 Wide knowledge base and breadth of pediatric clinical expertise
 Ability to identify areas of need in pediatric HIT
 Basic understanding of HL7 artifacts among members
 Strong pediatric clinical leadership
 Membership and leadership includes actively practicing clinicians
 Clinical knowledge paired with informatics expertise
 Strong emphasis in pediatric issues
 Representation of hospital directors of pediatric health IT (e.g. CMIOs, etc)
 Busy schedules of volunteer work group members
 Limited external interest outside of immediate project team
 Inability to get critical mass of members on a regular conference call; time zone challenges
 Gaps in the clinical spectrum of pediatrics
 Lack of pediatric ambulatory representation; most kids are seen in the ambulatory setting
 Lack of hospital technical IT representation
 Limited bandwidth and expertise for administrative aspects of managing the work group
 Gather interest via American Academy of Pediatrics COCIT members
 Creating pediatric-relevant profiles for FHIR
 HL7 members willing to give us education about standards-creation process
 Connections to large children's hospital systems with active IT projects
 Connections with vendors of inpatient and ambulatory systems
 Connections with practices and hospitals to support and implement work
 Ability to impact future development of tools uniquely designed to work for pediatric healthcare
 Be a recognized expert panel/group on pediatric issues in technology
 Access to institutional HL7 experts (i.e., those working with HL7 directly among hospitals)
 Access to marketing channels (HL7, AAP, CHA, etc …) for promoting efforts
 Access to experts from other HL7 work groups willing to involve us in project work
 Contact with pediatric subspecialty groups
 Complexity of subject matter stretches volunteers beyond reasonable time commitments (e.g., vocabulary project)
 Limited participation at face-to-face meetings
 Loss of funding and support for travel among WG chairs could dissolve the WG
 Lack of regulatory authority to implement/execute recommendations