Conformance SWOT

SWOT Analysis: Reviewed January 29, 2018 Status: Updated SWOT and Goals

Strengths

• People want guidance on implementation and conformance
• We have qualified team members
• We have experience with all the product lines
• We have real-hands-on experience in both implementation and testing

Weaknesses

• Limited resources to support domain work groups conformance initiatives
• Lack of awareness in other groups
• Low feedback on open work items

Opportunities

• FHIR
  • Applying conformance rules to applications
• Conformance WG = central group to collect information from real projects
• Modernize HL7 V2
  • Develop migration strategy to modernize V2
• Vocabulary conformance guidance
• Define and operationalize the role of a conformance facilitators (approach Project Services, through Project Scope Statements)

Threats

• FHIR
  • Conformance in FHIR is moving forward without Conformance WG participation
  • Implementors are not required to read base specification for FHIR and so are not aware of conformance constructs when using FHIR
• Duplication of efforts and inconsistent strategy in domain projects in regards conformance
• Lack of awareness of other groups (working on conformance specifications without notice)
  • Other committees do "their work" without any notification
  • Other committees do work, that should be done by Conformance WG

Goals

• More education, webinars?
• Create conformance alignment across all product lines (including terminology)
• Provide consistent common guidance and in-depth guidance for projects
• Create an FAQ for implementers (website)
• Get more people involved in the Conformance WG
• Engage with other work groups that are creating conformance guidance
• Clarify with TSC about our mission and responsibilities
• Assign conformance facilitator role to qualified individuals