Human Factors in Healthcare: human error vs. design error

Thoughts on how to improve patient safety through the implementation of Human Factors

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Yet another example of a manufacturer that points to human error to justify design errors.
"How Boeing’s Responsibility in a Deadly Crash ‘Got Buried’" from The New York Times.

Yuval Bitan: Yuval Bitan is a researcher and a Human Factors engineer, specialized in ways to improve patient safety through the implementation of human factors principles in the healthcare complex working environment. Yuval was a Research Associate at the Cognitive Technologies Laboratory (University of Chicago, Illinois), HumanEra (University Health Network, Toronto, Canada) and at the University of Toronto. Yuval holds a Ph.D. in Human Factors Engineering from the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Be'er-Sheva, Israel, where he teaches at the department of Health Policy and Management, and leads SimReC - The research center for simulation in healthcare.

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