Just in case you wanted to read hospital impact in Chinese, click here

You can translate any website to a few different languages using google's language tools - the simplified Chinese translation has just been added as a beta). I'm still waiting on the Dutch to English translation so I can read the blog of Martijn Hulst, who works on internet/intranet strategy for a large hospital in the Netherlands.

I went on a search for other healthcare bloggers who happen to blog in other languages. After looking everywhere, not surprisingly I found that non-English medical / healthcare-specific blogs are few and far between. Some had potential but have sinced been abandoned. A few interesting blogs I did find:
- This one looks like a Danish blog about living with diabetes. Unfortunately, Google doesn't have Danish-to-English translation yet.
- Dr. Chong's blog (in Chinese) discusses some health-related news items. Unfortunately, with sentences like, "the menopause woman keeping in good health four wants," we start to see pretty quickly that Google's translation tools still needs some work. Makes me wonder what exactly even the words "hospital impact" becomes in other languages.

After all, the blogosphere is still nascent - even more so for the healthcare blogosphere. But with the # of blogs doubling every 5 months, I'll have to check again soon - never know when someone in China or Iran or Germany will start blogging and become the next KevinMD or Matthew Holt.