Human Factors Healthcare Lab

The Human Factors Healthcare lab is dedicated to the study of the interaction between clinicians and healthcare systems. The lab promotes diverse interdisciplinary research to increase our understanding of the capabilities and limitations of professional operators, the characteristics of the healthcare environment, and their interface, in an effort to improve  system efficiency and patient safety.

Current research projects
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Commanders’ Decision-Making During Mass-Casualty Incidents
Modeling emergency medical services (EMS) commander's decision-making process during mass-casualty incidents

Using supplementary visual patterns to improve medication labels identification 
Investigating the improvement in medication identification through the use of labels enriched with visual patterns

Using deep learning to identify medication containers
Improving medication safety through an apparatus that use a visual classifier to distinguish between medication containers, for the use of clinicians at hospitals' wards

Implementing Safety II
How to identify and learn from successful safety features