Healthcare Human Factors

We’re thrilled to be recognized as a case study at the top of Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society’s (HIMSS) Usability Maturity Model. Specifically HIMSS places us at the point of being well-integrated with a dedicated team and moving into the fifth, strategic and top-level phase of their model. At the fifth stage, “usability is [...]

The National Post wrote about how iPhone apps are changing the way we provide and receive healthcare and used one of our projects as an example of how it’s done correctly. Here’s an excerpt: “Created by the Centre for Global eHealth Innovation at Toronto’s University Health Network, [bant] is intended to be used by Type-1 [...]

Dr. Brian Goldman of the CBC’s White Coat, Black Art interviews Anjum Chagpar of Healthcare Human Factors on “Health Design”. “Modern medical gizmos save lives.  But sometimes, they kill.  On this week’s episode of  White Coat Black Art, life and death… by design. Healthy design is not just about designing hospitals. It’s also designing the medical [...]

Healthcare Human Factors and Centre for Global eHealth Innovation were recently featured in an article on the Canada Foundation for Innovation website: http://www.innovationcanada.ca/en/articles/testing-ground.

In a story highlighting incidents of medical error in Manitoba, Rachel White of Healthcare Human Factors speaks with CTV’s Maralee Caruso about how important it is to make front line staff more error wise and risk aware.  The presentation of the Human Factors 101 course to staff at CancerCare Manitoba has prompted a number of [...]

Canada’s largest national newspaper, The Globe and Mail, featured an article highlighting the work of UHN’s Healthcare Human Factors, specifically their two-year collaboration with Smiths Medical to develop a user-friendly “smart” pump-infusion system. “Demand for the group’s evaluation work is exploding.  We are fielding requisitions from ministries of health, cancer agencies, and we are working [...]