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The RERC on Accessible Medical Instrumentation (RERC-AMI) is guided by
the vision that all persons should have access to healthcare instrumentation and
services and to employment in the healthcare professions regardless of
disability.
The goals of the RERC-AMI are to
increase knowledge of, access
to, and utilization of healthcare instrumentation and
services by individuals with disabilities;
increase awareness of and access to
employment in the healthcare professions by individuals
with disabilities; and
serve as a national center of excellence for
this priority area.
The RERC is being conducted collaboratively by partners in the
Midwest and on the East and West Coasts. This national team conducts research,
development and training projects and targets dissemination of project results
to those constituencies most affected by their work: individuals with
disabilities, healthcare service providers, and healthcare instrumentation
manufacturers.
Specific research projects include:
- needs
analysis for people with disabilities as both recipients and providers
of healthcare
services, and for manufacturers of healthcare instrumentation;
- usability
analyses to determine what makes certain medical instrumentation either
exemplary or
problematic yet essential to healthcare service provision;
- accessibility
metrics, using universal usability analysis to identify classification
and measurement approaches that could be used to explore metrics for
accessibility of medical instrumentation; and
- policy
analyses to
explore how medical policies affect healthcare utilization and employment in
the healthcare professions of persons with disabilities.
Specific development projects include:
- developmental
of tools (Mobile Usability
Lab) for usability and accessibility analysis;
- development
of modified and new
accessible medical instrumentation;
- development
of emerging, accessible
healthcare technologies, through monitoring of
trends and involvement in demonstration projects; and
- development of
design guidelines for accessible medical instrumentation and model policies
for healthcare service provision.
Resource Information:
For more information:
call:
414-288-6640
(fax: 414-288-7938 )
email: jack.winters@marquette.edu
write: Dept.
Biomedical Engineering, PO Box 1881 , Marquette
University, Milwaukee, WI 53201-1881
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