05/09/2026
As founders of Worldish, we always think about what patients need when they are in a country where they do not speak the local language.
You need your privacy to be respected and a tool that empowers you in your communication with your doctor or nurse. You want to feel respected and equal. And above all, you want to understand, without any doubt, what treatment plan has been discussed with you.
You want to make sure that you have understood all the information the doctor or nurse has shared with you, so that you are able to follow the treatment plan correctly. Any dilution in these key aspects can significantly affect the quality of care and, ultimately, patient safety.
At Worldish, we have interviewed several hundred people, especially people living in Sweden who do not speak Swedish, about how they approach healthcare. We have also heard from patients in France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Finland, and now even the U.S. about their concerns when meeting healthcare professionals.
In Helen Assistant, we have taken all this feedback and these concerns into account.
Even when you have an interpreter in the consultation room, you may still wonder whether everything was communicated correctly. What if something the doctor said was summarized? What if you lack confidence in the way something has been interpreted? Interpretation can involve subjective errors, and not every interpretation is necessarily 100% accurate.
So, how about having an additional layer of support?
A medically trained, cutting-edge technology like Helen Assistant can be used together with an interpreter, allowing the patient and doctor to have an additional way to make sure that everything has been communicated correctly.
It is important to be clear: Helen Assistant is not here to replace interpreters.
It is here to empower interpreters and support them in doing their jobs even better.
A general AI tool may be able to help when you are ordering a taxi or making a restaurant reservation. But healthcare is different. In healthcare, you need the most accurate, data-secure, certified, medical-grade translation.
That is what Helen Assistant is built for.
If you are a healthcare institution looking to deploy an AI solution that is top-notch in medical accuracy, data security and compliance, while meeting the needs of doctors, nurses and, above all, patients, please reach out to us.
We hope you can help us spread the word and raise awareness about language barriers in healthcare and how unequal it can feel to be a patient who cannot speak the local language.
We, as founders, have experienced this journey ourselves, and it is not a good place to be.
Let’s change healthcare for the better — where care is equal for everyone, irrespective of which language they speak.
Helen Assistant, together with medically certified interpreters.
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