AID SWOT

SWOT

Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats for the RIMBAA WG

Strengths

• Active members with actual experience of v3 implementations
• Active members with a passion for health information technology
• Deep understanding of RIM and Methodology

Weaknesses

• Inbalance in ability to share information due to Intellectual Property issues
• Quite a few active contributors to the deliverables don't take part in WGMs (those are too much geared towards standards developers)
• Doesn't "quite fit" with most other ongoing HL7 activities - it doesn't produce standards.

Opportunities

• Has the ability to show the power of v3 well beyond that of "messaging"
• Shows value of Enterprise Architecture Framework (SAIF)
• Has the capability to ease implementations of v3 (best practices, reference implementation)

Threats

• Stifling effect of Intellectual Property issues
• Irrelevance of RIMBAA in the eyes of some: the "We have too much legacy stuff to care about RIMBAA" argument
• RIMBAA not seen as an active WG because few implementers attend WGMs.
• Risk that commercial parties use the WG as a marketing platform for tools.