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Translation Services: The Medical Translation Center

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The Medical Translation Center (MTC), available through LSI's partnership in AdvaMed's Business Solutions program, is a leading provider of language translation and related services.

The Center is operated by Linguistic Systems, Inc. of Cambridge, Massachusetts, and provides personalized service for:

• Culturally adapted (localized) translation of promotional material, instructions for use, manuals, labels, MSDS specifications, and other documentation required to meet EU and other government regulations to sell and distribute medical products in foreign countries

• Language conversion of clinical trial documentation for review and submission to government regulatory agencies

• Translation services for patents, contracts, journal articles, training material, software, business reports, proposals, A/V presentations, multilingual Web sites, and other materials needed to support global business and information gathering from foreign sources

• Simultaneous and consecutive interpreting services for conferences, training, negotiations, medical exams, hospital patient needs, etc. for real-time language assistance

• Production services such as DTP and A/V in more than 50 languages to complete the language conversion process

• Fast turnaround through an online ordering and delivery service with machine translation in 8 languages paired with English and augmented by human editing and translation

• Significant time and cost savings through the use of translation memory tools to capture and re-use translation for repeat materials

• Control of correct terminology by maintaining client database with automatic look-up for full terminology consistency

• Coverage of 115 languages

• Notarized certification of translation when requested.

Among LSI’s clients are many of the world’s leading medical companies and institutions, such as:

Subject knowledge is the hallmark of The Medical Translation Center’s work.

Product Literature and A/V
Based on LSI’s 38 years of translating promotional material, manuals, videos, instructions for use, labels, MSDSs, and other material, the Center is the medical industry’s finest source for language conversion of literature and A/V that is culturally adapted for foreign markets. Working in all common formats and national languages, the Center offers a complete turnkey package service for advertising, training, packaging, databases, Websites, and information. Whether the need is a single language or twenty, the Center will deliver on a timely basis the consistent quality your market demands and you expect from this resource.

Regulatory Submissions and Clinical Trials
Government agencies generally require submissions to be prepared in their national language. When clinical trials are conducted in another country and records exist only in a different language, the data to be submitted must be accurately translated. And it must be done in a timely way to avoid missing critical deadlines. Legibility of handwritten entries often becomes a significant factor.  

The Medical Translation Center has the technical expertise and native target language translators to ensure that these vital records, including all handwritten entries, are completely translated with careful proofreading for 100% accuracy. Formatting is preserved to replicate the original documents, and a memory tool is used to capture repeat translation, which may be as much as thousands of pages for large volume documentation. The workload is shared by a production team that is always adequate to meet deadlines. When records are confidential and cannot be removed from the medical site of the trials, the Center will provide an on-site team insofar as feasible. On-site work is always more expensive, but sometimes it is desirable to clarify issues through discussion with the client’s professionals.

Intellectual Property
The Medical Translation Center provides patent translations prepared by experts who have many years of working in this specialized field. Principal languages are French, German, Italian, Japanese, and Spanish, although Dutch, Portuguese, the Scandinavian languages, and many others are also available. Accuracy with correct terminology is paramount, and the technical knowledge of the translator is key. Generally, translators have degrees in the subject field, and the Center assigns the work to the appropriate translator who has the technical knowledge to understand the particular patent and choose the correct terminology.

The Center can also support litigation requirements, which sometimes demand translation of large volumes of documentation within a short time period. Using a unique approach of combining machine translation with human translation, the Center makes it possible for the client to quickly retrieve relevant material by using his own language and get it accurately translated in the most efficient and low cost manner possible. Based on software, the system improves the gathering of useful information, yet saves time and actually costs less than traditional manual approaches for managing foreign documentation.

Journal Articles
The Center has several hundred scientist and engineer translators who have the subject expertise to produce exact translations of journal articles, whether it be for research information gathering or distribution to a foreign audience. The Center provides journal article translations camera-ready for prestigious medical publishers for pharmaceuticals, surgical procedures, and epidemiological studies.

On-site Interpreting
The Medical Translation Center provides interpreting in over 80 languages. This service is available for one-on-one sessions with a hospital patient, group meetings with foreign visitors, or an international meeting where many languages may be needed. The Center has consecutive interpreters for sessions that are less time critical, and simultaneous interpreters with wireless electronic equipment for conferences with formal proceedings that must have real time interpreting for effective presentation. Based on Linguistic System’s experience of many thousands of interpreting assignments, you can be sure that the assigned interpreter will have the medical and language expertise to facilitate accurate communication.

Select Translation Service™
For the most advanced fast turnaround service, The Medical Translation Center offers a Web-based online translation service that is accessed from an organization’s intranet and is the ultimate service for responding to an immediate need for translation of any foreign document, whether it is a report, a journal article, a memo, or an e-mail. Instantaneous machine translation is available into or from Arabic, French, German, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Japanese, and Korean. The MT user can then return for low or high level human edit of the MT, or human translation of the source material without reference to the MT. Turnaround is measured in hours, not days, and instantaneous pricing and delivery time are quoted for each translation at the outset. The service is provided at very modest fees on an annual contract basis. Contact the Center for more information about this unique service – marketing@linguist.com.

Notarized Certification
Submission to a government agency or court may require a certification of the translation. This is provided routinely by the Center upon request. Generally, the certificate is notarized and riveted to the translation and a copy of the source document.

Charges and Turnaround Time
Due to the custom nature of the work, the fees and delivery time are quoted on an individual job basis after we have received the complete material or a representative sample. The offer is always competitive, as evidenced by the more than 85,000 assignments LSI has completed since 1967. In addition, members of sponsoring organizations receive a special 10% discount. But the main advantage is performance – the expert quality and prompt delivery are the most important reasons to use the specialized services of The Medical Translation Service.

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