Requirements for a personal decision support system: An investigation of the requirements for a personal decision support system for choosing among health care financing alternatives considered from a diffusion of innovations perspectives

Drawing from the Diffusion of Innovation research tradition, this study investigates the requirements for a Personal Decision Support System for selection among a set of health care financing or insurance options available to the individual. Using the health care insurance decision commonly required of many citizens of the U.S.A. as the focus of study, the study characterizes the requirements as generalized meta-requirements applicable to many systems and functional requirements applicable to a system of a particular type. The argument is also presented that Decision Support Systems used for personal decisions represent a rather specialised case of DSS. This specialised case is characterised as Personal Decision Support Systems or PDSS