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Human Factors Engineering and Usability for Healthcare Information Technology Applications

The last decade has seen an increasing number of studies in medical informatics focusing on topics such as usability, human factors, user-centered design, users' acceptance, or ergonomics. Usability studies prove to have a great impact on user acceptance of new applications. They also prove very useful in preventing new categories of medical errors generated by inadequately designed applications. The human factors engineering principles can efficiently assist healthcare institutions and healthcare IT Industry in employing user-centered design principles when designing, developing and implementing new applications for clinical use. In the situations where a hospital wants to buy software the human factors engineering principles can also be applied in preparing the contract.

Objectives:

• To present theoretical and empirical methods used for the study of usability and acceptance of innovative information technologies: activity analysis, usability inspection and tests, user-centered design methods, simulation, medical error reporting and analysis.
• To discuss the importance and role of the above methodologies before, during and after implementation, in the healthcare field particularly.
• To welcome newcomers and support their efforts in creating a team competent in Human Factors Engineering and/or building a usability lab; to support scientific connections between the Medical Informatics and the Cognitive Ergonomics communities.

Who should attend?

Professionals from the health IT industry, health institutions, hospitals and universities occupied or interested in user driven design, work practice analysis, and implementation of heath IT systems.

"Human factors" is an umbrella term for several areas of research that include human performance, technology, design, and human-computer interaction. It is a profession that focuses on how people interact with products, tools, procedures, and any processes likely to be encountered. (Wikipedia).

Sundhedsinformatikkonference

Human Factors Engineering er en samlende betegnelse for en række forskellige forskningsområder: interface design, brugbarhedsvurdering (usability), implementering i arbejdsprocesser mm. Aktiviteterne inden for området fokuserer på analyser og vurderinger af, hvorledes mennesker interagerer med computersystemer, apparater og værktøjer i en professionel arbejdsproces.

På baggrund af de udfordringer, der overalt opleves med anvendelsen af nye it-systemer i sundhedssektoren: nye aspekter af patientsikkerhed, modstand mod systemer, implementeringsproblemer mm., er der netop startet en arbejdsgruppe om Human Factors Engineering under International Medical Informatics Association (IMIA). En af arbejdsgruppens første initiativer er afholdelsen af konferencen i Århus den 7-8 juni.

På konferencen har man mulighed for - via keynote oplæg - at få indblik i den aktuelle internationale forskning på området, og i de efterfølgende præsentationer og diskussioner den 8. juni lærer man, hvordan andre har grebet problemerne an. De to worskhops den 8. juni er tilrettelagt således, at man ikke kun passivt skal lytte på få oplægsholdere, deltagerne kommer til at spille en aktiv rolle.