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Usability Testing
Human factors/usability testing of medical devices not only makes the product better by designing with the user as the focal point it is also an FDA requirement as part of the 510(k) or PMA submission.
If you are responsible for getting a medical device ready for market we have extensive experience in this area and have prepared a presentation to educate on how we can help your company and product. For further information or questions on our Usability Testing processes please contact Intersection-Inc.or direct contact Milt Halsted at 949-533-9352.
To create a premium service to help you meet your Usability and Usability Testing / cmc / IFU requirements, Intersection has put together the most experienced team of experts in California to address your needs. Our group is led by Dr. Joely Gardner, widely known in Human Factors & Usability Testing services (See link to her recent presentation on IFU Testing: http://www.thedesignacademy.com/#!joely-gardner-article/ip8). Dr. Gardner has a Certificate in Project Management and is a licensed psychologist and a Fellow and Diplomate in the American Board of Medical Psychotherapists & Psychodiagnosticians. She has performed extensive usability testing and voice of customer research projects for companies such as Mitchell Medical, ThermoFisher (Life Technologies), Quest Diagnostics Clinical Trials Division, and Cardinal Health. She is a part-time professor at California State University at Fullerton in the graduate-level certificate program in Customer Experience and User-Centered Design.
The GE Carescape R860, a new patient ventilator that utilizes a full-touch human centered user interface, launches at first hospital slashing ICU costs in GE software test. The user interface, designed by Intersection-Inc and Bryan Powell, is an excellent example of how humanizing technology can directly increase ROI.
Sep 1, 2015, 10:15am EDT
Barrett J. BrunsmanStaff reporter
Cincinnati Business Courier
EXCLUSIVE: Cincinnati hospital slashes ICU costs in GE software test
Jewish Hospital reduced the average length of stay in its intensive care unit by 28 percent and saved nearly $9,000 per patient using new nutrition-monitoring software designed by General Electric Healthcare.
The hospital in Kenwood was the first in the nation to use GE Healthcare’scalorie-counting software. Installed in a GE ventilator that helps ICU patients breathe, the software is controlled via a touch screen that can be swiped with a finger like a smartphone.
Data provided in real time allowed hospital workers to quickly make decisions about critically ill patients. The clinicians created nutritional plans to improve patient outcomes, which reduced both the average length of stay in the ICU and the cost of care.
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