What this card shows
The Preferred language % populated card shows the percentage of your patient list that has a preferred language recorded, as a single number.
Preferred language is what tells your team whether a patient needs an interpreter or translated paperwork, so this card is a practical check on how ready you are for that conversation before it comes up.
Reading the card
The number is a percentage of your whole patient list, not a count of patients.
A patient counts as populated only if a real value is recorded. Blanks and not specified are both treated as not recorded.
Preferred language is not a required field when a patient is created, so this figure is usually below 100%.
There is no date filter. This is a snapshot of your whole patient list as it stands today.
The companion Language distribution card on the same dashboard shows which languages are recorded, covering only the share of patients counted here.
Where this data comes from
This comes from the Preferred language field on each patient's record. Open a patient, go to Patient information, and Preferred language sits in the Identity section, below the birth date field.
Preferred language can also be set when the patient is first created. Recording it on an existing patient raises this percentage the next time the card is loaded.
Opening this card
In wawa, open Insights from the sidebar, then go to Standard Reports and select Patients, then Patient core demographics. The Preferred language card is near the top of the dashboard.