Eight human factors and ergonomics principles for healthcare artificial intelligence.

Mark Sujan; Rachel Pool; Paul Salmon

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Eight human factors and ergonomics principles for healthcare artificial intelligence.

November 2, 2022

Sujan M, Pool R, Salmon P. BMJ Health Care Inform. 2022;29(1):e100516.

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Engineering and design concepts are being applied across many health care domains to improve safety. This article summarizes 8 tenets from human factors and ergonomics practice to reduce the potential for the pressures of humanness to detract from the safe use of artificial intelligence.

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