Simulating Healthcare Contexts of Use for Usability Testing Medical Devices

Dick HorstUserWorks, Inc.

World Usability Day 2015November 12, 2015

Overview

• Lots happening in medical device usability and electronic healthcare records

• Driven by FDA regulatory guidance • This talk focuses on contexts of use, not the medical

products themselves• These contexts of use used for:– Product development, instructions for use– User research, usability testing– Training

• Will mention some colleagues, but not the clients

Colleagues

• Porkloin – Mark Becker, Jake Bevitt, Tristan Wilson plus MedStar’s National Center for Human Factors in Healthcare

• Mannequin for drug injections – Dana Douglas, Jake Bevitt, Kristen Davis plus Mauro Usability Sciences

• Wound treatment – Mark Becker, Jake Bevitt• Diabetes – Dana Douglas, Ann Walter, Jake Bevitt,

Tristan Wilson plus Stan Caplan of Usability Associates and Bresslergroup