Human Factors in Health Care

1.5 credits · Graduate

Introduces a framework for considering human factors in health informatics. Includes study of human-computer interaction in the design of a range of health informatics applications, user analysis, workflow modelling, consideration of research and methods for evaluating system usability and socio-technical aspects of successful health care system design. In addition, approaches to the design of systems that are safe and that reduce human error in health care are emphasized.