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2.21 Community and Credits

2.21.1 Community

The FHIR community meets as part of the wider HL7 community and draws on its extensive human resources, institutional memory, previous standards and corporate support. HL7 itself owns FHIR and makes it freely available and the community relies on HL7-provided infrastructure.

The FHIR community gathers, meets, or communicates using the following infrastructure, provided by HL7 directly, or by the HL7 FHIR Foundation :

• http://chat.fhir.org - IM based FHIR support forum
• the FHIR issue tracker for task management
• http://community.fhir.org - general FHIR support forum
• the FHIR email list for general FHIR standards business
• HL7 Confluence : for recording informal documentation in support of the community
• and GitHub for source control

In addition, the community holds regular face to face connectathons and meetings as part of the HL7 Working Group meetings . The formal governance arrangements that manage FHIR development are documented on HL7's Confluence site .

2.21.2 Credits

FHIR is a specification produced by the HL7 Community. Many individuals and organizations (1000s) contribute to the FHIR specification through many roles:

• Balloters / QA reviewers
• Testers / Implementers who give feedback or help others
• Editors / Committee Co-chairs / Minute keepers
• Secretariat: Process support / ANSI compliance
• Regulators / Advocates (e.g. Social Media) / Question answerers

Of particular note as contributers:

• Contributors and Editors:
  • James Agnew (Smile; formerly University Health Network)
  • David Booth (DBooth)
  • Yishen Chen (University of Illinois)
  • Chris Courville (Epic)
  • Bo Dagnall (HP)
  • Richard Ettema (Aegis)
  • Julie Evans (Samvit Solutions)
  • Rick Geimer (Lantana)
  • Grahame Grieve (Health Intersections)
  • Eric Haas (Health eData)
  • Rob Hausam (Hausam Consulting)
  • David Hay (Orion Health)
  • Simone Heckmann (Gefyra)
  • Alexander Henket (NICTIZ)
  • Tony Julian (Mayo Clinic)
  • Paul Knapp (Knapp Consulting)
  • Ewout Kramer (Furore)
  • Brett Marquard (River Rock Associates)
  • Lloyd McKenzie (Gevity Consulting)
  • Josh Mandel (Microsoft; formerly Verily)
  • John Moehrke (By Light)
  • Michelle M Miller (Cerner)
  • Craig Newman (Northrop Grumman)
  • Viet Nguyen (Leidos)
  • Vadim Peretokin (Firely)
  • Melva Peters (Jenaker Consulting; formerly Gevity Consulting)
  • Brian Postlethwaite (Telstra Health)
  • Kevin Power (Cerner)
  • Bryn Rhodes (Database Consulting Group)
  • Chris Schuler (Database Consulting Group)
  • Harold Solbrig (Mayo Clinic)
  • Rik Smithies (NProgram)
  • Andy Stechishin (CANA Software & Services Ltd)
  • Cooper Thompson (Epic)
  • Jose Costa Tiexiera (Equip-med)
  • Jason Walonoski (Mitre)
  • Patrick Werner (MOLIT Institut)
• In addition, the editors and contributors thank the following individuals for key past contributions: Lorraine Constable, Jean-Henri Duteau, Hugh Glover, Patrick Loyd, Joginder Madra, Claude Nanjo, Chris Nickerson
• The Management group is Hans Buitendijk, Grahame Grieve, David Hay, Paul Knapp, Josh Mandel, Lloyd McKenzie, John Moehrke, Brian Pech, Brian Postlethwaite and Wayne Kubick. (Former members: Woody Beeler, Lorraine Constable, Jean Duteau, Hugh Glover, Ron Parker and John Quinn)
• The FHIR specification includes content developed by or reviewed by the following HL7 Work Groups :
  Application Implementation and Design , Biomedical Research and Regulation , Community Based Collaborative Care , Clinical Decision Support , Clinical Genomics , Clinical Quality Information , Health Care Devices , Electronic Health Records , FHIR Infrastructure , Financial Management , Health Standards Integration , Imaging Integration , Infrastructure And Messaging , Implementable Technology Specifications , Modeling and Methodology , Orders and Observations , Patient Administration , Patient Care , Public Health and Emergency Response , Pharmacy , Structured Documents , Security , US Realm Taskforce , Vocabulary
• In addition, some resources were developed in coordination with the following organizations: DICOM , IHE , LOINC , SNOMED Intl ,
• Innumerable others have assisted through participation in formal QA, submission of ballot comments, discussions on the old Implementer's Skype chat, http://chat.fhir.org, the FHIR list server, participation at HL7 Working Group Meetings and through submission of change requests
• The basic HTML design done by studiojoyo.com - thanks
• THANK YOU ALL! - without the support and effort of this community, FHIR would not exist.