
“This news made me smile from ear to ear. It is a relief to see such positive results on this vaccine and bodes well for COVID-19 vaccines in general,” said Peter Horby, professor of emerging infectious diseases at the University of Oxford.
With COVID-19 vaccine trial results looking positive, governments and pharmaceutical firms face their next daunting challenge: convincing the world to get inoculated. The World Health Organization estimates that about 70% of people must be inoculated to break the transmission of the virus.
Experts are also cautioning any conversation over a vaccine’s risks and rewards must be frank. A return to normal life will still take time, with no one shot likely to be a silver bullet. And many questions are likely to remain, including how long a vaccine will provide protection.
The Social Media Managers are not okay
Until recently, Christina Garnett worked at a global agency managing social media accounts for Fortune 500 companies, running a team that moderated and responded to people’s online questions. During the first months of the pandemic, she would wake up at 3 a.m. or 4 a.m., anxiously checking her phone and email to see if there was yet another crisis that required a quick response: Did the stock market crash? Did the president tweet about a specific brand? Was there a potential COVID-19 vaccine?
The 37-year-old social strategist often felt depressed and misunderstood by upper management, who didn’t fully understand how much time, effort, and stress social media work entails — and how toxic it can be for those who perform it every day, for hours and hours. “They don’t know what it’s like to live in that Twitter feed… to live in the comments section and to be able to see a populace that is agitated, that feels hopeless, that feels angry, that feels powerless,” she says. “It has turned to a point where we are either crying into the void or we’re yelling at it.”
Quotes about social media
Despite its perpetual evolution, though, social media will always have one constant -- people. For the most part, human behavior has stayed the same for thousands of years, which means the principles of psychology are unwavering. So if you want to succeed on social media, you need to focus more on the people using it than the trends changing it.
To help you develop an audience-centric social media strategy, HubSpot compiled these insightful quotes about social media from executives, marketers, and even celebrities. "It's a dialogue, not a monologue, and some people don't understand that. Social media is more like a telephone than a television." - Amy Jo Martin, Author of Renegades Write The Rules.
Social media analytics tools for marketers
These days, businesses across every industry are investing in social media marketing. But no matter how great your social media content is or how many people follow your accounts, you won't be able to grow your audience, reach, and presence if you don't understand the data behind it all.
In-depth knowledge about the status and success of your social media marketing will offer actionable insight into things like which strategies should remain in place and what you should change or experiment with in order to grow. Social media analytics tools are able to help you with just that.
Last but not least
An article recommended by Mário Júnior, CEO of AP | PORTUGAL Tech Language Solutions >> How many more Earths are out there, if any? How many far-flung planets exist that could harbor life as we know it? So far, none have shown any sign of life or habitation. (Granted, they are very far away and hard to study.) Extrapolated, that figure suggests that there are billions of exoplanets in the Milky Way galaxy. But how many of those are potentially habitable?
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