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EVS-EN 60601-1-6:2010

Medical electrical equipment -- Part 1-6: General requirements for basic safety and essential performance - Collateral Standard: Usability

General information
Valid from 07.06.2010
Base Documents
IEC 60601-1-6:2010; EN 60601-1-6:2010
Directive 93/42/EEC (Medical devices) Notice: This European standard does not necessarily cover the requirements introduced by Directive 2007/47/EC.

Standard history

Status
Date
Type
Name
17.08.2021
Main + amendment
03.08.2021
Amendment
15.11.2019
Main + amendment
08.06.2015
Amendment
07.06.2010
Main
08.04.2010
Corrigendum
IEC 60601-1-6 specifies a process for a manufacturer to analyse, specify, design, verify and validate usability, as it relates to basic safety and essential performance of medical electrical equipment. Medical practice is increasingly using medical electrical equipment for observation and treatment of patients. Use errors caused by inadequate medical electrical equipment usability have become an increasing cause for concern. This usability engineering process assesses and mitigates risks caused by usability problems associated with correct use and use errors.

EN 60601-1-6:2010 can be used to identify but does not assess or mitigate risks associated with abnormal use. Much of ME equipment developed without applying a usability engineering process is non-intuitive and difficult to learn and use. As healthcare evolves, less skilled operators including patients themselves are now using medical electrical equipment while the equipment itself is becoming more complicated.

The usability engineering process is intended to achieve reasonable usability, which in turn is intended to minimise use errors and to minimise use-associated risks. IEC 60601-1-6:2010/A1:2013 is intended to clarify the elements of the usability engineering process that are required for compliance with the IEC 60601 series. The text of IEC 60601-1-6:2010 has been approved in Europe as EN 60601-1-6:2010 without any changes.
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