Medical Instrumentation: Accessibility and Usability Considerations / Edition 1

by Jack M. Winters, Molly Follette Story

Overview

Two of the most important yet often overlooked aspects of a medical device are its usability and accessibility. This is important not only for health care providers, but also for older patients and users with disabilities or activity limitations. Medical Instrumentation: Accessibility and Usability Considerations focuses on how lack of usability and accessibility pose problems for designers and users of medical devices, and how to overcome these limitations.

Divided into five broad sections, the book first addresses the nature and extent of the problem by identifying access barriers, human factors, and policy issues focused on the existing infrastructure. The subsequent sections examine responses to the problem, beginning with tools for usability and accessibility analysis and principles of design for medical instrumentation. Building on this foundation, the third section focuses on recommendations for design guidelines while the fourth section explores emerging trends and future technologies for improving medical device usability. The final section outlines key challenges, knowledge gaps, and recommendations from accomplished experts in the field presented at the recent Workshop on Accessible Interfaces for Medical Instrumentation.

Integrating expert perspectives from a wide array of disciplines, Medical Instrumentation traces a clear roadmap for improving accessibility and usability for a variety of stakeholders and provides the tools necessary to follow it.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780367453404
Publisher:	CRC Press
Publication date:	12/09/2019
Pages:	474
Product dimensions:	7.00(w) x 10.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Jack M. Winters, Ph.D., is professor of biomedical engineering and John P. Raynor Distinguished Chair at Marquette University and director of the RERC on Accessible Medical Instrumentation. Since receiving a Ph.D. in bioengineering from the University of California, Berkeley and San Francisco, he has been a biomedical engineering faculty member for 20 years, twice serving as department chair. His areas of research include movement biomechanics, neurorehabilitation, telerehabilitation, and accessible medical instrumentation. Molly Follette Story, M.S., is president of Human Spectrum Design, L.L.C. and codirector of the RERC on Accessible Medical Instrumentation. From 1994 to 2004, she was coordinator of research at the Center for Universal Design at North Carolina State University and twice served as its interim executive director. She is also a Ph.D. student in ergonomics at University of California–Berkeley.

Table of Contents

Part I Background: The Problem, Existing Infrastructure, and Possible Solutions

Chapter 1 The Patient's Perspective on Access to Medical Equipment June Isaacson Kailes 3

Chapter 2 Results of a National Survey on Accessibility of Medical Instrumentation for Consumers Jill M. Winters Molly Follette Story Kris Barnekow June Isaacson Kailes Brenda Premo Erin Schwier Sarma Danturthi Jack M. Winters 13

Chapter 3 Emerging Human Factors and Ergonomics Issues for Health Care Professionals Molly Follette Story 29

Chapter 4 Toward a New Health Care Policy: Accessible Medical Equipment and Instrumentation June Isaacson Kailes Brenda Premo Curtis Richards 41

Chapter 5 Role of Tax Law in the Development and Use of Accessible Medical Instrumentation Steven Mendelsohn 59

Part II Tools for Usability and Accessibility Analysis

Chapter 6 Applying the Principles of Universal Design to Medical Devices Molly Follette Story 83

Chapter 7 Using Ethnographic Research to Develop Inclusive Products Stephen B. Wilcox 93

Chapter 8 Educating Engineers in Universal and Accessible Design Robert E. Erlandson John D. Enderle Jack M. Winters 101

Chapter 9 Assistive Technology Devices and Universal Design Assessments: Theoretical Relationships and Implications on Measurement Roger O. Smith Kathy Longenecker Rust Stephanie Siegler 119

Chapter 10 Tools for Sensor-Based Performance Assessment and Hands-Free Control Gerald E. Miller 131

Chapter 11 Ergonomic Evaluation and Design of Handheld Medical Devices David M. Rempel Thomas M. Armstrong Ira Janowitz 143

Chapter 12 Usability Testing by Multimedia Video Task Analysis Thomas Y. Yen Robert G. Radwin 159

Chapter 13 The Mobile Usability Lab Tool for Accessibility Analysis of Medical Devices: Design Strategy and Use Experiences Jack M. Winters David R. Rempel Molly Follette Story Melissa R. Lemke Alan Barr Sean Campbell R. Sarma Danturthi 173

Chapter 14 Comparison of Accessibility Tools for Biomechanical Analysis of Medical Devices: What Experts Think Melissa R. Lemke Jack M. Winters 191

Part III Considerations in Design Guideline Development

Chapter 15 Accessibility Standards and their Application to Medical Device Accessibility Daryle Gardner-Bonneau 215

Chapter 16 Human Factors Standards for Medical Devices Promote Accessibility Michael E. Wiklund 225

Chapter 17 Designing Accessible Medical Devices Ron Kaye Jay Crowley 233

Chapter 18 Letting User Ability Define Usability James L. Mueller 243

Chapter 19 Macroergonomic and Implementation Issues of Guidelines for Accessible Medical Devices Pascale Carayon Anne-Sophie Grenier Carla Alvarado 255

Chapter 20 Reducing Error and Enhancing Access to Home Use of Medical Devices: Designing from the Perspective of the Home Care Provider Marilyn Sue Bogner 267

Chapter 21 Use of Problem-Solving Tools of TRIZ to Address Equipment Design for Home Care John W. Gosbee 277

Chapter 22 Development of the Medical Equipment Device Accessibility and Universal Design Information Tool Roger O. Smith Kris Barnekow Melissa R. Lemke Rochelle Mendonca Melinda Winter Todd Schwanke Jack M. Winters 283

Chapter 23 Access to Medical Instrumentation: The Role of Web Accessibility Judy Brewer 297

Part IV Considerations in Emerging Trends and Technologies

Chapter 24 Technology for Full Citizenship: Challenges for the Research Community Katherine D. Seelman 307

Chapter 25 Future Possibilities for Interface Technologies that Enhance Universal Access to Health Care Devices and Services Jack M. Winters 321

Chapter 26 Trends to Watch: Trends in Information and Communications Technology That May Influence Developments in Access to Medical Instrumentation Alfred S. Gilman 341

Chapter 27 Emerging Personalized Home Rehabilitation: Integrating Service with Interface Xin Feng Jack M. Winters 355

Chapter 28 Progress in Using the Universal Remote Console Standard to Create User-Customized Interfaces for Future Medical Devices R. Sarma Danturthi Pawan Shroff Jack M. Winters 373

Chapter 29 Usability and Access Issues in Telerehabilitation Linda van Roosmalen 393

Chapter 30 Applications and Issues with Wireless Technology in Medical Care John W. Peifer Michael L. Jones 405

Part V Outputs of the Workshop: Key Knowledge Gaps, Barriers, Recommendations

Chapter 31 Report of the Workshop on Accessible Interfaces for Medical Instrumentation: Draft Guidelines and Future Directions Jack M. Winters Molly Follette Story 419

Appendix 1 Chairs' Perspectives on Workshop Breakout Theme C: Interfaces for Home Health Care Devices Daryle Gardner-Bonneau Binh Q. Tran 445

Appendix 2 Commentary on Distinguishing Accessibility from Accommodation David Baquis 449

Appendix 3 Commentary on Data, Models, and Procedures for Design of Accessible Medical Instrumentation Thomas J. Armstrong 451

Appendix 4 Commentary on What Is Accessibility? And What Does It Have to Do with Medical Device Design? Ron Kaye Jay Crowley 453

Appendix 5 Commentary on the Difference between "Usability" and "Accessibility," Which May Be the End Users Molly Follette Story 455

Glossary of Terms 457

Index 463