Language and records
Keep the words. Keep the context.
A translation or summary can help a receiving team understand. The interpreter and handover are designed to preserve the original record alongside it.
These articles explain a proposal and a system in development. They do not describe an operating emergency service.
Designed, not built
Words kept as they were said
With the interpreter the crew and the patient each speak in their own language. What is said is written down in the language it was spoken in and rendered for the other side. The original is always kept; a rendering never replaces it. A person can correct a line, and the earlier version survives.
Source:the design rules for responders' screens
Designed, not built
The record travels with the patient
What was reported, what was found and what was done is written once and carried forward. The receiving team reads the same record the crew wrote, and the words of the person who reported are still in it. A summary never replaces the literal record.
Source:the design rules for responders' screens
Designed, not built
Consent, and the language rule with teeth
If nobody has written and reviewed the consent wording in a language, the recording does not start in that language.
Recording is consented for each encounter, a person can withdraw it, and what is deleted is recorded as deleted. Recordings of a patient go only to suppliers under a signed data-protection agreement, and the system will not send them anywhere else.
Source:the plan for the response platform