MEDICAL
With a background in the biological sciences and having worked in multiple medical settings, I observed first hand some of the difficulties that patients and healthcare workers experienced. After studying human factors, I even experienced some of these poor human factor deisgns personally. The topic of human factors has been great interest to me.
a discussion
Macroergonomics in the operating room (OR)
Macro-ergonomics has been applied to improving the healthcare system, one being the surgical team. Using a socio-technical approach to improve the surgery team and overall safety is no surprise as 40% to 50% of the hospital errors…
a fault tree analysis
Analysis of Medication Administration Error in the ED using FTA
Many medical errors exist in the current healthcare system involving the emergency department (ED). Often the situations in the ED are unique to the ED because of its fast-paced and high-stress nature. Of the medical errors, medication error presents…
a brief
Benefits of Implementing HF Considerations Early in Laparoscopic Technology System Design
When a system engineer designs, there are many things to consider: budget, organization goal, and end-user goal. As Locatelli et al. (2014) name, the iron triangle of system design includes time, budget, and customer specifications. What is…
a brief
Human and Automatic Machine Interaction in the ED in SA Maintenance
Ideally, automation alleviates some burden on the human operator's cognitive load by making decisions based on what was programmed. At the same time, situation awareness is crucial in any decision-making scenario involving human…
a discussion
Speech Recognition in the Healthcare Setting
Speech recognition will be a long duration industry trend for two reasons. One, speech is the most natural way of communication for humans. Second, voice recognition devices free up hands, time, and working memory. Therefore, it will…