Human Factors Engineering

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Discovering relationships between health system performance and clinicians interaction with their work environments (patients, computers, equipment) provides evidence for re-design. Analyzing data from health information technology, real-time locating systems, and observation facilitates in-depth investigations of these interactions. In this context, we have performed human factors studies of clinician situation awareness, workload, and task analyses.

Physician work tasks observed in the emergency department.

Physician patient load distribution over the day with burdened shift (red) highlighted.