The International Symposium on Human Factors and Ergonomics in Health Care provides five specialized educational tracks, each exploring different facets of healthcare systems and their integration with human factors and ergonomics (HF/E). Attendees may attend any session across the tracks based on their interests.
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Digital Health
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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Simulation and Education
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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Kimberly Williams
Monarch Innovations, LLC
Hospital Environments
The Hospital Environments track provides a venue for human factors and ergonomics professionals and affiliates to showcase applied work done in clinical settings. This track focuses on how complex systems interact and propel healthcare processes to produce both optimal and suboptimal outcomes. Presenters in this track should share practical examples from their work experiences of how to apply clinically informed HF/E principles and best practices to design interactions between processes, procedures, tools and technology, physical environment, organizations and personnel in healthcare settings in order to facilitate better outcomes for clinicians, patients and caregivers. This track welcomes proposals for expert panels, interactive design activities, individual oral presentations and poster presentations.
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Medical and Drug Delivery Devices
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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Jim Kershner
Bold Insight
Emily Alexander
Fathom Consulting
Patient Safety and Research Initiatives
The Patient Safety Research and Initiatives (PSRI) Track focuses on the multidisciplinary work aimed at improving the quality of care and 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, 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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