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SWOT Analysis of Johns Hopkins
SWOT Analysis of Johns Hopkins
SWOT Analysis of Johns Hopkins
for clinical expertise
• Especially prominent in Ear, Nose and Oncology, Cardiology &
Throat, Geriatrics, Neurology and Heart Surgery, Diabetes &
Neurosurgery, Rheumatology, Urology,
and Rehabilitation medicine Endocrinology,
• Referral and epidemiological center for Nephrology, Gynecology,
Baltimore/Washington metropolitan
area
Orthopedics and
• Well-entrenched government contractor Pulmonology
for overseas social marketing and 2) Relatively poor coverage of
epidemiological campaigns
• Very strong as a teaching and research- disadvantaged patients.
oriented hospital
OPPORTUNITIES THREATS
1) PACS still relatively scarce but would 1) Federal regulations of 2011 and
advance ideal of completely filmless
data acquisition, sorting, transport,
2012 put caps and non-usage
storage, retrieval and display. penalties on Medicare and
2) Paves the way for more widespread use Medicaid payments
of tablet PCs and wireless terminals 2) Cost-benefit ratio of PACS
3) Optimal compliance with regulatory
and insurer EHR requirements remains questionable.