Human Factors - The Increasing Importance of Instructions for Use

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This free webinar will focus on the often overlooked but increasingly important area of Instructions for Use for medical products. From the perspective of human factors and usability engineering, Instructions for Use significantly impact the performance of the user to use medical devices safely and effectively and often are only used when the user has a problem. The webinar will look at why we need Instructions for Use to be usable, not only for safety but for regulatory approval and how you achieve that. It will address what predictions can be made from existing data and discuss what the future of Instructions for Use could be. This is an excellent opportunity to learn more about this important element of your regulatory submission.

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Recorded on 26 April 2023

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Overview

This free webinar will focus on the often overlooked but increasingly important area of Instructions for Use for medical products. From the perspective of human factors and usability engineering, Instructions for Use significantly impact the performance of the user to use medical devices safely and effectively and often are only used when the user has a problem. The webinar will look at why we need Instructions for Use to be usable, not only for safety but for regulatory approval and how you achieve that. It will address what predictions can be made from existing data and discuss what the future of Instructions for Use could be.

This is an excellent opportunity to learn more about this important element of your regulatory submission.

This course is part of our Regulatory Affairs Training course collection, which features updates on the latest regulations to registration procedures and strategies.

Benefits of Attending

Participants will gain an understanding of the importance of good quality Instructions for Use for medical products and why this part of device development is so important.

This is a 90-minute free event, book your place now!

Who Should Attend

Human Factors and Usability Engineers
Project Managers
Device Development Engineers and Managers
Technical Authors and Medical Writers
Regulatory Affairs professionals
Quality Engineers and Managers
Production Engineers and Managers

The Human Factors - The Increasing Importance of Instructions for Use course will cover:

Introduction to Human Factors Engineering for medical products
Why Instructions for Use are important for users
Why Instructions for Use are not the best risk mitigation method
Prediction of human behaviour in using Instructions for Use
Why attitudes to instructional materials are changing so rapidly
Key factors to consider when writing Instructions for Use
Cost vs usability for Instructions for Use - the common internal argument
Recommendations for future Instructions for Use
Q & A

Greg Thay
Thay Medical

Greg Thay is a Human Factors Consultant and Managing Director at THAY Medical – a specialist Human Factors Engineering consultancy focused on medical devices and pharmaceutical products. Greg has over twenty-five years’ experience in the medical and pharmaceutical industry with over fifteen years of these being in human factors and usability engineering. Greg has a passion for predicting future use of medical products – he believes medical errors can often be prevented with the thorough understanding of the human-device interaction and always strives for the best methods to gain this understanding.

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