Abstract: Remotely provided interpretation services enable a patient to communicate with one or more care providers in a health care organization. An interpreter can see and hear the communication between the patient and care provider, and interprets on behalf of the patient from a remotely located facility or decentralized location such as the interpreter's home. In an embodiment, the patient is provided with a mobile videoconferencing unit that can be transported with the patient during the duration of the patient's appointment as the patient moves from administrative to diagnostic to testing settings. In another embodiment, a system includes a database including patient language information, a scheduling system for reserving an interpreter, and a multipoint control unit (MCU) module for providing a secure connection for a teleconference between the patient and the interpreter.