This page is part of the FHIR Specification (v4.5.0: R5 Preview #3). The current version which supercedes this version is 5.0.0. For a full list of available versions, see the Directory of published versions . Page versions: R5R4BR4R3R2
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 :
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)
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)
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