Prof Harold Thimbleby …
Recent papers on healthcare, IT, and medical apps
With thanks to my many colleagues: Paul Cairns, Abigail Cauchi, Ross Koppel, Paul Lee, Alexis Lewis, Karen Li, Patrick Oladimeji, John Williams, Albert Wu, and others.
Recent controversies over pandemic modelling
About cybersecurity, including WannaCry
- Lessons From the 100 Nation Ransomware Attack — link to blog with Prof Ross Koppel, University of Pennsylvania
- Cybersecurity problems in a typical hospital (and probably in all of them)
- Safety versus Security in Healthcare IT
General overview
- Improve IT ... improve health
- Trust me I'm a computer
- Preventable error
- Making healthcare safer by understanding, designing and buying better IT
- The Healthtech Declaration
- Improving safety in medical devices and systems
- MediCHI: Safer Interaction in Medical Devices
- Designing IT to reduce drug dose error
Human error
Mostly about apps
- Safety hazards in clinical calculators and apps (poster)
- Safety hazards in clinical calculators and apps (abstract)
- What makes a good clinical app?
- Literature review for apps
- Managing Gravity Infusion Using a Mobile App
- Drug calculations shouldn't be dangerous
Mostly about numbers
- Reasons to Question Seven Segment Displays
- Interactive numerals
- Safer user interfaces: A case study in improving number entry
- Reducing number entry errors: solving a widespread, serious problem
- Unreliable numbers: Error and harm induced by bad design can be reduced by better design
Mostly about infusion pumps
- Analysis of infusion pump error logs and their significance for health care
- Safer "5-key" number entry user interfaces using Differential Formal Analysis
- Issues in number entry user interface styles: Recommendations for mitigation
Other topics
- Understanding User Requirements in Take-Home Diabetes Management Technologies
- Interactive Technologies for Health Special Interest Group
- Ignorance of Interaction Programming Is Killing People
On this infusion pump, the rate is simultaneously shown as 0.02 mL/h and in an error warning as minus 0.1 (it’s exsanguinating!). What does the log say, and who will be to blame for any harm?
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