ULG's Language Services Blog

3 Ways Healthcare Organizations Can Use Language Access Technology to Improve the Patient Experience

Every patient deserves to be understood, no matter their language or communication needs. Empowering your healthcare organization to better connect with patients who have language needs, accessibility...

Are you prepared for annual enrollment? Here are six key steps to help your organization ensure all members’ language access needs are covered.

In every annual enrollment period, health plans need to ensure they meet compliance standards, tight deadlines, and budgetary requirements. This year, with updates to Section 1557 of the Affordable Ca...

How Technology Can Enhance Language Access

The need for clear, instant communication across languages is exploding in healthcare, education, courtrooms, and more. Compliance with relevant regulations is a key driver of this demand, but it's no...

Accessibility in Healthcare: Language Access & Alternate Formats

As we step into 2024, healthcare organizations are embracing a pivotal role as champions of equity and accessibility. In the current regulatory environment, inclusive care and equal access to critical...

Shaping Health Equity: The Role of Language Services in 2024

The focus on health equity continues to be a pivotal force in the healthcare industry's evolution. With 2024 on the horizon, health systems and health plans are set to intensify their efforts to addre...

How to Provide a Seamless Digital Healthcare Experience for Multilingual Consumers

Whether it’s through websites, apps, patient portals, SMS, or chat, healthcare consumers are demanding the same easy and user-friendly digital experiences they’ve grown accustomed to from retail, bank...

The Future of Interpretation: 3 Questions to Ask to Stay on the Cutting Edge

In this day and age, our comfort with and desire for remote communication is stronger than ever before, creating new challenges and opportunities. One relevant example is from healthcare: the telemedi...

How Cultural Intelligence Drives Relevant, Engaged Experiences

Creating culturally relevant experiences is essential for businesses that are trying to engage with multicultural audiences. In a recent blog post, we described how cultural irrelevance can hurt your ...

Building the Business Case for Creating Culturally Intelligent Experiences

Multicultural consumers are now the fastest-growing group of consumers in the United States and currently represent 42% of the U.S. population. Also, non-U.S. markets represent 84% of the world’s purc...

How Translation and Interpretation Support Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

The U.S. population is becoming increasingly diverse. According to the Collage Group, between 2013 and 2019, the U.S. multicultural population accounts for more than 100% of the country’s growth and m...

5 Steps to Developing a Language Access Plan

Did you know that one in five people in the U.S. speaks a language other than English at home? Imagine them navigating a life where every conversation, every piece of information, feels just out of re...