Eric Dishman on Health Care as a Team Sport
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HFES 2013 Health Care Symposium – Day 1
The first day of the HFES Health Care Symposium has come to an end. Some of the highlights include:
- Getting an updated from Edmond Israelski about the ANSI/AAMI/IEC 62366 standard, including that it’s going to be divided into two parts – normative & informative. Proposed publication is sometime in 2015.
- Cindy Miller & Amy Gallenberg talking about the advantages of using a “decoupled” model for incorporating usability into the product development process.
- Stephen Wilcox discussing why human factors should have a larger role in the creation of new technology & the importance of shifting resources to the “fuzzy front end” of development.
- Sara Waxberg and Pat Baird “role playing” during their talk “Selling HF to the HF-Challenged: The Business Case for Human Factors in Industry.”
- Having a nice conversation with Lynn Strother, Executive Director of HFES, about the future direction of the organization over the next couple years.
- Talking to Sue Hignett about the Dial-F model she’s developed with some colleagues.
I’m looking forward to seeing what develops tomorrow.
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HFES 2013 Health Care Symposium
Tomorrow is the start of the 2013 Symposium on Human Factors and Ergonomics in Health Care: Advancing the Cause in Baltimore. The symposium will “bring together professionals and stakeholders in both the scientific and practice realms of the health-care community to bridge knowledge gaps among them. HF/E professionals will present the latest research, best practices, and case histories.”
I’m looking forward to connecting with colleagues, meeting new people, and learning about the latest in health care and human factors. It should be a great event!
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Atul Gawande on Fixing Medicine
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Leadership Quote #12
“To some extent the conventional views of leadership are shallow, and set us up for endless disappointment. There is an element of wanting to be rescued, of wanting a parental figure who will set all things right. Such fantasies for grown-up children should not lead us to dismiss the need for leaders nor the insistent popular expression of that need. A great many people who are not given to juvenile fantasies want leaders – leaders who are exemplary, who inspire, who stand for something, who help us set and achieve goals.” (Gardner, 1990, p. xi)
Reference
Gardner, J.W. (1990). On leadership. New York: The Free Press.
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