Free tool · Use-Environment Blueprint

Find what will break in the real ward — before your pilot does.

For MedTech, medical robotics, rehabilitation robotics and digital health. Most products that struggle in practice don't fail technically — they fail because the people, needs, places, routines and organisation around them were different from what the team assumed. Blueprint your use environment in eight human-centred, research-based areas and get a readiness score, a human-centred design check, a complexity profile and an action plan.

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Step 1 · Start

Blueprint the real environment your product will live in

Most MedTech, robotics and digital health products that struggle in practice don't fail technically — they fail because the people, needs, places, routines and organisation around them were different from what the team assumed. Work through eight areas, rate each one, then get your blueprint.

What are you building? *
Who is in the team mapping this?
Go and lookSpend at least one shift on site. Observe before you ask.
Rate honestlySay how you know: observed, told, or assumed.
Involve the forgottenNight staff, cleaners, porters, technicians, relatives.
Human-centred and research-based. The blueprint follows the six principles of human-centred design (ISO 9241-210), the work-system model used in patient-safety research (SEIPS: people, tasks, technology, environment, organisation) and the NASSS framework, which explains why health technologies are not adopted, abandoned or fail to scale. Sources are listed with your results.

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Step 9 · Prioritise

Your top 5 risks and what to test next

Pick the five risks from your blueprint that matter most. Rate the impact and name one concrete test for each — before the pilot.

#RiskImpactTest next
Step 10 · Site visit

Site visit checklist

All 32 field checks in one place. Tick what you have done — it counts as field evidence in your blueprint.

Step 11 · Results

Your blueprint

An automatic reading of your answers: how well you know the environment, how human-centred your process is, how complex the environment is, and what to do next.

Use-Environment Blueprint

Your product

Details

Blueprint readiness
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Environment complexity
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Summary
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Complexity profile

Human-centred design check

Your eight areas in detail

Top risks and tests

Blind spots and uncertainty

Your action plan

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How this blueprint works. The process follows the six principles of human-centred design in ISO 9241-210 [8]. The eight areas follow the SEIPS work-system model (people, tasks, tools and technology, physical environment, organisation) [1, 2]. Complexity is rated per area as simple, complicated or complex, following the NASSS framework and its complexity-assessment tools [3, 4]; NASSS proposes that the more domains are complex, the lower the chance of sustained adoption. The adoption questions reflect widely used technology-acceptance factors — usefulness, effort, social influence and supporting conditions [5] — and the field checks draw on reviews of robots in nursing care and hospitals [6, 7]. The scoring itself is a Servizions heuristic: a prompt for discussion, not an expert judgement.
  1. Holden RJ, Carayon P, Gurses AP, et al. SEIPS 2.0: a human factors framework for studying and improving the work of healthcare professionals and patients. Ergonomics. 2013;56(11):1669–1686. Link
  2. Carayon P, Wetterneck TB, Rivera-Rodriguez AJ, et al. Human factors systems approach to healthcare quality and patient safety. Applied Ergonomics. 2014;45(1):14–25. Link
  3. Greenhalgh T, Wherton J, Papoutsi C, et al. Beyond adoption: a new framework for theorizing and evaluating nonadoption, abandonment, and challenges to the scale-up, spread, and sustainability of health and care technologies. J Med Internet Res. 2017;19(11):e367. Link
  4. Greenhalgh T, Maylor H, Shaw S, et al. The NASSS-CAT tools for understanding, guiding, monitoring, and researching technology implementation projects in health and social care. JMIR Res Protoc. 2020;9(5):e16861. Link
  5. Venkatesh V, Morris MG, Davis GB, Davis FD. User acceptance of information technology: toward a unified view. MIS Quarterly. 2003;27(3):425–478. Link
  6. Servaty R, Kersten A, Brukamp K, et al. Implementation of robotic devices in nursing care. Barriers and facilitators: an integrative review. BMJ Open. 2020;10:e038650. Link
  7. Rasmussen MK, Schneider-Kamp A, Hyrup T, Godono A. New colleague or gimmick hurdle? A user-centric scoping review of the barriers and facilitators of robots in hospitals. PLOS Digital Health. 2024;3(11):e0000660. Link
  8. ISO 9241-210:2019. Ergonomics of human-system interaction — Part 210: Human-centred design for interactive systems. Principles summarised in: Travis D. ISO 13407 is dead. Long live ISO 9241-210! Userfocus. Link

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  • Blueprint readiness score with breakdown
  • Environment complexity and your position
  • Infographic of your blueprint (PNG download)
  • Detailed analysis of all eight areas: findings, what they mean and next steps
  • Complexity profile across eight areas
  • Human-centred design check against six principles
  • Top risks, blind spots and a three-stage action plan
  • Print and download
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