Category | Price | Seller | Device |
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Medical | Free | NiteFloat, Inc. | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
MediBabble currently downloads with English and Spanish included. Additional languages –– French, Mandarin, Cantonese, Russian, German, and Haitian Creole –– are available as free downloads from within the application.
Features
- Contains thousands of translated questions and instructions all playable as high-quality audio recordings
- Thoughtfully organized by symptom to facilitate comprehensive or targeted medical history-taking all the way from chief complaint to review of systems
- A thorough physical exam section provides phrases used to prepare, position, instruct and educate patients during an exam
- Seven languages currently available: English, Spanish, French, Cantonese, Mandarin, Russian and Haitian Creole
- Tested in large university and county hospital settings, including emergency departments, inpatient wards, intensive care units, and perioperative environments
- Does not require internet connectivity once downloaded
- All content written and reviewed by a panel of physicians
- Each phrase closely reviewed by at least two medically-trained native speakers for accuracy, cultural appropriateness, and accessibility to patients of varying levels of education and health literacy
For Attending and Community providers
- Easily and intuitively organized for obtaining rapid, focused histories
- Reduce the steep costs of relying exclusively on translator phones for communication with your non-English speaking patients
- Avoid the pitfall of relying on your patient's family and friends for translation
For Nurses
- Useful for admissions, initial assessments, physical examinations and routine follow-up questioning
- Easy to switch between languages when caring for multiple non-English speaking patients
- Avoid the pitfall of relying on your patient's family and friends for translation
- Nursing-specific content module coming soon!
For House Staff
- Allows rapid and targeted patient evaluation without having to wait for live interpreters or navigate cumbersome translation phones
- Facilitates timely-follow up history-taking after initial assessment
- Easily switch languages between patients at the press of a button
- Avoid the pitfall of relying on your patient's family and friends for translation
For Medical Students
- Clearly laid out scripts for obtaining histories for the most common medical and surgical complaints (useful even with English-speaking patients, as a prompt and a learning tool)
- Facilitates comprehensive history-taking from HPI to ROS
For Hospital Administrators
- Reduce the steep costs of relying exclusively on live translation services for communication with non-English speaking patients
- Improve patient satisfaction