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Supporting Patients with Complex Health Needs Using Human Factors Engineering

An investigation into human factors engineering as applied  by the Werner Lab in their work to design systems to support specialized healthcare users. A teenager suffered from brain damage and died two weeks after she received an organ transplant because the organs from her donor were incompatible with her blood type. An investigation into the […]

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article Fall 2019

Getting to the Heart of Predicting Cardiac Failure

Dr. Witzenburg designs models of the heart that predict how the heart will grow and change in response to cardiac heart diseases such as hypoplastic left heart syndrome (HLHS) to improve medical decision-making for clinicians. When it comes to cardiac surgery, clinicians are under pressure to make timely and logical clinical decisions. Without any formal […]