MHWG SWOT Analysis

SWOT

Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats for Mobile Health Work Group (MHWG)

• Reviewed by Mobile Health Workgroup on March 23, 2013.
• Approved by Mobile Health Workgroup (Pending vote April 5, 2013).

Strengths

• Deep knowledge of standards development
• Expertise in related standards (e.g., EHR, PHR, Child EHR, FHIR)
• Expertise in Health IT research and development
• Expertise in communication technologies
• Strong relationships and collaboration with existing standards working groups
• Strong experience in Health IT policy and Informatics.
• Strong experience in Low and Middle Income Countries (LMIC).
• Strong experience in risk and regulatory policy requirements.

Weaknesses

• Pace of established projects
• Domain is broad with extensive cross-over, i.e. with Personal Health Record (PHR), Telemedicine and medical devices
• Group is made up of working professionals with high demands on time
• Goals and objectives not yet broadly known across the HL7 community
• More extensive international representation

Opportunities

• Growth in mobile health is in a major period of research and development
• Domain that impacts a wide range of stakeholders including public health, providers, consumers, etc.
• Many related standards to build from
• Identified as a domain of high need for disparate/underserved health communities and regions i.e. LMIC subgroups
• Horizontal nature of mobile health; more than personal health
• Collaboration with other Mobile Health organizations.
• Rapid change and continued evolution of mobile technology.

Threats

• Lack of distinction between other domains (EHR, PHR, etc) other than wireless status
• Technology and infrastructure is continuously changing
• Privacy and Security (Confidentiality, Integrity and Availability) concerns
• Trusted use and management of BYOD in organization
• Rapid change and continued evolution of mobile technology.
• Pace of developments and continued evolution of mobile technology.
• Gap in stakeholders coverage missing
• Upcoming government regulation impacting Mobile health standards.