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Human
Factors MD Welcomes CardioNet, Artimetix, and
Trillium Health Centre
March 2006
Human Factors MD is pleased
to welcome CardioNet, Artimetix, and Trillium
Health Center as new clients.
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Recent
Sightings
March 2006
Members of the Human Factors
MD team have been busy giving invited talks,
guest lectures and university course.
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Human
Factors MD Welcomes Biosense Webster and Nellcor
June 2005
Human Factors MD is pleased
to welcome Biosense Webster and Nellcor as new
clients.
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Why
Users Are Not Good Designers
By Tim Reeves
April 2005
Some approaches to product
development advocate engaging users directly
in the design process, as co-designers. Along
this line, a new client recently suggested that
we organize several joint design sessions with
their clinical advisory panel. We (gently) moved
our client away from this approach, by convincing
them that in general, users don't make good
designers. Here are six reasons why.
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Human
Factors MD to Speak at AAMI Conference on Human
Factors & Medical Devices
February 2005
Tim Reeves, Managing Director
of Human Factors MD is among the featured speakers
at the upcoming AAMI Conference, Human Factors,
Ergonomics, and Patient Safety for Medical Devices.
This new AAMI conference will bring together
internationally recognized leaders in human
factors (HF) and patient safety, and was developed
to meet the medical device industry's need for
a better understanding of human factors principles,
standards, and regulatory expectations.
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Human
Factors MD to Support Carl Zeiss Meditec
September 15,
2004
Human Factors MD Inc. is pleased
to announce a new umbrella agreement with Carl
Zeiss Meditec Inc., one of the world's leading
suppliers of complete system solutions for ophthalmology.
Under the terms of the agreement, Human Factors
MD will provide user interface design and evaluation
services across different product development
initiatives in support of Carl Zeiss Meditec's
continued efforts to create highly usable products
for ophthalmology.
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Good
Design or Bad Design?
by Marc
Green
Septebmer, 2004
Imagine that you were designing
a new a computerized system for monitoring the
life signs of critical care patients. As a critical
system, you need to include alarms for high
risk situations. You plan on having the floor
nurse who activates the device for a new patient
set the alarms. But you also recognize the need
for the nurse to review and explicitly confirm
all settings before activation. The nurse will
setup the system, review the device settings
and confirm that the system is ready for use
before activation.
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Ease
of Use Versus Safety in Medical Device Design
by Marc
Green
July, 2004
One problem in evaluating
interface design is that safety and ease-of-use
sometimes conflict. Interface designers are
taught to make the interface "user friendly"
and intuitive. Being intuitive, however, is
a two-edged sword. The good news is that users
learn the interface quickly and make fewer errors.
In addition, an intuitive interface is more
likely to be properly operated when the user
is under stress, the time when people unconsciously
fall back their innate and highly learned behavior.
The bad news is that very notion of "intuitive"
means that the user/operator won't have to think
too much. In safety critical situations, this
is not always desirable.
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