Table III.

 SWOT Analysis on the Future of O’QUIN

Strengths	Weaknesses	Opportunities	Threats
Strong medical director	Diverse EHRS	Interprofessional collaboration leads to creative new ideas	Lack of funding
Trust in MUSC team	Practices that lack training in their EHRSs	New expansion beyond CVD	Rapidly evolving practice landscape: EHRSs, HIE, reimbursement, physician champion leaves a practice, new policies, new players in state/region who do not understand the state or practices
Growing number of practices	Practice IT lack time or interest in database	Add more practices	Not delivering on promises
Practices interested in quality improvement	Poor bandwidth in rural areas	Clinical trials conducted in network
Evidence of success	Growing volume of work	New technology leading to HIE and efficiency
Growing interest at MUSC in O’QUIN	Need for more funding	Comparative Effectiveness Research
Strong/unique IT program	Ongoing changes in practice personnel requiring orientations	Growing interest in PBRNs in United States
Business Associate Agreement	Medical director essential to success of network
	Change in laboratory results in missing data
	Some PCPs tired and burned‐out

Abbreviations: CVD, cardiovascular disease; EHRS, electronic health record system; HIE, health information exchange; IT, information technology; MUSC, Medical University of South Carolina; O’QUIN, Outpatient Quality Improvement Network; PBRNs, practice‐based research networks; PCP, primary care physicians; QI, quality improvement; SWOT, Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats.