http://www.businessol.com/usability-blog Usability, Information Architecture and Good Design Tue, 08 Sep 2009 16:31:28 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://www.businessol.com/usability-blog/2009/02/bad-friday-updated-31009.html/comment-page-1#comment-282 Bad Friday [updated 3/10/09] « Re:Cognition – Usability … Tue, 08 Sep 2009 16:31:28 +0000 http://businessol.com.php5-5.dfw1-1.websitetestlink.com/usability-blog/?p=149#comment-282 [...] See the original post here: Bad Friday [updated 3/10/09] « Re:Cognition – Usability … [...] [...] See the original post here: Bad Friday [updated 3/10/09] « Re:Cognition – Usability … [...]

]]> http://www.businessol.com/usability-blog/2006/10/machine-that-fried-its-patients.html/comment-page-1#comment-280 Sam Wed, 28 Nov 2007 21:14:00 +0000 http://businessol.com.php5-5.dfw1-1.websitetestlink.com/usability-blog/?p=130#comment-280 That is a sobering story. I just heard a story on the radio this morning that a hospital in Rhode Island had put a temporary halt to all brain surgeries going forward. This moratorium was the result of 3 separate surgeries, over the past year, in which the wrong side of a patient's brain was operated upon. Not sure if that can be tied back to poor usability, but clearly a lack of proper preparation. That is a sobering story. I just heard a story on the radio this morning that a hospital in Rhode Island had put a temporary halt to all brain surgeries going forward. This moratorium was the result of 3 separate surgeries, over the past year, in which the wrong side of a patient's brain was operated upon. Not sure if that can be tied back to poor usability, but clearly a lack of proper preparation.

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