Professional Translation of Russian Medical Records
Discharge summaries, test results, imaging reports, and treatment histories from Russian hospitals for review by a European clinic, insurance company, or physician. We translate the medical documents, preserve every number and unit exactly as written, and handle your records with strict confidentiality.
- Quoted per file
- INN and original units kept side by side
- Confidential handling
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What We Translate
- Hospital discharge summaries and medical histories
- Laboratory and diagnostic test results
- Medical imaging reports (X-ray, ultrasound, MRI, CT)
- Medication lists and prescriptions
- Doctor's notes and clinical assessments
- Medical certificates and health records
Why Russian Medical Records Need Care
Russian medical records translation into English is not a vocabulary exercise. A discharge summary or a lab report arriving at a European clinic has to be readable by a clinician who has never seen a Russian medical document and cannot check the original. Three things in particular make that file hard to use abroad, and the whole of this service is built around handling them.
Drug Names: International and Russian Side by Side
A Russian record names medicines by the brand sold in Russia, and that brand is frequently unknown to a doctor abroad — sometimes because the same molecule is marketed under a different name, sometimes because the product is not sold outside Russia at all. We give the international nonproprietary name, what Russia calls the МНН, alongside the Russian brand exactly as printed. The receiving clinician recognises the molecule and still sees what was actually dispensed. We never substitute one for the other.
Units: SI and Conventional Together
Russian laboratories report many values in SI units (millimoles per litre, for example), while clinics in Europe and North America commonly use conventional units (milligrams per decilitre). The same lab analyte can appear in a completely different unit. Where that happens we add the converted figure alongside the original value and unit, never in place of it. The reason is verification: a converted number with the original deleted cannot be checked by anyone, and a clinician who cannot see the source figure cannot audit our arithmetic or go back to the Russian report.
Structure: Document Layout Preserved
A discharge summary, a lab report, an imaging report and a treatment history follow different conventions and are read together. We keep each one’s structure so a reviewer can take a value from the summary and find the same value on the lab form. We translate the document in place; we do not reorganise it.
What We Translate, What We Don’t
We translate the record: diagnoses as written, results as reported, medications with their doses and frequencies, imaging findings in the radiologist’s own terms. We do not interpret any of it. What a result means and what should be done about it is a clinical decision and belongs to your doctor — if you read the translation and want to know whether something changes your treatment, that conversation is with them. Our translators specialise in medical texts and work from medical reference sources; they are not clinicians and we do not present them as any. The medical translation page covers the wider direction.
Medical Records as Confidential Data
These are among the most sensitive files we handle, and they are personal data. Your records are visible only to the people working on your order. They are kept while the order is active plus a support window afterwards, in case a re-issued copy or a correction is needed, and then deleted — the one narrow exception being accounting records we are required to retain. You can ask for deletion at any time, and our document security policy sets out the whole chain.
Medical Records and Professional Translation
This is a professional translation for use by a medical professional, insurer, or clinic. It is not certified and not notarized — it carries no official legal status. If the receiving institution requires a certified or notarised translation, that is a different service — tell us before you order and we will confirm which format your case needs. Whether it does is that institution’s call, so it is worth one question to them before you pay for anything.
Where the file travels with a treatment agreement, an insurance policy or clinical-trial paperwork, those are handled by our contracts and agreements service, to the same terminology.
Pricing and Turnaround
A medical file is quoted after we see the page count, because the work depends on the length and complexity of the documents. Terminology consistency across the full file — making sure the same medication name and unit conversion appear the same way everywhere — is included in our quote, not billed separately. The price list gives the general band for this direction; send the scans through the order form and you will have a fixed price and a delivery date within 2 hours during working hours.
Medical Translation Regularly?
Clinics, insurers, and medical professionals who need Russian medical records translated on an ongoing basis can set up a standing arrangement with agreed terminology and priority turnaround.
Frequently Asked Questions
Will a European clinic accept a professional translation?
That is the clinic's decision, not something we can promise on its behalf. Where the record is being read for clinical review a professional translation is usually what is wanted; where it is going into a formal submission, certification may be required instead. Ask them which, and tell us before you order.
What if the lab units in the Russian report are different from what my clinic expects?
That is exactly why we include both the original SI or Russian unit and the converted figure alongside it. Your clinic can see what was actually reported in Russia, and we show them the conventional unit equivalent. The original number stays on the document so no information is lost.
Can a discharge summary and its lab reports be translated as one set?
Yes, and it is worth sending them together: the same medication and the same analyte then read identically across every document in the episode, which is what lets a reviewer cross-check one against another.
Do you translate the doctor's handwriting?
We translate what can be read with confidence. Handwritten notes are common in Russian records and are often partly illegible; where a passage cannot be read reliably we mark it as illegible and ask you for a better scan rather than guessing. Guessing at a dose is exactly the kind of help nobody wants.
How do you handle privacy for medical records?
Only the people working on your order can open the files. We do not share them and do not use them for anything but your translation, and you can ask for deletion at any time. The document security page sets out the whole handling chain.
Can you translate a prescription so I can buy the medication abroad?
We translate the prescription as written, with the INN alongside the Russian brand. What you can actually be dispensed abroad is for a doctor or pharmacist there to decide — a Russian prescription is not a foreign one, and we do not advise on equivalents.
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We translate medical documents; we do not provide medical advice, clinical interpretation, or treatment recommendations. What a medical record means and what a clinician should do about it is a conversation between you and your doctor. This translation is not certified or notarized and carries no official legal status. For a formally certified translation, contact us before ordering.
