It’s like having 10 different remote controls for 10 different TVs
This NPR interview with Danielle Ofri, author of a new book on medical errors (and their prevention), had some interesting insight into how human factors play out during a pandemic. Her new book is...
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Wearable Fitness Trackers: A Comparative Usability Evaluation
This guest post is from graduate students Haley Vaigneur and Bliss Altenhoff. Haley and Bliss compared the usability of two fitness trackers as part of a graduate course in health informatics taught by...
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Tylenol: A narrow margin of safety
I’m always surprised at how many people don’t know how dangerous Tylenol (or anything with acetaminophen/paracetamol) is. I can’t remember where I initally learned that just a few pills could cause...
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Usability process not used for ACA website
A recently released report, done in March 2013, reveals the process of creating Healthcare.gov. Hindsight is always 20/20, but we’ve also worked hard to establish best practices for considering both...
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Human-Technology Interactions in Health
Coincidentally, the topic of social/human-technology interaction is in the news quite a bit today. I’m pleased that the topic of the human factors implications of the social interaction with...
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Prescription Smartphone Apps
I recently published a study (conducted last year) on automation trust and dependence. In that study, we pseudo-wizard-of-oz’ed a smartphone app that would help diabetics manage their condition. We...
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Recent Research Potpourri
Just a small plug for some recent research from Anne and me. The topics are ones that we’ve discussed on the blog: games and cognitive training and e-health tools. First, Anne and colleagues...
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Bad Usability Causes Cranky Babies
I peripherally heard about another Tylenol recall and assumed the recall was prompted by tainted medicine or something. Anne just sent me a link to the story and it is apparently usability related....
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Fun with confusing medication names!
Check out this post from The Consumerist about how unhappy the FDA is with Durezol and Durasal. A hint: It’s ok if you accidentally use Durezol when you wanted Durasal, but the penalty is high for...
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Coming to APA 2011: A Conversation Hour on Use of Electronic Health Records...
Drs. Kelly Caine (of guest post fame) and Dennis Morrison will be presenting on human factors considerations for the design and use of electronic health records. Audience participation is welcome as...
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Treemapping Your Way to Healthier Food Choices
Renee Walker, MFA in Design, came up with an innovative use of treemaps to provide nutrition information – winning the Rethink the Food Label contest. Can you imagine the horror of food companies once...
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Resources: Human Factors Design Considerations in Home Health Technology
The National Academies of Science and Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality have just released two publications. The first, Health Care Comes Home, is a 200 page report: Health Care Comes Home...
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Radiation: The Difficulty of Monitoring the Invisible – Post 2 of 2
This post continues the list of articles on HF-related errors in radiation delivering healthcare devices. As Technology Surges, Radiation Safeguards Lag But the technology introduces its own risks: it...
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Radiation: The Difficulty of Monitoring the Invisible – Post 1 of 2
Lately, I have noticed a plethora of stories on human factors mistakes with medical equipment that delivers radiation. I have collected them here for those who are interested in this problem. At times...
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The Human Factors Prize
The Human Factors and Ergonomics Society is announcing the Human Factors Prize, a $10,000 prize recognizing excellent human factors research. The winner will be presented at the annual meeting in Las...
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False Alarms in the Hospital
NPR pointed me to a two-series in the Boston Globe examining the incessant din of patient alarms. The monitor repeatedly sounded an alarm — a low-pitched beep. But on that January night two years ago,...
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Profiles in Human Factors: Dr. Julian Sanchez, Medtronic
This post is the first in our new series of human factors career profiles. Dr. Julian Sanchez was kind enough to answer my questions about his job and the journey he took to get there. Dr. Sanchez...
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Children and Medication Errors –“Thanks, Mom and Dad!”
NPR had a story this morning about the high number of medication errors children experience and some ideas as to why. In short summary: Kitchen spoons are inaccurate for giving “teaspoons” of...
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“Clomiphene” vs. “Clomipramine”
Found at the Consumerist blog: The words “Clomiphene” and “Clomipramine” might look similar, but if you work in a pharmacy, you should know that they stand for very different things. Clomiphene is the...
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Too standardized? – The problem of tube identification in hospitals
When it comes to efficiency, creating standard sizes and connections saves money, production efforts, and makes for easy substitution when one runs out of an object. For example, I was delighted that...
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