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Fhir Swot 2015-09-28
Fhir Swot 2015-09-28
Strengths
Significant implementer & vendor engagement & participation
Significant collaboration with other work groups
FHIR is well positioned in industry which reflects on this work group
Weaknesses
Dependency on other work groups for certain resources/pages
Highly dependent on volunteers
Limited resources/bandwidth – particularly in tooling/support space
Some knowledge, particularly development tools, is still too concentrated
Opportunities
Influence provided by popularity of the standard and influx of newcomers opens the possibility
to evolve how standards are developed
Increased engagement with external SDOs (IHE, NCPDP, WEDI, etc.)
Ability to improve state-of-the art in terms of IG publication – increase ease of
adoption/interoperability/QA
Bring new work into FHIR – CDS Hooks, FHIR Cast, others?
Threats
Not clear what our scope will be 3 years from now – limited opportunity for
profiles/implementation guides in our WG. What will make (useful) people keep coming?
WG may be target of large stakeholder groups who want to “steer” FHIR
Lots of external groups now using FHIR, external developments – what should come into FHIR-I?
We continue to get more complex/sophisticated – at what point does FHIR cease being easy to
use? E.g. profiles/profile hierarchies