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Toward a patient-centered approach to diagnosing heart attacks at the point of care
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Blood Glucose Monitoring System Expert Review
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Applying Hierarchical Task Analysis to Medication Administration Errors
11/12/2021
The systematic human error reduction and prediction approach, or SHERPA, can be applied to the task of administering drugs to hospital patients. Human error
identification techniques have been used in high-risk environments for some time.
Drugs administration is a complex and risky process with many opportunities for error.
The purpose of using SHERPA is to identify where in the process errors occur and to
suggest the most suitable design solutions to mitigate these errors. Read more...
Signal Detection Theory in Healthcare
10/17/2021
One of the most obvious applications of signal detection theory in healthcare is when it is applied to diagnosing disease. In a talk given by Dr. Cosmic during my ENP-109, Medical Technology Development with Michael Wiklund, Cosmic described a PET scan procedure that was used to find cancer in patients. Read more...
Welcome!
9/26/2021
Welcome! I'm glad you're here. I created this blog for two reasons: to keep a record of some of the thoughts and inspirations that pass through my head an occupy my days, and to share these with folks that might be interested, like yourself. Read more...