OUR WORK – GMDN
Improving patient safety with medical translation
Services: Translation technology management
Industries: Life sciences
The GMDN Agency was formed by medical device experts from around the world to manage and maintain the Global Medical Device Nomenclature, or GMDN.
This system of internationally agreed descriptors is used to identify medical devices with consistency in all countries and languages. Device names are standardised so that doctors and other medical professionals have the clarity they need to save lives. The GMDN Agency selected Guildhawk following their search for a supplier with stringent processes and specialist linguists.
A large and complex project
The extraordinarily large remit of the GMDN Agency means they govern thousands of highly complex medical terms and definitions. With patients’ lives at stake, the importance of accuracy couldn’t be higher. Guildhawk has carefully selected linguists with expertise in this specialist content, while our Translation Memory systems and additional checks ensure that we are able to provide complete consistency in every language.
The GMDN Agency selected Guildhawk following their search for a supplier with stringent processes and specialist linguists.
Our expertise
Guildhawk’s fully outsourced, collaborative service is delivering a continuously evolving catalogue of medical terms and definitions. While the volume of output is extremely high, our proprietary project management tools allow us to maintain the highest level of quality and consistency.
The GMDN Agency have also benefitted from the cost savings Guildhawk can achieve. We utilise an advanced collaboration platform that allows us to drive down the cost of managing complex projects, while Translation Memory management means that we can offer increasing efficiencies for larger and ongoing projects, with an extensive library of terms now held in our database for the client. The result? A workflow customised to GMDN, for outcomes that meet their exacting requirements and allow them to continue supporting the worldwide medical community.
