Now is the Time to Make Progress on Your Device Labeling
This is the fourth post in a multipart series on how medical device and pharmaceutical companies can continue to make progress on Human Factors-related activities during the COVID-19 crisis. Device...
View ArticleHow Risky is Your Use-Related Risk Analysis?
by Liz Mauer, MHCI This is the first in a multipart series about how to effectively identify, understand, and communicate a product’s use-related risks. It would be hard to understate the importance...
View ArticlePitfall #1: Using Only One Methodology to Develop a URRA
by Liz Mauer, MHCI This is the second in a multipart series about how to effectively identify, understand, and communicate a product’s use-related risks. While it is considered best practice to...
View ArticlePitfall #2: Not Considering Frequency in Your URRA
by Liz Mauer, MHCI This is the third in a multipart series about how to effectively identify, understand, and communicate a product’s use-related risks. It can be hard to know how to make use of...
View ArticlePitfall #3: Developing Your URRA Based On Your User Interface Design
by Liz Mauer, MHCI This is the fourth in a multipart series about how to effectively identify, understand, and communicate a product’s use-related risks. It can be tempting to create your URRA by...
View ArticlePitfall #4: Focusing on Harm in Your URRA
by Liz Mauer, MHCI This is the fifth in a multipart series about how to effectively identify, understand, and communicate a product’s use-related risks. URRAs can be useful tools to help proactively...
View ArticleChristina Mendat, PhD Speaks at DIA Conference
Last month, Christina Mendat, PhD, Managing Director for Human Factors MD, was an invited speaker at the annual DIA Combination Products Conference. This virtual event took place on October 15th and...
View ArticleFrontline Workers Are the Real Heroes
Human Factors MD would like to give a big shout out and thanks to all of the frontline workers that are facing this global pandemic. They are selflessly placing themselves in the path of this rapidly...
View ArticleReflections on Human Factors Programs During COVID-19
2020 was a challenging year for so many around the world, and medical device and pharmaceutical companies were no exception. The needs these companies fill aren’t going away just because COVID-19...
View ArticleReflecting on the 2021 HFES Health Care Symposium
Earlier this month our team had the opportunity to attend the 10th Annual International Symposium on Human Factors and Ergonomics in Health Care and our company was pleased to be the Silver Sponsor of...
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