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Video Remote Interpreting: Containing Costs While Ensuring Compliance
By Evan David
Video Remote Interpreting offers a sound cost-effective, efficient solution to the problem of communicating with an often litigious deaf patient while satisfying the requirements of Title III of the Americans for Disabilities Act. It is an easy solution to deploy, and offers the greatest amount of flexibility, thereby saving you time, money and legal exposure.
Several companies offer VRI. The prices for services vary widely. Some require prepayments, other require minimum connection charges. Contracts are required with most companies, and some entail the purchase or lease of specialized equipment. Some companies offer services over your existing computer with easily added web cameras. In all cases internet access is essential. Bandwidth requirements to use VRI are modest. A Google search for Video Remote Interpreting produced a list of companies. The first listed was a company from New York, LifeLinks Video Interpreting services, which promises to provide a regional, certified American Sign Language interpreter in 60-seconds or less over a 3G connection on a laptop, or any existing computer with an external or internal webcam.
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