Index of blog posts

• Making medical devices safer – insights from the CHI+MED project (funded by @EPSRC)
• Patient Safety Awards 2016
• Button batteries can kill if swallowed
• Aviation and its contribution to healthcare (free talk in London, 25 Nov)
• [Free, London] The magic of {Christmas} Computer Science – magic show for secondary schools
• Workshop at #OzCHI – SmartHealth: 7th International Workshop on Technologies for Health and Wellbeing
• Computing and magic – Paul Curzon’s workshops for children at the Royal Institution, London, 18 August
• Can Standards and Regulations Keep Up With Health Technologies? – new Viewpoint article in JMIR mHealth uHealth
• FDA warns about cybersecurity re: hacking risk for hospital infusion pump
• Dr Sarah Wiseman (@oopsohno) is giving a public talk tomorrow on human error @Ri_Science, 6pm, £12/8
• How to report a problem with a medical device, in the UK
• Pharmacy legislation: Government consultation [closes 14 May] on learning from dispensing errors #ptsafety
• CHI+MED’s at the @QMEECS Research Showcase on Wednesday 22 April 2015 @QMUL
• Introducing: free booklet “The magic of computer science: magic meets mistakes, machines and medicine”
• [mini post] An accident waiting to happen – a potentially dangerous road crossing
• [mini post] On-air swear: John Inverdale’s #Errordiary-worthy slip of the tongue
• .@oopsohno – winner of #ShareMyThesis w her work on number entry and medical devices
• AMIA webinar w Dr Dom Furniss from @UCLIC on medical device design & distributed cognition
• MHRA news: Committee on the Safety of Devices (CSD) now Devices Expert Advisory Committee (DEAC), has new chair
• [London, Science, Sat 21 Feb] Family Fun Day at the Royal Institution (@Ri_Science) w @oopsohno
• Free workshop for Computing teachers in London with a CHI+MED flavour (from Paul Curzon of @cs4fn/ @TeachingLDNComp)
• Prof Peter McOwan from CHI+MED is at @BrightonScience tomorrow w a show on magic & medicine #BrightSparks
• Letter to The Times, Prof Harold Thimbleby (@SwanseaUni) on driverless cars, health IT & safety
• Short course in health app design at UCL, March 2015
• [Edinburgh] Royal College of Physicians, Edin: The challenge of computerisation in hospitals “first do less harm”
• Call for submissions – we’re having a symposium on interactive medical devices in Reading (UK) in June
• Where’s the @ key? An unintuitive interface on a photocopier / scanner
• Patient Safety resources online – and how you can add yours, via @CHAIN_Network #ptsafety #patientsafety
• [London, 18 Nov, FREE] The App-othecary: is the future of medicine calling? #AMSapp via @oopsohno
• Our latest newsletter is here – Newsletter 8
• NICE has two consultations on medicines (optimisation; care homes)
• Some examples of public engagement and science communication projects from CHI+MED
• “Travel with medications, medical devices can be daunting” – study shows it can be difficult to know what to advise patients
• Habit-forming: don’t forget to take your pills, and how do you remember them?
• Scott Adams (Dilbert creator) on everyday error and ‘temporary idiocy’
• Medical devices and Human-Computer Interaction – one day tutorial at #NordiCHI2014, w CHI+MED
• Animal-computer interaction at #NordiCHI14, via @realhamed
• Are you using health apps to manage your #diabetes? What do you think of them?
• “Icon Do Better” – a symbols-matching (and creating!) game
• [Free, Bridgend] NAMDET & MHRA Roadshow on medical devices (regulation, incident reporting) – 7 July 2014
• Festival for Digital Health (pt 2) – 30 June 2014: human factors, human error, healthcare & well-being
• Festival for Digital Health at UCL – chi+med’s @JoIacovides is giving keynote academic talk tomorrow evening
• Book giveaway: 5 copies of ‘Fieldwork for Healthcare’ (Vol 1) to be won, thanks to @MorganClaypool (publishers)
• CHI+MED’s Swansea team have won the GE Healthcare Award for Outstanding Impact in Health and Wellbeing
• We’ve published an article in The Ergonomist about our public engagement activities
• How to get involved with the research on our chi+med project (making medical devices safer)
• T1 #diabetes – MSc student needs 10 people to help evaluate device (transfers glucose readings to iPhone)
• Being smart; staying safe: why we make mistakes and how to avoid them – a talk in London (24 June, 7pm)
• Raising awareness of human error in healthcare through a persuasive games competition
• The MHRA wants medical devices people to user test their website (it’s moving to GOV.UK)
• Suggestions needed: #films about error, safety, blame culture, resilience eg The Dish, Apollo 13
• Medical devices and open source hardware – a workshop report from ThingsCon by @gendor
• PhD studentships in health technology @UCLIC (UCL Interaction Centre)
• Can you do this drug calculation? With added answer, and explanation
• Can you do this drug calculation?
• Sonification of medication barcode readers – not always effective
• Patient Safety Congress, Liverpool 21-22 May 2014 – #ptsafety
• Calling UK teachers – free copies of cs4fn issue on computer science and medical devices
• MEDTEC – events in London & Stuttgart for medical device designers
• Swansea: come and help create a prototype health app for people with high blood pressure
• Machines Making Medicine Safer – @chi_med joins forces with @cs4fn’s computing magazine for schools
• Medical devices, human factors, #hci, ergonomics, error – tweets from various conferences (a collection of collections)
• Call for participation: IDHF2014 – interaction design, human factors, usability, #HCI, error
• [Video] Medical Device Training: User interfaces, design issues, and avoiding medical error
• Festival for Digital Health – call for papers (for UCL students and non-UCL student collaborators)
• Near misses and medical error – how a systems approach can change safety culture (short video)
• Celebrating* errors – #FailBetter exhibition in Dublin, by @oopsohno (*well, at least trying to learn from them)
• CHI+MED at free London event “Tweeting for science: #CitizenScience meets social media”
• Brighton Science Festival: trying out our interactive number entry game
• Brighton Science Festival: Bright Sparks Saturday, come & meet @chi_med
• London, FREE, talk – Designing IT to make healthcare safer, Prof Harold Thimbleby, 11 Feb 2014 at Museum of London
• The @errordiary project gets a mention in Prof @Tony_Mann’s Gresham talk
• CHI 2014: workshop on Human-Computer Interaction Research in Healthcare and two books for HCI Researchers
• [Training course, London] Medical Device Usability and IEC 62366 , 30 April -1 May 2014 [deadline 4 April]
• [London, talk, free] User error: why it’s not your fault | Gresham College
• [London event] Calling all student game designers – Persuasive Games Competition!
• Good with numbers – can you make 952 from 3, 6, 25, 50, 75 & 100… in 30sec?
• [London, UCL] Two distinguished lectures on medical safety – Tuesday 14 Jan 2014
• “Pathology results needing urgent action could be accidentally archived due to error in reporting system”
• “…imagine then being charged (with) manslaughter for a drug error…”
• Tweets from #IEHF – Patient & Healthcare Provider Safety event
• MHRA consultation on draft #ptsafety alerts for medical device incidents & medication errors
• [London, talk, 20 Nov] Next Generation Medical Devices with Integrated Optical and Ultrasonic Sensors
• 19 Nov: Tweetchat with @OurDiabetes: Resilience & Error Diaries – on avoiding errors in #diabetes self-management
• ‘My First Mistake’ reflections on handling a medical mistake & resources, from @drohanlon’s blog
• Using everyday errors to understand more serious ones with #Errordiary
• Two examples of wrong-site surgery shared this weekend via social media
• Newly launched: Errordiary competition (& ‘space shuttle’ @EndeavErr)
• How do you avoid errors in healthcare? Please share your resilience strategies
• The buttons on this Royal Albert Hall lift have more buttons on top of them
• Can resilience strategies help with diabetes management?
• Sessions from chi+med’s annual meeting: Sarah Wiseman on numbers, hack days and comedy
• [Symposium, London] IEHF Healthcare SIG – Patient & Healthcare Provider Safety symposium, Mon 25 Nov 2013
• [London] NAMDET 2013 (#MedicalDevice Education) conference: Plugging the Gaps in Device Governance & Training – 10 December 2013
• If you’re in Edinburgh this weekend there’s some science comedy with @oopsohno on 17th & 20th August 2013
• Thinking about system failures in the recent Spanish train crash – comments from Harold Thimbleby
• [Training course, London] Medical Device Usability and IEC 62366 , 17-18 Sep 2013 [deadline 19 Aug]
• Some tweets about Harold Thimbleby’s talk at #SOUPS2013, the Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security
• [New journal] International Journal of Human-Computer Studies – call for papers
• Interesting paper: “It’s all about communication” – human factors and ergonomics in medical device design
• Who remembers ‘The Human Factor’ exhibiton at the Science Museum, London, 1999?
• BBC’s Watchdog interviewed Sarah Wiseman about online banking errors
• [Event, Wales] Medical Device Directive – MediWales Regulatory & Procurement seminar 1 July 2013
• Human Factors ‘How to guide’ – resources from @ClinicalHF
• “Patient & Healthcare Provider Safety” one-day symposium from @ukiehf, London 25 Nov 2013 via @DomFurniss
• Sarah Wiseman (@oopsohno) on doing stand up comedy about her number entry research
• Computer / interactive devices / health / technology conferences and workshops coming up in June 2013
• Wrong! Free event at Wellcome Collection (London) on Human error #wellcomewrong
• (Free) Online debate about Public Engagement in higher education, from the Guardian Higher Education Network, Friday 12pm BST
• [Training course, online, free] for healthcare professionals & the public: The science of safety in healthcare #ptsafety
• Ticket machines: on trying to be helpful, even if intention did not match outcome
• Harold Thimbleby’s 24 May 2013 talk @InfAtEd (Edinburgh Uni’s Informatics department) via @mariawolters
• Improving Wikipedia’s human factors articles, an idea from @danielpjenkins via @UKIEHF’s Ergonomist mag
• [Free event] Ann Blandford will be talking on “engineering for human wellbeing” in London, 3 July 2013, 6pm.
• Patient Safety Resources – a new patient safety resource from the Health Foundation #ptsafety
• “When is a medical error a crime?” Ann Blandford on just culture and “Collateral Damage” #ptsafety
• Using Storify to maintain a collection of tweets from events and conferences – a ‘how to’ guide
• CHI+MED awards its first public engagement mini-grants – to Peter McOwan, Ed Burton, Dom Furniss and Sandy Gould
• Infusion devices (pumps) – some resources (posters / presentation) from MHRA and NHS
• From BBC News “Hospitals reveal 750 ‘should never happen’ blunders” #ptsafety
• The Patient Safety Conference starts tomorrow, hashtag is #NPSF15 http://npsfcongress.org/ #ptsafety
• Home haemodialysis and distributed cognition – new CHI+MED paper published
• MHRA’s monthly list of Medical Device Alerts (MDAs) &sign up to receive MDAs by email from MHRA & FDA
• A little CHI+MED comedy for those in London on 9 May
• Children with cancer: medication errors in the home (via @trishagreenhalgh @DrAnnaLCox)
• Pinterest: some Creative Commons images that illustrate the CHI+MED project
• Saving lives by design: bolstering protection against mistakes made when using medical devices
• For those not at #chi2013 – watch the preview videos at home, via @paulesque and @kurtluther
• A nice post on human factors and how they apply to healthcare, from @aami_connect
• The importance of people-centred design – “Design that makes a difference”
• Congratulations to Harold Thimbleby who has won a #chi2013 best paper (on 7-segment displays)
• “How to avoid mistakes in surgery” Horizon programme about human factors available on YouTube, or from BBC Active
• Free educational materials from the Interaction Design Foundation @interacting
• London: Free Helen Hamlyn @HHCDesign & Norwegian Design Council #inclusivedesign exhibition @ RCA, closing 26 April
• Computer science: distinguished lecture in Swansea (23 April), chi+med workshops @ #chi2013 (Paris, 27 / 28 April)
• Tweets from #EHF2013 – Ergonomics & Human Factors 2013
• CHI+MED’s most downloaded papers
• Putting CHI+MED research (into interactive medical devices) in context
• Patient Safety resources – mailing lists (discussion and update-only) #ptsafety
• Medical device & HCI events coming up in – conference workshops, surveys
• Avoiding death by computer – Harold Thimbleby’s talk (video or audio) at Gresham College
• Patient Safety resources – current awareness / research scan updates #ptsafety
• Computing Now | IEEE Intelligent Systems | Call for Papers | May/June 2014 – Special Issue on Smart and Connected Health – IEEECS
• Interesting paper: Designing devices with the task in mind: which numbers are really used in hospitals?
• Survey: what infusion pumps are used in your organisation?
• Short survey – Numbers: familiar or unfamiliar? Your help needed…
• Resilience strategy – creating a ‘placebo’ bus stop for patients with dementia #rsdiary
• Prof Ann Blandford on “How to avoid mistakes in surgery”: a summary and commentary #horizon
• From @healthfdn – report: Safety culture: What is it and how do we monitor and measure it? #ptsafety
• Tweets from #COME2013 – Communicating Medical Error conference in Switzerland
• New AHRQ report clarifies which safety strategies work & how best to use them – reblogged from @CCAVoice
• [Training course, Oxford] Human Factors, Teamwork & Communication [in a surgical environment], 13-17 May 2013
• UK television: “How to avoid mistakes in surgery” Thur 21 March, 9pm, BBC2 w @Kevin_Fong #horizon
• [Training course, London] Medical Device Usability, 16-17 April 2013 [deadline 22 March]
• ‘National Advisory Group’ to advise the NHS on preventing patient harm
• Reblogged: Black boxes in operating rooms: should hospitals copy aviation for safety? via @Patient_Safety
• Interesting paper: Analysis of infusion pump error logs and their significance for health care (BJN Intravenous Supplement)
• Reblogged from AAMI blog: Making infusion pumps more user centric, from @aami_connect
• Reblogged: How to certify health information system software? | Simbioses Research Lab
• Interesting paper – Medical technology at home: safety-related items in technical documentation #ptsafety
• A collection of tweets from various conferences – Storify
• AAMI / FDA International Conference – 20-21 March 2013, Herndon, VA
• Tweets (so far) from #HFES – Human Factors & Ergonomics in Health Care
• RCA on Root Cause Analysis – reblogged from Safety Dog’s blog
• Materials (video, presentations) from “Medical devices: is the new legislation sufficient to protect patients?”
• *London* EICS2013 chi+med workshop: DACCHI – dynamic & continuous computer-human interaction – call for papers (clos 8 April 2013)
• Conference: The many meanings of quality in healthcare: interdisciplinary perspectives – call for papers
• [London] Free lecture – How computers get it wrong: 2+2 = 5, Prof Tony Mann, 6pm today (4 March 2013), Gresham College
• Patient Safety (primary care) PhD Studentships available at NIHR Greater Manchester Primary Care #ptsafety closes 2 April 2013
• Our latest newsletter is now available
• Join @cs4fn and @chi_med at the Brighton Science Festival on Sunday 17 Feb from 10-5 at Hove Park Upper School, BN3 7BN
• Ann Blandford & Chris Vincent will be speaking at EHF2013 in April, there’s also a Healthcare Symposium on 17th ^JB
• [Swansea] Unsafe in any bed – public lecture with CHI+MED’s Prof Harold Thimbleby, 26 February 2013, 6.30pm
• PhD students – save the date: IEHF Doctoral Consortium + event on the safety & usability of interactive medical devices
• Meeting: Devices and human factors, Royal College of Physicians, 4 Feb 2013 – free #ptsafety
• Call for participants: HCI Fieldwork in healthcare – creating a graduate guidebook (a CHI 2013 workshop) cc @sig_chi
• Call for participants: MediCHI 2013: Safer interaction in medical devices (a CHI 2013 workshop) cc @sig_chi
• Public engagement / outreach resources: some of our activities and videos
• RCN’s #HFactors conference – tweets from the delegates
• Dr Joseph Cafazzo – TEDxToronto – on better medical device design and living well
• Widening participation: engaging female students in Computer Science using role models
• Thoughts on pal. – a redesigned intravenous infusion pump
• CHI+MED’s Prof John Williams interviewed by BCS about patient records & role of CCIO
• Encyclopedia of Human-Computer Interaction, available free online #openaccess #oa
• [London] IEEE Workshop on Engineering Standards – 18 Sep 2012 @ City University
• Rajkomar & Blandford’s paper has been recommended by @F1000 – infusion administration | ICU | distributed cognition
• "Save the patients" game: can you set up the drug pumps correctly for your patients before the timer runs out?
• Design for safety – Ann Blandford profiles the CHI+MED project for "Science & Technology"
• Free Webinar on Multiple IV Infusion Safety – 7pm, 30 May 2012 via @DomFurniss
• CHI+MED event: 1st Safe Interaction Summit, Fudan University, Shanghai – 7 June 2012
• "Half of NASA thought they were using pounds per square inch… the other half…" avoiding number entry errors
• Centre for Human Interaction Design at City Uni: open day Thur 12 April via @cityuni_hcid
• NAMDET: The National Association of Medical Devices Educators and Trainers
• The Comedy of (Human) Error and Resilience
• What numbers are really used in hospitals? CHI+MED’s Sarah Wiseman has been counting them
• CHI+MED Patient Safety and Medication Error Workshop Nottingham 24/25 March (free) #ptsafety
• Design oops. Which button should you press to get ??30 from this cash machine?
• Join chi+med and @cs4fn for some Family Fun at the Brighton Science Festival on Sunday 12 February 2012
• [London] @chi_med’s @DomFurniss is giving a brief talk at UCL on “being resilient to human error”, featuring pie.
• Our expanding list of human computer interaction, design, ergonomics and related conferences and workshops
• What might seem like a piddling error…
• Sarah Wiseman on digit distribution: analysis of numbers entered into infusion pumps
• #errordiary: a collection of everyday mishaps
• When technology design provokes errors – Prof Ann Blandford’s Lunch Time Lecture now online
• CHI+MED’s Professor Peter McOwan wins the IET’s Mountbatten Medal for 2011
• Clinical Human Factors Group survey on standardising clinical practice – your input needed
• Free London event featuring CHI+MED’s work – invitation to Researchers’ night #QMUL
• Patient Safety Week 2011, 12-18 September. ‘It starts with me’ #ptsafety #ptsafetyweek
• A Medical Device in the Making – video from the FDA
• Suzette Woodward, NPSA director of patient safety, to host patient safety webchat on 3 August 2011 #ptsafety
• This one-day creativity and design symposium may be of interest to Londoners – Create 2011: The interaction design symposium
• Award winning CHI+MED film promotes good ‘interaction design’ for medical devices
• Find out more about CHI+MED’s research at #hci2011, #ewdc2011 etc – conference papers accepted
• London seminar – Clinical Human Factors Group’s "Embedding Clinical Human Factors" – 19 April 2011
• Open invite to Prof Ken Eason’s lecture at EHF2011 – Ergonomics & Human Factors (conference attendance not essential)
• Sharing patient safety information across the globe
• How easy is it to enter the right numbers on a syringe pump?
• Putting users at the heart of interactive medical device design
• Human error, resilient strategies & device design – a short video
• Case study: “Out by ten” – Samuel McIntosh died after receiving 10 times the correct dose of a salt solution
• An amusing short film illustrating the importance of user-centred design – important for patient safety too
• Fatal misprogrammed chemotherapy pump taken home (Canada, 2007)