A Rubric to Guide the Design, Development and Assessment of Mobile Clinical Decision Support Systems

<p dir="ltr">Clinical decision making is vital for healthcare provision. Shortcomings in clinical decision making can lead to poor healthcare outcomes and/or significant costs. Thus, sound clinical decision support systems (CDSSs) have become crucial for healthcare delivery today. However, an approach to systematically design, develop, and assess CDSSs so that they can provide superior support for clinical care is lacking. Motivated by this gap, this research aims to answer the question: "How might mobile clinical decision support systems be designed and developed to be of superior fit for purpose?" Furthermore, this research aims to develop a rubric to guide the design, development and assessment of mobile CDSSs. This rubric combines socio-technological factors relating to CDSS technologies and principles of decision-making. Thereby, this rubric attempts to guide technology designers to develop CDSS solutions that are of superior fit for purpose according to a tailored task technology fit assessment criterion. </p>