TSC SWOT

• Strengths
  • Clear focus on delineated governance and management activities
  • Respected, committed, highly experienced membership
  • Support from HQ
  • Open, transparent, and responsive
  • Proactive

• Weaknesses
  • Limited time
  • Limited control over resources
  • Inconsistent support from Board and Working Groups
  • Lack of effective process for bringing in external proposed standards.
  • Lack of clear definition of the endorsement of external standards
  • Lack of linkage with HL7 Strategic Plan
  • Lack of coordination between T3SD WGs and HQ and other WGs
  • Change to intellectual property licensing has created inconsistent adherence to the intellectual property policy

• Opportunities
  • Business Architecture Model development offers improved Governance and Management to match existing Methodology strengths
  • Change to Intellectual Property licensing at no cost
  • Increased worldwide uptake (by transnational/regional programs)
  • Clearly designate our product line and product identification
  • Emergence of new and contemporary technology including FHIR and semantic web ontologies
  • Respond to new opportunities for increasing membership
  • Improve product quality

• Threats
  • Creating overheads without visible return
  • Failure to improve Product Quality
  • Lack of confidence in standards management creates vacuum for Profiler/Enforcer creating their own healthcare interoperability standards
  • Increasing numbers of mandates coming from the US Realm
  • Lack of clear relationship between user groups and work groups
  • Keeping up with increased uptake of our standards (e.g. FHIR)
  • Lack of adequate governance, management, curation and support processes to manage our standards and the resulting profiles that are created.
  • Lack of well-defined conformance and profiling methodologies for our standards

Approved by TSC 2015-10-03