Our experience

We work with world leading organisations to  deliver Medical and Healthcare products that focus on safety, efficiency and usability for all users.

Ergonomie takes a systems thinking approach to provide solutions for optimising the efficiency and safety of complex healthcare organisations and systems.

Many of our clients have worked with us for several years and across multiple projects including international medical equipment companies, and leading manufacturers and suppliers of procedure packs and medical consumables.

With experience in Human Factors for medical products internationally, we understand different requirements to ensure successful designs. We can help to make your products safer, more efficient, and improve user satisfaction.

Areas of work include:

• Developing Human Factors Integration standard operating procedures for product development

• Review against international standards and guidance documents for compliance

• Use-related risk analysis for FDA submissions

• Anthropometric research for the fit of medical products to ensure usability and improve comfort

• User trials for the assembly and operation of medical products

• Research into strengths capabilities of users and durability of products

• Requirements gathering and heuristic evaluation

• Apply a Systems Ergonomics approach to solving complex problems in healthcare organisations and systems

• Recruitment of participants and facilitation of usability testing

• Protocol development for user trials and product testing for formative and summative testing

• Task analysis

• Failure mode error analysis

• Development of user interfaces including products and remote controls

• Redesign of surgical products

• Independent reviews of user guides and product support materials

• Hospital and healthcare facility design

• Patient experience

• Optimise healthcare worker efficiency and reliability, workload, fatigue, human error risk

• Training for high risk healthcare roles