Table 1 What does a Behavioral Economics Lens offer to IS?

Focus and key assumptions

Multi-level approaches for Improving adoption and integration of evidence-based practices into real world settings [5] with an emphasis on individual behavior change and decision making within organizational constraints

Designing for human behavior and clinician decision-making based on the principle that humans have bounded rationality

Research methods

Qualitative and quantitative research methods to improve implementation

Offering additional methods including pre-mortems (prospectively leveraging the power of hindsight bias)[45] and behavioral design (explicitly mapping out conscious and unconscious behavioral barriers and designing for those barriers)

Approach to context

Focus on multi-level contexts[60,61,62]

Particular emphasis on how choice architecture impacts individual-level decision-making [55]

Starting point

Generally begins with comprehensive and intensive implementation strategies as standard

Starts with low cost and scalable solutions and layering on more resource-intensive approaches as required

Strategies to behaviour change

Increasingly matching implementation strategies to barriers identified by participants [63]

Designing choice architecture that makes evidence-based practices the default or makes them salient, creates competition, or makes the evidence-based practice easier, attractive, social, or timely – and by accounting for barriers that might arise due to heuristics and biases