Mobile Clinical Decision Support Systems – A Systematic Review

In this review article, we provide a descriptive analysis of the current state of mobile decision support systems in the healthcare domain based on studies published in the following databases: Business Source Complete, CINAHL, Cochrane library, MEDLINE, PsycINFO, PubMed, ScienceDirect and Web of Science databases. A total of 29 studies were identified and analyzed to understand the current state of development, evaluation efforts, usability and challenges to adoption by patients and care providers. Our aim is to evaluate these systems and identify the key challenges which hinders their widespread adoption. Although, mobile based decision support systems in healthcare context have the potential to improve clinical decision making, the current state with low adoption rate and early stage of development need to be addressed for successful health outcomes

Adoption of an Authentication System: Is Security the Only Consideration?

Despite the development of novel authentication systems, organizations today, are much relying on traditional passwords as their main authentication method for employees’ access to their internal systems, and the adoption of a variety of alternatives has been slow. Taking a decision-making perspective, this study aims to bring new insights to the organizational adoption of novel authentication systems. Results indicate that usability, deployability and security, as innovation characteristics of authentication systems, increase decision makers’ intention to adopt an authentication scheme. Usability has the strongest effect. Further, for the organizations that are more IT-intensive, the effects of usability and security features on adoption intention are stronger

Organizations’ Proactive Information Security Behavior

Proactive information security management in organizations has been suggested to be an effective approach for preventing data breaches and security incidents. However, what motivates IT professionals to adopt such practices or behavior is not clear. Taking a prototype-willingness model perspective, this study aims to investigate how both rational and heuristic aspects of decision making can affect organizations’ proactive information security behavior. Further, it will assess the moderating role of dominant environmental characteristics on the effect of decision makers’ intention and willingness to pursue proactive information security behavior on the organizations’ actual behavior