Health Care Trends: Medical Devices and "Human Factor" Engineering
Executive Summary
As patient safety emerges as a top priority in health care, there's been a steady stream of new regulations and heightened oversight designed to satisfy concerns that the right things are being done to ensure the safety of medical products. For medical device manufacturers, this atmosphere has intensified scrutiny of product design, a trend that could become even more acute later this year when the Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation releases a new set of best practices for Human Factors engineering.