Overview
Handbook of Human Factors in Healthcare Design: Novel Trends and Applications takes a deep dive into critical issues in healthcare and patient safety, and examines how human factors play a role in these domains. Using the Design for X (DfX) methodology to discuss a wide range of criteria that need to be considered in the design of safe and usable healthcare ecosystems. Each chapter discusses a specific criteria (remote monitoring, eHealth, mHealth, medical devices, pediatric care, etc), reviews the literature on the concept, and presents a case or empirical study that demonstrates how human factors techniques and principles have been used to design or improve that particular concept. Handbook of Human Factors in Healthcare Design is an essential resource for those in medical device and pharmaceutical industries, consumer IT, and hospital settings; it covers novel technologies such as ingestible pills linked to smartphone applications, the world's smallest implantable pacemaker,
- | Author: Arathi Sethumadhavan|Farzan Sasangohar
- | Publisher: Academic Press
- | Publication Date: February 03, 2020
- | Number of Pages: 0 pages
- | Language: English
- | Binding: Paperback
- | ISBN-10: 0128164271
- | ISBN-13: 9780128164273
