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Renée Bailey

Instructional Materials: The Basis for Safety Between Users and Medical Devices

By Renée Bailey
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Renée Bailey

Instructional materials help users grasp how to use a device safely. Renée Bailey, Certified Instructional Technologist (CIT), explains how effective instructional materials are vital for the medtech design process, and shares necessary considerations to produce instructions that are coherent, easy to understand and aligned with the human factors engineering process.

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Sean Hägen

BlackHägen Design Announces Death of Founder and Human Factors Engineer Sean Hägen

By MedTech Intelligence Staff
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Sean Hägen

Hägen, who was a contributor to Medtech Intelligence, spent 28 years building BlackHägen Design to support clients in the development of “mission-critical” products. He was pivotal in the advocacy of human factors and good design practices for medical devices and was at the forefront of patient safety initiatives, helping to found the Industrial Designers Society of America (IDSA) Patient Safety Committee. 

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