Adventures in Medical Device Usability
HFES 2013 and What FDA Doesn't Want to See: Adventures in Medical Device Usability
Mar 13, 2013
The third day of HFES 2013 was given over to the FDA. Ron Kaye at HFES 2013 Anthony Watson, the Director of the Division of Anesthesiology, etc. in...
HFES 2013 and Regulated vs. Unregulated Components of Human Factors Work: Adventures in Medical Device Usability
Mar 12, 2013
A recurring theme on the second day of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society (HFES) Symposium on Healthcare was the tension between the regulated and...
HFES 2013 and Rewriting IEC 62366: Adventures in Medical Device Usability
Mar 11, 2013
For the next 3 days, I’ll be attending the HFES International Symposium on Human Factors and Ergonomics in Health Care being held in Baltimore. I wanted...
Conscious Awareness is Highly Overrated: Adventures in Medical Device Usability
Dec 04, 2012
Read all Adventures in Medical Device Usability by Steve Wilcox  I have an article coming out soon in the ACM journal,...
Isn’t it Time for a Better IV Pole?: Adventures in Medical-Device Usability
Jun 29, 2012
This is a story about usability that has nothing to do with regulation and nothing to do, at least initially, with human factors professionals. The story...
On User Profiles and Risk Assessments: Adventures in Medical Device Usability
May 08, 2012
Today I have a guest blogger: Dean Hooper, of Ximedica. Dean sent me some thoughts about how building profiles of the people who will use devices should be...
Usability, Gilbert Ryle, and the Wizard of Oz: Adventures in Medical Device Usability
Apr 30, 2012
To my surprise, a previous post of mine (about the importance of integrating human factors and industrial design) generated some quite spirited objections to...
Usability Also Applies to FDA Submissions: Adventures in Medical Device Usability
Apr 11, 2012
  Eventually, I’ll have something to say about device usability. This time, though, I want to talk about something else—the usability of FDA...
You Need Human Factors Folks and Designers: Adventures in Medical Device Usability
Mar 28, 2012
Usability has been forcefully thrust into the medical device world by, among other things, recent developments at FDA, which, in turn, has meant that more...
Why Old-Timey Radio Programs Could Create Better Alarms: Adventures in Medical Device Usability
Mar 21, 2012
I admit it. I used to be a philosopher.  When I left academia and got a real job more years ago than I want to think about, I didn’t expect to have...