Good Label and Package Practices - Guide for Prescription Drugs

This Health Canada publication, released in June 2016 is a wealth of information.

Many of the recommendations not only apply to packaged prescription medications, but can be viewed as concrete recommendations to incorporate into digital health design and output. Font size, plain language, colour / contrast, abbreviations etc.

The line "The design of a health product should meet the user’s needs within the environment of use" hits the mark. How many times are products (which could include digital outputs) not tested with users. Then errors happen. Digital health outputs needs to communicate information clearly - no matter who the audience is (patients, pharmacists, nurse, prescribers).

Here is the link: bit.ly/2k1BuwL

Lisa