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E. ISRAELSKI ADDRESSES PATIENT SAFETY AT USABILITY DAY IN PRINCETONPRINCETON, NJ - October 26. (UsabilityNJ) “The Institute of Medicine estimates almost 100,000 deaths annually in the US are due to medical errors. Some of these deaths may be attributed to poor human factors in the design of medical equipment,” said Edmund W. Israelski, Ph. D., Abbott Laboratories, Inc, (NYSE: ABT) in a recent interview. “There are a number of standards that are recommended by regulators to ensure the proper use of Human Factors Engineering in the design of medical products.” Israelski, with degrees from New Jersey Institute of Technology, Columbia University, and Stevens Institute of Technology, will address this year’s World Usability Day in New Jersey on November 14 at Sarnoff Corporation Auditorium in Princeton. As the human factors program manager at the medical device and pharmaceutical company, Israelski leads a cross-division team to use best-practice human factors design methods to ensure safety and usability. Since the theme of this year’s World Usability Day is “New Jersey Innovations Make Life Easy,” Israelski focuses on innovations in usability that are needed not only to make life easier for health care professionals, but also safer for patients and clients. Israelski offers insights into what is unique in the regulated field of the design control process for medical devices. Such insights are important to the audience for New Jersey Usability Day: business people, professionals, students, and faculty in areas of business entrepreneurship, communications, marketing, design, human factors, psychology, engineering, and computer science. New Jersey Usability Day is co-sponsored by UsabilityNJ, a local chapter of the Usability Professionals' Association, and by the joint Princeton New Jersey chapters of ACM and IEEE-Computer Society. For more information, visit www.usabilitynj.org and www.worldusabilityday.org . About UsabilityNJ: UsabilityNJ, the New Jersey chapter of the UPA, hosts professional and educational events through the year. UPA is an international, non-profit, professional association with more than 2000 members in the US and 50 other countries. Members are specialists in evaluating and designing products that are easy to learn and use. For more information, visit www.upassoc.org . About Princeton ACM/IEEE-Computer Society: the local chapter is a joint forum for Central New Jersey area computer professionals since 1979; visit www.acm.org/chapters/princetonacm. END
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