Patient Education Key as Home Medical Devices Pose Patient Safety Threat

Patient Engagement February 2, 2024
Sara Heath

At-home medical devices can be confusing to use, posing a potential patient safety hazard, but experts say patient education and user-centered design could help.

The move to hospital-at-home and home use of medical devices could be the biggest threat to patient safety this year, according to ECRI, prompting industry stakeholders to call for human-centered design on these devices and better patient and caregiver education for their use.

In its Top 10 Health Technology Hazards for 2024, ECRI called out usability and instructions as a threat to the proper use of at-home medical devices and, ultimately, patient safety.

Hospital-at-home models and other models promoting remote patient monitoring are making consumer use of medical devices more common, ECRI said. With more care...

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