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Quality Café: How Human Factors Principles Impact Health Care Systems

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Event Description

Human factors is about designing tasks, processes, environments and systems to help derive optimal human performance. This is especially important in health care today as our systems are even more challenged with many complexities. Join us to learn about human factors principles for improving quality and safety in the design of tools, machines, systems, tasks, jobs, and environments for safe, comfortable, and effective human use.

Learning objectives:

  • Describe the science of human factors.
  • Recognize opportunities for the application of human factors to quality improvement initiatives.

Presenter: Allison Muniak, Director, Administrative Burdens Working Group, HQBC

Event Details

Event Date and Time

October 18, 2023 | 1200 – 1300

Organizer

Health Quality BC

Location

Online (Zoom)

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We specifically acknowledge and express our gratitude to the keepers of the lands of the ancestral and unceded territory of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and səl̓ilwətaɁɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations, where our main office is located.

We also recognize Métis people and Métis Chartered Communities, as well as the Inuit and urban Indigenous peoples living across the province on various traditional territories.