Doing the Summative Usability Evaluation (User Tests Medical Device Compliance - IEC 62366)

Dr. Oliver Eidel · IEC 62366: Medical Device Usability Engineering · Updated November 26, 2025
The IEC 62366 requires us to do something called a "summative usability evaluation". For normal humans, this means conducting a user test. Let's look at how you could conduct a user test for a software medical device and document it in a way which contains all the relevant information which auditors expect to see.

00:00 Introduction & recap
01:32 IEC 62366 requirements (summative evaluation)
03:53 Executing user tests with humans
05:27 How cool is this
08:56 Doing another user test

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Dr. Oliver Eidel

Dr. Oliver Eidel

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