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Poorly Designed Electronic Health Records Endanger Patients
New research suggests the clunky interfaces of electronic health records aren't just a pain for clinicians to work with -…
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Testing Usability of Augmented Reality Interfaces is Important
As augmented reality becomes more and more a part of healthcare, usability testing should be employed to evaluate AR medical…
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Military Studies How Surgical Teams Gain Trust In Robots
Researchers at the Air Force Research Lab, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base are working with the Institute for Defense Robotic Surgical…
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Human Factors Can Help Improve Level of Care in Hospitals.
By looking into complex human factors which can affect the medical treatment of patients, researchers hope to improve the care…
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Medical Human Factors Research Aims To Improve Patient Safety, Quality of Care
Researcher Tara Cohen spent hundreds of hours in emergency and operating rooms over the past two years, observing doctors, nurses…
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Improving Medical Device Design by Avoiding Three Common Human Factors Failures
Medical technology has made significant strides in incorporating human factors engineering into its designs but there is still room for…
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Study Aims To Improve Global Medical Device Standard on Auditory Alarms
The global medical device standard for auditory alarms in medical electrical equipment and systems used in hospitals and other health-care…
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Examining the Role of Human Factors in Medical Adherence
Daniel Simmons, principal human factors consultant, CCD, explains the role of human factors in medical adherence and how patients use…
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Study Indicates Skepticism Over Driverless Ambulances
New research from Florida Institute of Technology and Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University indicates that adults are less willing to be transported…
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Usability Challenges in Designing Drug Delivery Devices
Usability presents unique challenges in the design of drug delivery devices. Incorporating human-centric design (HCD) into drug delivery device design…
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Why Human Factors Matter
Pharmapack Europe speaker Craig Scott, director of Greensand, answers a few questions about human factors as they apply to drug-delivery…
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FDA Issues Guidelines for Interface Design, Human Factors in proposed Generic Combination Products
The FDA has issued a draft guidance to assist submitters of abbreviated new drug applications (ANDA) in minimizing differences between…
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Time in the bank: A Stanford plan to save doctors from burnout
Burnout or overall exhaustion combined with decreased interest in work, has been linked to increased errors and the soaring attrition…
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In ten years, you won’t even know you’re wearing them
Wearable health sensors may still be considered a novelty but the devices we see on the market today are the…
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Doctor Google: How age and other factors influence online health information searches
A recent study from the University of Miami found that both age and cognitive processing abilities have an effect on…
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Researchers Find Missing Link Between the Brain and Immune System
Neuroscientists at the University of Virginia School of Medicine have discovered vessels previously thought not to exist which connect the…
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How Does Human Behavior Lead to Surgical Errors? Researchers Count the Ways
Researchers at the Mayo Clinic identified factors contributing to "never events" or events that shouldn't ever happen, like wrong site…
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Government backs down on some requirements for digital medical records
EHR's have the potential to revolutionize connected healthcare, however they are slow to be accepted by healthcare professionals.