China Overseas Chinese Network, November 24. According to a report compiled by Australia.com, the CALD Assist application for health professionals has recently been expanded and will now allow the use of 10 languages including Mandarin and Cantonese for COVID-19 screening. The application To help health workers communicate with participants without language barriers, it is reported that this technology will soon be promoted overseas.
SBS reported on the 22nd that the CALD Assist application was originally developed by Western Health and CSIRO in 2017. It is used in hospitals to support patients of different cultures and languages and medical staff including nurses, nutritionists and other related health workers. Inter-communication.
At the beginning of the epidemic, the Victorian government funded more than 450,000 yuan to expand the application to meet the urgent need for language dialogue at screening sites.
Currently, this application supports 10 languages-including Arabic, Chinese, Croatian, Greek, Italian, Macedonian, etc.
It is reported that Bacham, who was born in Italy, recently drove his car into a drive-through inspection site in Melbourne and tried this application designed to overcome language barriers.
It is reported that the staff handed Bacham an iPad, and the question on the screen was displayed in Italian.
A red × and a green √ will be displayed on the screen, and Bachham can select by touching the screen.
"It's easy to understand, I know everything," Bacham said.
In response to this, in Melbourne, virus detection point leader Roper recently said that in the past, employees sometimes had to rely on translation websites to try to communicate effectively.
"Before launching this app, we have been using Google Translate, which is quite difficult." (Yuan Chunling)