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Steven J. Weisner

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Draeger Medical

Steve is Senior Advisor to President/CEO of Draeger Medical Systems. He is responsible for strategic planning of Draeger Medical patient monitoring and clinical information systems. Formerly, Steve was Vice-President of Software Development at Radianse, Inc. Radianse develops applications that provide asset tracking and an integrated view of Patient and Staff Location, ADT, Labs, Orders and Bed Status enabling hospital staff to improve: patient throughput; staff satisfaction, resource management and patient safety. Before joining Radianse, Steve managed and developed software for sophisticated, mission-critical products for 25 years with Hewlett-Packard and Philips. He has run through more than 15 product cycles from product inception, requirements gathering, specification, implementation, verification, end-customer validation, release and deployment. Steve has worked closely with clinical customers from across the world to design the right solutions to improve the quality of care and reduce hospital costs. He has developed embedded, windows and web-based software products across the broad spectrum of patient monitoring, clinical information systems and large-scale wired and wireless networked solutions. Steve has a BS in Biology from Cornell University and an MS in Biomedical Engineering from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He holds two patents for software user interfaces and processes.

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Publications by Steven J. Weisner (bibliography)

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Weisner, Steven J. (1988): A Touch-Only User Interface for a Medical Monitor. In: Proceedings of the Human Factors Society 32nd Annual Meeting 1988. pp. 435-439.

“A touchscreen interface was tested as the exclusive means for interfacing with a computer-based monitor for the hospital intensive care environment. The use of touch in the medical environment combined with the fact that it was the sole means of user communication presented several human engineering challenges. Human factors testing of the design used 75 hours of mockup review by 38 clinical and administrative staff. In addition, 680 hours of field trial testing in the intensive care environment by 39 hospital staff were performed. The minimum size of visual and touch-sensitive target areas and the proximity of adjacent areas was determined. The touch recognition algorithm was modified to more accurately recognize near-edge targets. The use of a touch-sensitive QWERTY keyboard for patient name and id entry was shown to be acceptable. N-key rollover was deemed not viable with a touch interface in the critical care area. A swivel mount was introduced to compensate for different height and handed end-users.”

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