USE-Ing. brings the right healthcare professionals into your medical device development in a structured and MDR-compliant manner.
Recruiting the right clinicians as participants is essential for successful medtech usability studies. It enables realistic use scenarios, produces valid results, and supports the documentation needed for product development and regulatory submissions.
Correct fields of study and job profiles of the test subjects
Appropriate experience with relevant clinical workflows
Adequate candidate screening
Standard-compliant documentation in accordance with MDR, FDA, NMPA
Reliable and unbiased usability test results
Real roles | Real processes | Actionable results
Representative professionals demonstrate where operation works in everyday clinical practice—and where risks, time loss, or unnecessary complexity arise.
“In my opinion, taking real clinical workflows into account is crucial for the development of innovative medical technology.”
Senior Radiology Physician
“I enjoyed discussing my experiences in the operating room and our collaboration in surgery.”
Surgical Assistance
“In heart surgery, time is of the essence. If the controls don’t fit properly, it costs seconds – and those seconds can be crucial.”
Cardiac Technician
“For me, patient care starts with choosing the right medical devices. It’s great to be able to contribute my work experience here.”
Michael S.
Critical Care Nurse
“My practical expertise is taken seriously—and ends up in the product.”
Specialist in Cardiology
Whether in usability engineering (MDR, IEC 62366-1) or human factors engineering (FDA, Applying Human Factors and Usability Engineering to Medical Devices) processes, we ensure that real users are involved in a targeted and transparent manner by recruiting medical professionals for usability testing and other usability engineering activities. This professional recruitment for medical professionals reduces your project risks and creates reliable results and planning security.
Avoids unrealistic test scenarios and misinterpretations.
Quick access to suitable users – even for complex projects.
No generic panels, but targeted medical professional recruiting.
Protection against MDR, FDA, and notified bodies.
Smooth implementation even with international setups.
Comparable results across countries and markets.
We integrate healthcare professionals into your usability tests quickly, accurately, and in compliance with regulations, thanks to direct access to qualified specialists and efficient appointment management. Thanks to our experience in usability engineering, we flexibly select the appropriate expertise (from assistant doctors to senior physicians), combining optimal cost efficiency with high professional quality.
Our existing HCP panel allows us to recruit typical profiles reliably, predictably, and with clear relief for your team.
We integrate qualified healthcare professionals into your study in a structured and flexible manner—from planning to completion.
We can manage the study professionally or implement it in partnership with your team.
We take care of the technology, recruitment, organization, and hosting so that you can focus on the relevant findings of your study.
We recruit and manage the right healthcare professionals for your study.
Efficient | Transparent | GDPR-compliant | Standard-compliant
Let us work together to find the right participants for your study.
In this FAQ, we answer the most important questions about our recruitment services, the process, and the specifics that are important for successful planning. This allows you to quickly find the information that is relevant to your decision.
Our recruitment of test subjects in medical technology can cover the following groups of people, among others:
– Doctors (various specialties),
– Nurses (ward, intensive care unit, operating room, anesthesia),
– MTRAs/radiology technologists,
– Midwives/obstetricians,
– Emergency medical services/emergency personnel,
– Therapists (depending on the product).
Optional:
– Technical hospital users (e.g., medical technology/clinical engineering).
For formative usability tests, summative usability evaluations, interviews, focus groups, context analyses, and remote and on-site tests in laboratories, clinics, or practices.
We work with you to define a screening profile (inclusion/exclusion criteria) and verify it using standardized screening questions, qualification certificates/experience queries, and plausibility checks.
Recruitment is an integral part of the usability engineering process (MDR/IEC 62366-1) because it ensures that the right user groups (e.g., physicians, nurses, MTRAs) are involved in formative and summative usability tests at the appropriate times. This allows use errors to be identified early on, use-related risks to be specifically examined, and traceability for documentation to be strengthened.
Recruitment is challenging because suitable participants must not only be suited to the medical role, but also to the specific context in which the product will be used (e.g., hospital vs. private practice, operating room vs. ward, level of experience, job profile). At the same time, medical professionals are very busy, often difficult to reach, and in many areas only available in small, specialized target groups. In addition, there are requirements for robust screening criteria, comprehensible inclusion and exclusion criteria, and clear documentation so that the results remain usable for regulatory purposes later on.
We derive recruitment directly from the defined user groups and usage scenarios in the usability engineering process. To do this, we create a structured recruitment profile with clear inclusion and exclusion criteria, appropriate screening questions, and a documented selection decision. This makes it clear why the recruited participants represent the target users. In addition, we ensure that consent, data protection (GDPR), and recruitment documentation are set up in such a way that they can be transferred to the usability documentation (e.g., formative or summative evaluation evidence).
By recruiting medical professionals, we mean the targeted acquisition of clinical users such as doctors, nurses, midwives, or surgical staff as participants for usability studies/usability tests on medical devices or medical software.
Yes. We take care of the entire recruitment process for usability studies/usability tests: target group definition, screening, contacting participants, scheduling, confirmation of participation, no-show management, and documentation (e.g., proof of participant eligibility).
Medical professional recruiting describes the structured recruitment of healthcare professionals (HCPs) for study purposes. In medical technology, this typically means recruiting clinical target groups that match the intended use, use environment, and user profiles—for formative or summative usability studies.
Recruiting healthcare professionals for usability studies usually involves: Selecting suitable roles (e.g., assistant physicians, specialists, nursing staff, surgical staff), screening for experience (device type, workflow, frequency, setting), checking relevant criteria (language, availability, exclusion criteria), clear scheduling and participation handling, compliance with data protection and study documentation requirements.
Yes. We recruit for: formative usability studies (iterative, exploratory), summative usability tests (validating, based on clear user profiles and critical tasks) according to the Human Factors & Usability Engineering Process.