Improving safety and usability in medical devices

Our world-renowned Human Factors group provides rich insight and an independent evidence base to guide and review product development decisions, if necessary challenging our internal teams and our clients. Our pragmatic approach to implementing well designed and cost effective research on behalf of our clients ensures that the devices we work on are optimised for their intended users.

Over the last 10 years we have developed reliable methodologies and analytical approaches to meet the demand for human factors engineering throughout development. We analyse the analysable and research the researchable and then we are honest about what is left. And we focus on the important areas – patient safety and usability, relying on both analytical and empirical approaches to achieve valuable insight.

What can you expect when you come to Team?

• A project team focused on really understanding how users interact with your products and concepts, looking at what is said and, most importantly, what isn’t said
• Insight that can have a profound impact on product development, regulatory approval and the commercial success of your device.
• Experience in researching a wide range of users, from surgeons and healthcare professionals to children and seniors
• Real world experience based upon recent studies in: diabetes, asthma (including paediatric asthma), COPD, rheumatoid arthritis, osteoarthritis, multiple sclerosis, Parkinson’s disease, oncology, nephrology, chronic pain, hepatitis and many more.

Our strengths

• Opportunity identification and user requirements research
• Ethnographic research
• Human factors consultancy and advice
• Human factors engineering (HFE) plan development
• Human factors analysis (e.g. task analysis)
• Use-related risk assessment
• Formative usability studies
• Summative usability validation studies
• User preference and acceptance research
• Aesthetics/visual language/branding research
• Instructions for use

Next steps

Contact one of our consultants to discuss your requirements in confidence.  If we can help we will be pleased to submit a detailed proposal including clearly defined objectives, activities, deliverables, costs and time scales.