Archive for May, 2015

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    Lively discussion at the South West Regional Group

    This month’s programme looked at modeling processes based on ‘mock-ups’ that prevent ‘cock-ups’, ensuring positive and beneficial links between theoretical concepts in their journey towards practical application. Good ideas on paper often…

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  • Designing out medical error - Chartered Institute of Ergonomics & Human Factors

    Designing out medical error

    Designing Out Medical Error, DOME, was a three year, EPSRC-funded, multidisciplinary project aimed at designing safer healthcare equipment, processes and…

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  • Healthcare Icon - Chartered Institute of Ergonomics & Human Factors

    Healthcare apps: uses and limitations

    Michael Craven and colleagues discuss the potential and the problems associated with using apps to support patients and carry out…

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  • Inhaler - Chartered Institute of Ergonomics & Human Factors

    Actual v simulated use in human factors testing of medical devices

    Before medical devices can be used by the public they need to be tested, either with actual patients or through…

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  • Clinical guidelines app - Chartered Institute of Ergonomics & Human Factors

    User-centred design of a clinical guidelines app

      Adrian Kwa describes the process of designing an app that allows doctors to access clinical guidelines quickly Clinical guidelines…

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  • Hospital Sign - Chartered Institute of Ergonomics & Human Factors

    A user-centred approach to patient information

    The patient journey is defined by information and usually follows sequential stages, often referred to as ‘clinical pathways’, which seek…

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  • Healthcare - Heartlight - Chartered Institute of Ergonomics & Human Factors

    Healthcare technology challenges for tiny users

    John Crowe and colleagues describe the process of developing a pulse monitor for newborn babies. Instruments for monitoring physiological functions…

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