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Invited to serve on a National Board of
Medical Examiners
committee to create
human factors engineering and patient safety
questions for national exams taken by
medical students and residents.


October 2011
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Invited to provide a customized human
factors engineering workshop to FDA-CDRH
to increase the application of HFE to pre-
market and post-market review
.

Silver Spring, MD
September 2011
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Completion of studies commissioned by
Canadian Patient Safety Institute on role of
typography design in reducing look-alike
medication errors (e.g., TALLman,
bolding,
reverse lettering).


June 2011
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"Top 10 Ways to Easily Identify Human
Factors Engineering Hazards" published in
Biomedical Instrumentation & Technology:
Fall 2010, Vol. 44, No. s1, pp. 17-24.
more info
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Red Forest Consulting presents HFE
Workshop at University of Toronto
Dept of Medicine
Certificate in Patient Safety
Toronto, Ontario
December 2010
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Red Forest Consulting invited by Canadian
Patient Safety Institute to contribute to the
revision of the Canadian Root Cause
Analysis Framework.
September 2010
more info
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Joint Commission releases
2nd Edition of the book Using Human Factors
to Improve Patient Safety
Edited by John Gosbee & Laura Lin Gosbee
September 2010
more info

Red Forest Consulting provides human factors engineering (HFE) expertise to
health care businesses who want to integrate HFE into their patient safety, product development,
or product evaluation processes.
  

Human Factors Engineering is the applied science behind making things easy to use. As HFE
practitioners, we bring the knowledge about how people think and work, and apply that to
designing efficient, reliable, and easy to use systems. In the health care world, this means
reducing the risk for errors and minimizing the cognitive or physical workload of clinicians, which
are all essential to the goal of keeping patients safe.
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Joint Commission Resources publication

Using Human Factors Engineering to Improve Patient
Safety: Problem Solving on the Front Line, 2nd Edition
Edited by John Gosbee and Laura Lin Gosbee

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