Darius Wey
07-18-2005, 05:00 PM
<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://www.arpadi.de/index_e.html' target='_blank'>http://www.arpadi.de/index_e.html</a><br /><br /></div><i>"When the doctor and patient don't speak the same language, the quality of medical care is jeopardized - language barriers hamper diagnosis and adversely affect the success of treatment! arpadiŽ was developed for just this reason: as a mobile interpreter for Palm OS and Pocket PC, arpadiŽ enables medically sound, instantaneous communication between doctors and patients of different language affiliations."</i><br /><br /><img src="http://www.pocketpcthoughts.com/images/web/2003/wey-20050719-arpadi.gif" /><br /><br />Cultural and linguistic diversity (CALD) is always an important topic in medicine, and 'arpadi' aims to solve some of the issues associated with it. With a database of over 400 clinical formulations and questions, 'arpadi' has the ability to read them back in 13 different languages. For those interested, a <a href="http://www.arpadi.de/dev_e.html">14-day trial version</a> is available from the site.