Medical Systems
Our Medical Systems services can help reduce healthcare delivery errors and ensure that patients receive the highest quality care possible. PSE is an industry leader in using human factors guidelines, standards, and principles to make medical devices and systems safer and more effective.
PSE's fully equipped usability testing lab collects both quantitative and qualitative data from actual users while they operate a device. This information can then be used to identify and remedy human factors deficiencies in device design and operation.
Our Medical Systems services include:
- Field evaluations of medical devices in their use environment
- Design interfaces for medical devices and software
- Usability testing of medical devices and software
- Evaluate and design instructional materials, device labeling, handbooks, and user manuals
- Critique and design audio, video, and multimedia training packages
- Human performance studies of medical devices and supporting systems
- Assist manufacturers in meeting government requirements and standards (e.g., FDA Quality System Regulation)
See some examples
Online Medical Incident Reporting
Thorough documention is the first step in preventing healthcare delivery errors that are responsible for thousands of deaths and injuries every year. PSE helped one of the largest medical centers in the world address this problem. Learn more...
The New Quality System Regulation
Satisfying the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's complex Quality System Regulation often results in time and cost inefficiencies. PSE has a set of tools for training your staff. Learn more...
Human Factors in Radiation Therapy
See how PSE helped the Nuclear Regulatory Commission identify the root causes of misadministrations during remote afterloading brachytherapy treatment sessions. Learn more...
Building a Better Interface
See how PSE helped Walter Reed Army Medical Center improve their frustrating and time-consuming text-based information management system. Learn more...
Clinical Research Study: Telephonic Case Management
PSE collaborated with Sharp HealthCare and Pfizer to ensure that valid research methods and statistical techniques were applied in a clinical research study that assessed the effectiveness of a standardized telephonic case-management intervention for patients with chronic heart failure. Learn more...
Computerized Medication Management
PSE is developing an online medication management tool for reducing drug administration errors. Learn more...
For more information contact David Kobus, PhD, CPE
