Matthew Weinger, MD, provides an overview of 15 years of human factors research on point-of-care work processes in the medical domain, primarily in anesthesiology. Research projects to be discussed include field observations, device evaluations, and controlled studies in both real and simulated care environments. Methods for the conduct of task analysis, workload assessment, and event analysis will be emphasized.

Paul Micheli and Julie Mills are Usability Engineers at GE Healthcare in their anesthesia and ventilator division. They discuss how they take in account patient safety initiatives in their user interface design work. The focus is the importance of good user interface designs for anesthesia and ventilator devices.