Can multilingual machine translation help make medical record content more comprehensible to patients?

Studies in Health Technology and Informatics

Volumn 160, Issue PART 1, 2010, Pages 73-77

  Zeng Treitler, Qing ^a   Kim, Hyeoneui ^b   Rosemblat, Graciela ^c   Keselman, Alla ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Comprehension; Consumer health information; Medical records; Translating

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; COMPUTER AIDED LANGUAGE TRANSLATION; FISH;

COMPREHENSION; CONSUMER HEALTH INFORMATION; GAINING ACCESS; MACHINE TRANSLATIONS; MEDICAL RECORD; MULTILINGUAL MACHINE TRANSLATION; PERSONAL HEALTH RECORD; TRANSLATING;

ELECTRONIC DOCUMENT EXCHANGE;

EID: 78649612846     PISSN: 09269630     EISSN: 18798365     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.3233/978-1-60750-588-4-73     Document Type: Conference Paper

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