Medical and Technical Document Translation - By Physicians, Pharmacists and Engineers, With Every Value Checked Twice

The nine document types, and which page explains each

Medical and technical files are built from documents that each need a different specialist, and each has its own page here:

• Epikrisis and discharge summaries - the document that carries a patient from one hospital to the next, translated by physicians for treatment abroad, insurers and social agencies.
• Clinical trial protocols and consent forms - for ethics committees, regulators and sponsors, with back-translation of patient-facing documents.
• Lab results, prescriptions and medical histories - values, units, reference ranges and drug names reproduced exactly.
• Operation and maintenance manuals - for the crews who run the equipment, translated by engineers and laid out in the original files.
• Patents and patent applications - descriptions, claims and abstracts in patent language for Sakpatenti, the EPO and foreign offices.
• ISO certificates and quality documentation - certificates, quality manuals, procedures and audit reports for tenders, clients and certification bodies.
• AutoCAD blueprints and engineering drawings - translated inside the DWG, DXF and PDF files with layers and dimensions intact.
• HSE safety rules and procedures - risk assessments, work permits and inductions translated once so that every crew is briefed from the same text.
• Product catalogs and datasheets - specifications, SDS and catalogs localized for importers, regulators and buyers.

Specialists, not generalists

Medical documents are translated here by practicing or former physicians and pharmacists, and technical documents by engineers in the relevant discipline - civil, mechanical, electrical, chemical, mining, hydropower, IT - each working with a second reviewer from the same field. The reason is not prestige but vocabulary and judgment: a general translator does not know that a Georgian clinician's abbreviation means a specific finding, that a German "Anamnese" section follows a fixed order, that a Norwegian hydropower manual's terms have exact Georgian equivalents used by the grid operator, or that a tolerance on a drawing is read differently in ISO and ASME conventions. Our specialists keep terminology consistent with a glossary agreed with the client's clinicians or engineers before bulk work begins, translate abbreviations correctly on first occurrence, and flag source errors - a dosage that cannot be right, a dimension that contradicts another - rather than silently correcting or faithfully reproducing them.

The numerical check

Every medical and technical translation passes a numerical check separate from the linguistic review: a second reader compares every number in the translation against the source line by line - dosages, units, laboratory values and reference ranges, ICD and ATC codes, dimensions, tolerances, pressures, temperatures, voltages, part numbers, standard designations, dates - and checks the conversion of decimal and thousands separators between languages (the comma that is a decimal point in German, Russian, Turkish and most of Europe and a thousands separator in English), the preservation of units (we do not convert units unless asked, and we state it when we do) and the consistency of codes and identifiers across the file. Drug names are rendered by their international non-proprietary names with the brand name preserved, standards are cited in their original designations with the title translated, and nothing that carries a value is paraphrased.

Certification: certified, notarized and what regulators want

Most medical and technical documents are delivered as certified translations with our stamp, a translator's statement and, for regulated purposes, a certificate of accuracy naming the specialist's qualification, which hospitals, clinics, engineering firms, contractors, certification bodies and most regulators accept. Notarized translations are required where a document enters a legal or administrative procedure - medical records for insurers, courts, the Social Service Agency and disability assessments; technical documents for tenders, customs, patent filings, licensing and litigation - and apostilles where a foreign authority requires legalized documents. Regulators have their own formats: drug registration dossiers follow the regulator's templates, patent translations follow the patent office's rules, and clinical trial documents follow the ethics committee's requirements for back-translation and version control; we deliver to the format. Every file is handled under NDA, and clinical and industrial files with restricted access on secure platforms where required.

Pricing, timing and how to order

Medical and technical documents are priced per page at the specialist tariff, which reflects physician and engineer translators and the numerical check, with fixed rates for standard short documents (a prescription, a lab report, a certificate, a datasheet page) and project rates with a team for long manuals, dossiers, curricula and drawing sets; notarization per act, apostille at the state fee plus handling, and layout work in design and CAD files at an hourly rate. A discharge summary or a lab report is translated in 1-2 hours; a consent form or a datasheet in one business day; a manual, a patent or a drawing set on an agreed schedule, typically a week to a month with a team.

To order, send the documents as PDFs, images or native files (Word, InDesign, DWG, XLIFF) on email, WhatsApp or Telegram, and tell us the reader - hospital, regulator, tender, contractor, patent office - and the country; the quote arrives within the hour with the specialist assigned, the format and the schedule. Certified translations are delivered by email in the original format; notarized ones collected at Agmashenebeli 117, near Marjanishvili Metro, or couriered anywhere. Framework agreements with a dedicated specialist team, a maintained glossary and translation memory are available for hospitals, clinics, pharmaceutical companies, manufacturers, contractors and engineering firms.

Frequently asked questions

All medical and technical documents we translate