technology and communication

In my opinion technology is really helping a lot to overcome the communication barrier in health care. Many patients get admitted to the hospital who are either not able to speak English or understand the language. Now a days many hospitals uses a service called language hotline, where they have interpreters for specific languages to help the nurses deal with the patients.
Some hospitals are also thinking of setting up videoconferencing technique to help nurses overcome the communication barrier they face with non-English speaking patients. In video conferencing an interpreter sitting in a remote area can observe the patient and the nurse at the same time and would be better able to guide them both on how to overcome the language barrier.