Posts tagged with ‘patient safety’

  • Human factors in healthcare

    Humans as the source of safety Caring for people’s health is a complicated process, fraught with danger. The opportunities to…

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  • The Right Behaviour

    It may seem obvious that certain ways of behaving are better than others. It’s better to speak up about a…

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  • Prevention is better than cure

    At the end of last month, Alton Towers released a report stating that the incident on 2nd June, in which…

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  • New standard for usability in medical devices

    In February, the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) published IEC 62366-1:2015, Medical devices – Part 1: Application of usability engineering to…

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  • Healthcare Icon - Chartered Institute of Ergonomics & Human Factors

    Hunt’s plans for the NHS have a human factors flavour

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  • Better car design for drivers of all ages

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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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