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Finola Austin
Human Factors Lead
Owen Mumford

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Finola Austin is a highly experienced Human Factors Engineering manager, boasting 15 years’ experience in the mentorship and management of human factors services in safety-critical industries. Ms Austin has successfully planned and delivered human factors activities for hundreds of handheld medical devices, including autoinjectors, emergency-use devices, inhalers, injection pens and lancets.

Contributions

CONNECTIVITY
HARNESSING HUMAN FACTORS IN CONNECTED DEVICE DEVELOPMENT
Finola Austin looks at the role human factors testing plays in the development of connected drug delivery devices.

More contributions

INJECTION
HOW OWEN MUMFORD CARRIED OUT USABILITY TESTING UNDER COVID-19 RESTRICTIONS
Miranda Newbery describes working with Owen Mumford Pharmaceutical Services on usability testing for a platform autoinjector under covid-19 restrictions.
PREFILLED SYRINGES
AN INCLUSIVE APPROACH TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF PLATFORM MEDICAL DEVICES
Finola Austin discusses the difficulties presented by designing a user testing programme for platform devices when the target patient population is as yet unknown, and presents the testing framework based on seven user groups that Owen Mumford uses to meet this challenge.
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