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Making the Most of Your Investment in Human Factors

Gain a deeper understanding of how investment can yield dividends in enhancing a product’s interactive qualities.

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Designing Effective Quick Reference Guides

Watch our webinar to learn how to design safer, more usable and appealing quick reference guides for medical devices and systems.

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Usability Testing of Medical Technology

Usability testing gives the gift of user feedback, which subsequently can help you design a better product. Learn how to uncover flaws across different portions of the user interface, make changes to correct the flaws and mitigate risk.

Residual Risk Analysis of User Interaction Problems

Residual risk analysis generates the insights and supporting data necessary to decide if a product is a “go” for launch.

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Threshold Analyses

In this white paper, we discuss assessing user interface design differences between approved and proposed combination products and medical devices.

Conceptual Design of a Product’s User Interface

A comprehensive conceptual design effort is likely to place your user interface design process on the right path, avoid ill-advised shortcuts and help ensure that the final product is safe, effective, and satisfying to use.

Applying Human Factors to Wearable Medical Devices

Wearable medical devices form a close, sometimes intimate relationship with the wearer. This makes wearable medical devices a prime target for human factors specialists’ research, design, and evaluation efforts.

Combination Products: Common Use Errors and Design Considerations

Manufacturers have a responsibility to predict likely use errors and, wherever possible, to “design out” the error such that the user automatically uses the product as intended to reduce use-related harm.

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Breathing life into a new use experience vision: The Smith+Nephew myTSF™ Mobile App

Learn how our Human Factors Research & Design team helped the Smith+Nephew myTSF™ Mobile App with user interface design, formative usability testing and HF validation testing.

Overview of New Brazilian Regulation RDC 751/2022

In this Emergo by UL webinar, our subject matter expert outlines the latest updates to the new Brazil regulation.

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Fractyl: Revita® DMR (duodenal mucosal resurfacing) System

Discover how our HFR&D experts supported Fractyl on various topics, including the formative and HF validation test strategy of their product (Revita® DMR [duodenal mucosal resurfacing] System).

Nuubo®: The Nuubo System

Uncover how our HFR&D experts helped a small startup with no experience in HFE regulations bring a non-invasive, remote electrocardiograph (EDG) to market.

Stryker: Neptune 3 Waste Management System

Learn how our HFR&D experts helped Stryker development the Neptune 3 Waste Management System.

UCB Cimzia® AutoClicks®

Discover how our team of HFR&D experts supported UCB’s development of Cimzia® AutoClicks®.

Boehringer Ingelheim International GmbH: Respimat®

Learn how our HFR&D experts were able to assist Boehringer Ingelheim throughout the entity of HFE process.

National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST): NIST GCR 15-996

Learn how our team of HFR&D experts conducted a multi-year research effort to develop guidance on the process of designing a user-centered electronic health record and specific software user interface elements.

Merck KGaA: RebiSmart

Discover how our HFR&D experts improved the usability and use-safety of Merck KGaA’s electronic autoinjectors to bring their device to market in Europe.

Ivenix, Inc.: Ivenix Infusion System

Learn how our HFR&D team conducted the comprehensive HFE testing of Ivenix Inc.’s large-volume infusion pump to meet FDA requirements.

Insmed Incorporated: ARIKAYCE®

Discover how our HFR&D experts helped Insmed Incorporated bring their drug application, ARIKAYCE®, to market.

Avanos Medical Inc.: ON-Q pump with SELECT-A-FLOW

Discover how our HFR&D experts helped Avanos Medical Inc. apply a highly intuitive, user-centered design to their ON-Q pump with SELECT-A-FLOW variable rate controller, ultimately, enabling the device's users to focus on patient care.

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Making the Most of Your Investment in Human Factors