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		<title>Human Factors Resources for Health Care Professionals</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In the past, I’ve posted numerous times on the topic of health care.  Most recently I posted a working presentation on the topic entitled, Human Factors is Vital for Transforming Health Care in the 21st Century.
Unfortunately, many health care professionals have never heard of HFE, let alone understand how its’ principles, methods, and tools [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thehumanfactorblog.com/2012/02/01/human-factors-resources-for-health-care-professionals/</link>
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		<title>Human Factors is Vital for Transforming Health Care in the 21st Century</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Human Factors is Vital for Transforming Health Care in the 21st Century 
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		<link>http://www.thehumanfactorblog.com/2012/01/31/human-factors-is-vital-for-transforming-health-care-in-the-21st-century/</link>
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		<title>Human Factors as an Innovation for Patient Safety</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In 2010, Pascale Carayon published an article in Applied Ergonomics entitled Human Factors in Patient Safety as an Innovation.
It’s an important article for a couple reasons.  First, it provides one of the best justifications I’ve seen for why Human Factors and Ergonomics (HFE) should be considered an innovation.   As the article notes, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thehumanfactorblog.com/2012/01/28/human-factors-as-an-innovation-for-patient-safety/</link>
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		<title>Introduction to Macroergonomics</title>
		<description><![CDATA[According to Hendrick and Kleiner (2002), macroergonomics is “the subdiscipline of ergonomics that focuses on the design of the overall work system.  Conceptually, a top-down sociotechnical systems approach to the design of work systems and the carry-through of the overall work system characteristics to the microergonomic design of human-job, human-machine, and human-software interfaces to ensure [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thehumanfactorblog.com/2012/01/25/introduction-to-macroergonomics-2/</link>
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		<title>Dan Buettner on Universal Lifestyle Behaviors</title>
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		<link>http://www.thehumanfactorblog.com/2012/01/24/dan-buettner-on-universal-lifestyle-behaviors/</link>
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		<title>The Rise of the e-Patient</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ The Rise of the e-Patient 
 View more presentations from Pew Research Center&#8217;s Internet &#038; American Life Project 

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		<link>http://www.thehumanfactorblog.com/2012/01/19/the-rise-of-the-e-patient/</link>
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		<title>Health IT and Patient Safety Report</title>
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Last November, the Institute for Medicine (IOM) issued a prepublication copy of a report entitled Health IT and Patient Safety: Building Safer Systems for Better Care. According to the press release, the purpose of the report is:
To protect Americans from potential medical errors associated with the use of information technology in patient care, a new [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thehumanfactorblog.com/2012/01/17/health-it-and-patient-safety-report/</link>
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		<title>U.S. Health Spending in 2010</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In the January 2012 issue of Health Affairs, Martin, et al. published the latest National Health Expenditure Account estimates in their article “Growth in US Health Spending Remained Slow in 2010; Health Share of Gross Domestic Product was Unchanged from 2009.”
National Health Expenditure Accounts are estimates of the “… total annual dollar amount of health [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thehumanfactorblog.com/2012/01/13/u-s-health-spending-in-2010/</link>
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		<title>ANSI Z535.6-2011 Overview</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ ANSI Z535.6-2011 Overview 
 View more presentations from Eric Shaver 

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		<link>http://www.thehumanfactorblog.com/2012/01/11/ansi-z535-6-2011-overview/</link>
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		<title>ANSI Z535.6-2011</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last September, the newly updated and revised ANSI Z535 series was published by NEMA (see my prior post on this topic here).  The series consists of six standards, including ANSI Z535.6-2011 American National Standard for Product Safety Information in Product Manuals, Instructions, and Other Collateral Materials.
ANSI Z535.6-2011, first published in 2006, was developed “…to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thehumanfactorblog.com/2012/01/10/ansi-z535-6-2011/</link>
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		<title>St. Luke’s Center for Healthcare Innovation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On June 7, 2011, David C. Pate, M.D., J.D., President and CEO of the St. Luke’s Health System, gave the lunch keynote at IdaVation 2011.  During the presentation, he announced that the St. Luke’s Health System (@StLukesHealth) would be starting a Center for Healthcare Innovation in the near future.
Last week, Dave Chase (@chasedave) wrote [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thehumanfactorblog.com/2012/01/09/st-luke%e2%80%99s-center-for-healthcare-innovation/</link>
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		<title>Focused Ultrasound Surgery</title>
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		<link>http://www.thehumanfactorblog.com/2011/12/29/focused-ultrasound-surgery/</link>
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		<title>Career Advice from Andy Grove</title>
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I recently finished reading “Only the Paranoid Survive: How to Exploit the Crisis Points that Challenge Every Company and Career” by Andrew S. Grove.
Dr. Grove is one of the co-founders of Intel Corporation, where he served in a variety of roles including COO, President, CEO, and Chairman of the Board.  Currently he serves as [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thehumanfactorblog.com/2011/12/21/career-advice-from-andy-grove/</link>
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		<title>NTSB Recommends Cell Phone Ban for Drivers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday, the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) called “…for the first-ever nationwide ban on driver use of personal electronic devices (PEDs) while operating a motor vehicle.”
This was one of many recommendations emerging  from an investigation of a multiple-vehicle accident that occurred in Gray Summit, Missouri on August 5, 2010.
The NTSB also released a Fact [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thehumanfactorblog.com/2011/12/14/ntsb-recommends-cell-phone-ban-for-drivers/</link>
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		<title>Alarm System Research Literature Review</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Earlier this year, I posted the cover sheet, table of contents, and executive summary for an alarm system research literature review I co-authored with Curt Braun, Ph.D. and John Grimes, M.S.  Below is the full report:
 A Human Factors Perspective on Alarm System Research &#38; Development 2000 to 2010 
 View more documents from Eric [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thehumanfactorblog.com/2011/11/25/alarm-system-research-literature-review/</link>
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		<title>Mark Hyman on a Systems Approach to Health Care</title>
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		<link>http://www.thehumanfactorblog.com/2011/11/16/mark-hyman-on-a-systems-approach-to-health-care/</link>
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		<title>Team Methods</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday, I posted a sample of Teams Resources.  One of the books I referenced was by Stanton, et al. (2004).  The book includes a section devoted to team methods and includes the following chapters:

Team Training
Distributed Simulation Training for Teams
Synthetic Task Environments for Teams
Event-Based Approach to Training (EBAT)
Team Building
Measuring Team Knowledge
Team Communications Analysis
Questionnaires for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thehumanfactorblog.com/2011/11/15/team-methods/</link>
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		<title>Teams Resources</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In the past, I’ve posted on the topic of teams &#8211; see here, here, here, here, here, and here for further details.  I’m going to continue this series of posts over the next couple months.
As a refresher, let’s start with a generally accepted definition of teams:
“…are composed of two or more individuals who (a) [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thehumanfactorblog.com/2011/11/14/teams-resources/</link>
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		<title>Asking the Right Questions about Leadership</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The January 2007 issue of the American Psychologist was a Special Issue on Leadership featuring six articles on the topic. Robert J Sternberg noted in the forward to the special issue that “…leadership has not been a leading topic in the field of psychology,” thus the special issue was created in an effort to begin [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thehumanfactorblog.com/2011/11/13/asking-the-right-questions-about-leadership/</link>
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		<title>Top 10 Mistakes in Behavior Change</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Top 10 Mistakes in Behavior Change 
 View more presentations from BJ Fogg 

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		<link>http://www.thehumanfactorblog.com/2011/11/12/top-10-mistakes-in-behavior-change/</link>
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		<title>The Divided Brain</title>
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		<link>http://www.thehumanfactorblog.com/2011/11/11/the-divided-brain/</link>
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		<title>World Usability Day 2011</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today is World Usability Day.
Started in 2005 by the Usability Professionals’ Association “…to ensure that the services and products important to life are easier to access and simpler to use.”
Each year it has a different focus.  This year the theme is: “Education: Designing for a Social Change.”
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		<link>http://www.thehumanfactorblog.com/2011/11/10/world-usability-day-2011/</link>
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		<title>Macroergonomics Methods</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday, I posted a list of Macroergonomics Resources.  One of the books I referenced was by Stanton, et al. (2004).  It has a section devoted to macroergonomics methods and includes the following chapters:

Macroergonomic Organizational Questionnaire Survey (MOQS)
Interview Method
Focus Groups
Laboratory Experiment
Field Study and Field Experiment
Participatory Ergonomics (PE)
Cognitive Walk-Through Method (CWM)
Kansei Engineering
HITOP Analysis™
TOP-Modeler©
The CIMOP System©
Anthropotechnology
Systems [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thehumanfactorblog.com/2011/11/09/macroergonomics-methods/</link>
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		<title>Macroergonomics Resources</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In a previous post, I provided an Introduction to Macroergonomics, which included, among other things, a formal definition:
“the subdiscipline of ergonomics that focuses on the design of the overall work system.  Conceptually, a top-down sociotechnical systems approach to the design of work systems and the carry-through of the overall work system characteristics to the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thehumanfactorblog.com/2011/11/08/macroergonomics-resources/</link>
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		<title>Handbook of HFE in Health Care and Patient Safety, 2nd Ed</title>
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Later this month, the 2nd Edition of the Handbook of Human Factors and Ergonomics in Health Care and Patient Safety will be published by CRC Press.  The book is edited by Pascale Carayon and includes the following chapters:
Introduction

Human Factors and Ergonomics in Health Care and Patient Safety
Opportunities and Challenges in the Pursuit of Patient [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thehumanfactorblog.com/2011/11/07/handbook-of-human-factors-and-ergonomics-in-health-care-and-patient-safety/</link>
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