Using Medical Device Logs for Improving Medical Device Design

Triangulating empirical and analytic techniques for improving number entry user interfaces

“…Cauchi et al [2] however, describe how commercial medical device logs fail to give useful insight into interaction design issues for designing infusion pumps. For the type of analysis carried out in [1], the logs analysed from infusion pumps from three different leading manufacturers do not give us enough information to study real world human error.…”

“…So far, the analytic evaluation of number entry interfaces has been carried out on five-key interfaces in [1,2] and on number pad interfaces in [8]. In the present work we are extending the analytic method from [1] to evaluate and compare the number entry systems studied by Oladimeji et al in [5].…”

“…Lee et al [16] and Cauchi et al [2] have analysed medical device logs. Lee et al [16] present valuable insight into how infusion pumps are used in hospitals, how we can gain insight into hospital infrastructure, how much it costs for nurses to attend to alarms over a period of a year and other interesting findings that can significantly improve healthcare systems.…”

“…Cauchi et al [1,2] studied the five-key number entry system (shown in figure 1c) by developing an analytic method to study different implementations of the same physical style of number entry. This gave insights into how a single UI can be implemented in several different ways, some of which are more likely to cause serious harm than others.…”

Using gherkin to extract tests and monitors for safer medical device interaction design

“…Given such a list of principles (with a more comprehensive one in [2]), the following sections attempt to tackle the problem of effectively communicating them to software developers who in turn have to provide solid evidence that the principles have indeed been correctly implemented.…”