The Digital Health track focuses on a range of software and digital technology used by patients, caregivers, and clinicians to manage health and wellness in the home and clinical settings. Areas include AI/ML applications, clinical decision support and large language models (LLMs), consumer (OTC) mobile and wearable health apps, software as a medical device (SaMD), telehealth platforms, electronic and personal health records and management portals, home health technologies, and other digital health software applications and interfaces.

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The Simulation and Education track focuses on the integration of HF/E with innovative simulation technologies designed to address global healthcare challenges, mitigate educational disparities, and improve patient outcomes. It highlights new opportunities and achievements in leveraging low-cost, high-impact simulation methods to enhance healthcare processes and systems. It promotes new evidence and best practices for leveraging sustainable, quality simulation systems to revolutionize learning opportunities, train/evaluate technical and non-technical clinical skills, and validate emerging technologies designed for an array of diverse groups and care environments. Additionally, this track surveys the pervasive role of AR/VR technologies in supporting patient, provider, and organizational outcomes.

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The Hospital Environments Track focuses on the social-technical challenges, the human machine partnerships, and the unique complexity that is healthcare delivery today. This track's content strives to present practical examples of how to apply clinically informed HF/E principles and best practices to design processes, procedures, tools and technology in the healthcare setting in order to facilitate better clinical outcomes. We aim for a mix of traditional projects and cases studies, as well as wider experiences and perspectives from both HF/E practitioners and clinicians in implementing human factors and ergonomics principles at the clinical front line. Research and QI projects reporting implementation efforts and outlining feasible solutions to HF/E issues in healthcare environments are especially welcomed/encouraged. Topics include, but are not limited to: (1) Physical considerations, such as environmental design and layout, postural ergonomics, equipment design, information displays, alarms and safe patient handling equipment. (2) Cognitive considerations, including learning, memory, judgment, decision making, and cognitive workload. (3) Emotional/motivational factors, such as burnout and stress. (4) Sociocultural factors such as teamwork, communication, production pressures, and the interaction between health care providers and their environment.

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The Medical and Drug-Delivery Device Track focuses on the application of HF and UX principles and methods to design, evaluate, and validate the user interfaces (hardware, software, instructions, packaging) of medical devices and combination products. Devices covered include those intended for use in highly specialized clinical environments, as well as home use and over-the-counter (OTC) devices. This year's track will strive to include content geared towards advanced practitioners that pushes the boundaries of current practice and conventional thinking, as well as best practices, regulatory trends, and case studies. This track will benefit developing and advanced practitioners and companies new to the discipline.

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The Patient Safety Research and Initiatives (PSRI) Track focuses on the multidisciplinary work aimed at improving the quality of care as well as the safety of patients and staff in different healthcare settings. Relevant topics include patient and staff ergonomics both at micro and macro levels, healthcare resilience, health equity and healthcare disparities, teamwork and team performance, healthcare-associated infections (HAIs), interesting patient safety incident cases, novel patient safety analysis and investigation methods, innovative and sustainable solutions for improving workflows, processes, and environments.

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