Designing Health
Since 2004, we’ve been working to transform healthcare products, services, and systems by combining design and engineering with an in-depth understanding of humans and healthcare.
Our look has changed as our team has evolved, but our focus is the same: to make healthcare more human through design and evaluation. Visit the new humanfactors.ca to learn more about us and the work we’ve been doing. Together, let's reimagine the future of healthcare.
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Healthcare Human Factors is recruiting CAA (Certified Anesthesiologist Assistant) and CRNA (nurse anesthetist) participants for a study in Washington, DC for a usability evaluation of an anesthesia device. The study will take place at George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences between Dec 2nd to Dec 8th, 2019.
Your feedback will directly influence decisions on how to best refine and optimize the device for ease of use, efficiency, and safety.
If you or your colleagues are interested in participating in this evaluation, please fill out the survey at: http://machform.ehealthinnovation.org/view.php?id=43800. We will contact you to schedule and confirm the sessions, if you are eligible for the usability evaluation.
It would be appreciated if you could forward this questionnaire to anyone you know who may be interested in participating.
Healthcare Human Factors is recruiting anesthesia providers to participate in an anesthesia device evaluation. This is to ensure the product design satisfies users’ clinical and workflow requirements. The evaluation will be held at the CLASS Center at GWU between December 2nd - December 6th. The e...
LIVE NOW : DesignTalks with Don Norman has just kicked off - you can join the live stream now via www.humanfactors.ca/designtalks
is THIS FRIDAY, June 28 @ 12pm EST. Hosted by Joseph Cafazzo, we will be joined by Don Norman for a special edition of our regular series. Not to be missed - you can join the on the day via https://humanfactors.ca/designtalks (link will be live just before 12pm)
Our partner, eHealth Innovation @ UHN, is looking for eligible participants who can spare just a small amount of time for their ! Interested? Please fill out this quick form >>> https://bit.ly/2UgPEAZ
Our & Night is back for 2019 - Join Joseph Cafazzo, Mike Lovas and our design team as they chat about our work & how you can join us this summer! Spots are limited - For more info and to RSVP >>> https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/hhf-design-fellowship-internship-info-night-2019-tickets-54942827476
What if healthcare could be a safer, simpler, or even an enjoyable experience? These are the kinds of questions that drive our work here at Healthcare Human Factors, and we’re looking for two outstanding designers to join our team. Join us for the evening to learn more about our summer fellowship ...
Healthcare Human Factors is recruiting physicians in the GTA area to participate in a usability evaluation of a novel imaging tool that surgeons can use to make clinical decisions based on excised tissue samples, in addition to using current methods (e.g. visual inspection, palpations, frozen section analysis). The study will take place in our labs at Toronto General Hospital between Aug 7th and Aug 17th.
Your feedback will directly influence decisions on how to best refine and optimize the device for ease of use, efficiency, and safety.
If you or your colleagues are interested in participating in this evaluation, please fill out the survey at: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/S3FLV88. We will contact you to schedule and confirm the sessions, if you are eligible for the usability evaluation.
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We are currently working alongside our partner team, eHealth Innovation, in the design of their latest Asthma platform, breathe for Asthma. If you or anyone you know lives with , completing this anonymous survey will provide valuable insights that directly help us in the apps development stages. It only takes 3 mins, and all responses are anonymous! Link:
https://hhf.typeform.com/to/oCE1CD
Healthcare Human Factors is conducting a usability evaluation and is in need of patients and caregivers who have experience with enteral feeding pumps, as well as laypeople.
The study will be held in May. There is a 2-hour training session, followed by a 2-hour usability testing session on a separate day. Participants will receive compensation for attending both sessions.
If you are interested in participating in the study, please complete the following questionnaire (https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/EntPump2). If you are eligible for the usability evaluation, we will contact you to schedule and confirm a session.
It would be appreciated if you could forward this questionnaire to anyone you know who may be interested in participating.
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Are you in the Washington DC area? We're looking for non-clinical people (laypeople) to participate in the usability evaluation of a homecare pump this week (March 5 - 7).
If you're interested, please email us at [email protected]
Healthcare Human Factors is recruiting anesthesiologists, registered nurses and homecare nurses (RN and LPNs) in the Washington DC area to participate in a usability evaluation of two types of infusion pump: a volumetric and syringe. The study is being run between Feb 5th – March 2nd.
Interested individuals in the DC area can fill out the following surveys:
Anesthesiologists: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/pump-ana
Registered Nurse: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/pump-rn
Home care (RN/LPN): https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/homecare_pump
The purpose of the evaluation is to improve the use-safety and usability of the pumps to ensure they are intuitive and easy to use for medical professionals.
Help us design the future of healthcare! We will be hosting a design internship info night where you can learn about our summer internship program, the work we do at Healthcare Human Factors and how you’ll fit in as an intern. For more information & to RSVP, visit the Eventbrite link below!
What if healthcare could be a safer, simpler, or even an enjoyable experience? These are the kinds of questions that drive our work here at Healthcare Human Factors. To say that we know healthcare is an understatement, and we’re looking for two outstanding design students (or new grads) to join ou...
We are hiring! For more info, check out the link below
At Healthcare Human Factors we are driven by the belief that experiences in healthcare should be safe, effective, and also amazing. Located in the Toronto General Hospital, we approach our design and evaluation process leveraging a strong foundation in human factors, rigorous research, and deep clin...
Get tickets/info below for the Design Strategists: The Exchange Healthcare Edition. Our Design Director, Mike Lovas, will be speaking.
Design Strategists: The Exchange Healthcare Edition is an opportunity for you to learn how healthcare design leaders are transforming their organizations through design led strategies. Learn about the interplay between design and business strategy and how to increase your organizations innovative an...
Healthcare Human Factors open house is off to a great start today - The team is excited to showcase and explain the ins and outs of our work!
We are conducting usability evaluations on a LC-MS/MS system, and are seeking mass spectrometry users and method developers to participate in the study. Specifically, we are looking for users with current or past experience handling human samples for in-vitro diagnostic evaluation purposes. The sessions will take place in Framingham, MA between April and May 2017. Participants are provided an honorarium for their time and travel. If you are interested, check out the link below!
We are looking for routine mass-spectrometry users and method developers to participate in a usability study of a Liquid Chromatography-mass spectrometry system.
Happy Holidays from Healthcare Human Factors @ UHN! http://humanfactors.ca/holiday-usability-errors/
This year we’ve had many opportunities to make the healthcare world a safer and better place and we have our incredible partners and clients to thank for allowing us to do the work we do. We hope 2017 will be filled with the same good fortune all around.
Less than 3 weeks until HF101: Human Factors for Safer Healthcare Workshop. For more information take a look at our Eventbrite page below or the online brochure here:http://humanfactors.ca/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/HF101_Info_Booklet.pdf
Group rates available for a limited time.
In celebration of Canadian Patient Safety Week, join us for a full-day interactive workshop to learn how Human Factors can make our healthcare system safer. This course is perfect for front line clinicians, clinical managers, healthcare administrators, patient safety and risk management professional...
Our paper comparing the use-safety and user experience of ventilators is out! We used novel, rigorous, quantitative methods. http://ccforum.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13054-016-1431-1
The online intensive care journal.Critical Care is a high quality, peer-reviewed, international clinical medical journal that aims to improve the care of critically ill patients by acquiring, discussing, distributing, and promoting evidence-based information relevant to intensivists. The j...
We're excited to offer our new full day workshop on Human Factors for Safer Healthcare! Find out more and register here: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/hf101-human-factors-for-safer-healthcare-tickets-26422776235
In celebration of Canadian Patient Safety Week, join us for a full-day interactive workshop to learn how Human Factors can make our healthcare system safer. This course is perfect for front line clinicians, clinical managers, healthcare administrators, patient safety and risk management professional...
Radiologists and urologists needed for usability testing of ultrasound system to guide prostate biopsy - $400 - http://svy.mk/1RobTYe
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Join us tomorrow at the Centre for eHealth Innovation Teleconference Room for the first of many lunch hour Design Talks. During each talk we'll bring in someone to present on some aspect of design (broadly speaking). This event is open to the public. Bring your lunch!
Congratulations to our partners at Sick Kids and Mount Sinai on becoming finalists in a CIHR video competition showcasing the Loop project! Like the video and help us win!
My Team of Care-Adolescents and Young Adults with Cancer (myTOC-AYAC) Jennifer Stinson, Hospital for Sick Children (Toronto)
"More and more, we are seeing how wearable technology can be strongly aligned to enable more advanced healthcare applications..."
As much as 15% of you use some sort of wearable technology and that half North Americans would consider it. That’s impressive, considering that it seems only recent that wearable tech has been around. What’s more, smartphones have become ubiquitous, equipped with an incredible array of sensors that…
Executive Director Dr. Joe Cafazzo speaks to Chatelaine about health trackers: “The trouble is that there are far too many apps, and too many claims of therapeutic value, for regulators to police.”
From smart forks to flu apps, there’s a device to measure every aspect of your health. But could we be tracking too much?
Dentists and dental surgeons needed to evaluate a dental navigation system for guiding implant surgery. Receive $900 for your time.
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Healthcare Human Factors at UHN is conducting a usability evaluation of a dental navigation system for guiding implant surgery. We are currently recruiting dentists and dental surgeons to participate in the evaluation. The purpose of the evaluation is to assess the usability and safety of the system…
"More and more, we’re realizing the impact of interruptions on patient safety in all kinds of healthcare environments...."
We recently got a chance to sit down with former HHF teammate, Varuna Prakash, to talk about her article, Mitigating errors caused by interruptions during medication verification and administration: interventions in a simulated ambulatory chemotherapy setting, selected among BMJ Quality Safety’s to…
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