Officers
| Melissa Baysari, Chair
Professor of Human Factors University of Sydney, Australia |
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| Marijke Melles, Co-chair
Associate Professor Human-Centered Design for Quality of Care |
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| Armagan Albayrak, Co-chair Assistant Professor, Human-Centred Design for Healthcare Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands Email: a.albayrak@tudelft.nl |
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| Sara Albolino, Co-chair Director, Unit for Organizational Development and Quality Improvement, Teaching Hospital Policlinico Umberto, La Sapienza University, ItalyEmail: Sara.albolino@gmail.com |
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| Hamid Norasi, ECR Co-chair Assistant Professor of Health Care Systems Engineering College of Medicine and Science, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA Email: norasi.hamid@mayo.edu |
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| Saydia Wesley, ECR Co-chair
Human Factors Research Fellow University of Oxford, UK Email: saydia.wesley@nds.ox.ac.uk |
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| Adeola Bamgboje-Ayodele, ECR Co-chair
Research Fellow University of Sydney, Australia |
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| Eva-Maria Carman, ECR Co-chair
Human Factors Specialist, Queens Medical Centre, Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust, UK evi.carman@gmail.com |
Contact
Contact Melissa Baysari for more information or to join this Technical Committee.
Email: melissa.baysari@sydney.edu.au
Linkedin https://www.linkedin.com/groups/2224711
Objectives
- Actively contribute to the dialogue and interaction between human factors and ergonomics (HFE) specialists and other disciplines working for and within healthcare (medicine, engineering, psychology, architecture, sociology, management sciences)
- Collaborate with HFE specialists from other domains and integrate their knowledge and practice within the healthcare ergonomics knowledge domain
- Contribute to IEA congresses, HEPS conferences and other relevant conferences with special sessions, symposia, papers and group meetings on healthcare ergonomics
- Coordinate the HEPS Conference Steering Committee and support the organizers of the event
- Collect, review and share “best practices” and “best experiences” for improving HFE in healthcare
Topics of Interest
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- Healthcare information technology
- Usability of equipment and devices
- Decision-making, leadership and management of patient safety
- Non technical skills: teamwork, communication, situational awareness
- Handover and medication reconciliation
- Patient safety in specific clinical settings (eg. ER, OR)
- Optimizing work for staff (e.g. surgeons)
- Training and simulation
- Patient journey design
- Occupational ergonomics worker fatigue and patient safety
- Patient/citizen participation and education
- Patient Safety reporting and assessment
- Resilience and high reliability in healthcare systems
- Healthcare organization and management, and impact on work conditions, staff wellbeing, and patient safety
- Patient-doctor communication and (shared) decision making
- Sociotechnical system approach
- Human factors engineering & design for healthcare
- Research and design methods in healthcare
Current activities of the Healthcare Ergonomics TC
- HEPS
Our Healthcare Systems Ergonomics and Patient Safety (HEPS) Conference runs every three years. You can read about HEPS 2022 here: https://www.heps2022.com
The call for bids to host HEPS2025 is now open. If you would like to host the next conference, please contact Melissa: melissa.baysari@sydney.edu.au
- Journal special issue
- WHO guidance document: Applying HFE to healthcare for patient safety and health care worker safety
Our journals and books
HEPS proceedings
- HEPS2022 abstract book here
- HEPS2019 Conference Proceedings here
- HEPS2016 Conference Proceedings here
- HEPS2014 Conference Proceedings here
- HEPS2011 Conference Proceedings here
- HEPS2005 Conference Proceedings here
Other publications
- Journal special issue: Health and social care ergonomics: Patient safety in practice (2017) here
- Ergonomic Checkpoints in Health Care Work (2017) here
- Macroergonomics of Patient Work: Engaging Patients in Improving Sociotechnical Context of Their Work (2021) here
- Journal special supplement: Human Factors and Ergonomics in Healthcare (2021) here
