Title :
A Computer Supported Memory Aid for Copying Prescription Parameters into Medical Equipment Based on Linguistic Phrases
Author :
Sandnes, Frode Eika ; Yo-Ping Huang
Author_Institution :
Fac. of Technol., Art & Design, Oslo & Akershus Univ., Oslo, Norway
Abstract :
Manually operated medical equipment, including drug infusion pumps, are often subject to input errors. Human operators copy data from a prescription into the relevant form field on the equipment panels. This process is error prone and time consuming. A computer supported memory aid is proposed where the user remembers phrases instead of value sequences. The proposed strategy speeds up the task of setting up medical equipment while reducing the chances of human errors.
Keywords :
drug delivery systems; medical computing; user interfaces; computer supported memory aid; drug infusion pump prescriptions; linguistic phrases; medical equipment; prescription parameters copying; Biomedical equipment; Computers; Drugs; Educational institutions; Error analysis; Hospitals; Pragmatics; digit input; medical user interface; memory aid;
Conference_Titel :
Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC), 2013 IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Manchester
DOI :
10.1109/SMC.2013.588