Good interface design contributes to safer medical equipment and improved provider and
patient safety. In addition, good interfaces have an impact on a number of additional …

Current statistics suggest that preventable medical error is a common cause of patient
morbidity and mortality, being responsible for between 44,000 and 98,000 deaths annually …

Applications in the fields of user-interface design, medical device design and accidents and
injuries in the hospital setting are described to illustrate the ergonomic approach. Data on …

Human–technology interfaces are going through an evolutionary transformation, one that is
likely to impact on future medical device interfaces. This chapter reviews technical trends in …

Interactive healthcare technologies are proliferating in terms of the health conditions they
address and the technological innovations embedded in them. Some are transforming …

Trying to identify what digital medical technologies are today is a practically unresolvable
task. Over the last few years, we have seen a radical change in these technologies; they …

Objectives to select and summarize excellent research published during 2011 in the study of
human factors in bio-medical informatics. Methods we attempt to derive a synthetic overview …

This article reviews three industry demands that will impact the future of Human Factors and
Ergonomics in Healthcare settings. These demands include the growing population of older …

This book is concerned with human factors and ergonomics in healthcare. The utility of this
area of research is to aid the design of systems and devices for effective and safe healthcare …

Given the rising costs of health care, the current focus on improving patient safety, and the
goals of reducing barriers to efficient healthcare access, there is a strong and rapid push …