Connected medical devices offer benefits but also pose cybersecurity risks that can disrupt patient care. The FDA’s new guidance highlights the need for strong cybersecurity measures and provides recommendations for integrating these measures into human factors engineering to ensure device safety.
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Courtney Roberts
Partner
Courtney has 10 years of research experience, ranging from a boutique ethnography firm to a Fortune 500 industrial supply ecommerce company. Courtney brings in-house experience to Bold Insight, having worked closely with designers, developers, product managers, and business stakeholders in both Chicago and Germany. With a focus on quality, speed, and empathy, Courtney conducts and manages both UX and HF projects in the healthcare and consumer space.
Courtney holds an MA in Social Science from the University of Chicago with a focus on sociology and qualitative research methods. You can also find her guest lecturing about design research for a local UX/UI design bootcamp.



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- Enhancing medical device safety and effectiveness: Leveraging knowledge tasks in healthcare UX and human factors research
- Bold Insight and Eli Lilly and Company co-publish journal article on novel assessment tool to enhance medical device usability
- Bold Insight to launch AI research project at the 2024 HFES Health Care Symposium
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