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2.1.24 Community and Credits

FHIR Management Group Work Group

Maturity Level: N/A

Standards Status: Informative

2.1.24.1 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 community has a Code of Conduct that all participants are expected to adhere to.

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

In addition, the community holds regular 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 .

2.1.24.2 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 contributors:

• Contributors and Editors:
  • James Agnew (Smile; formerly University Health Network)
  • David Booth (DBooth)
  • Jess Bota (Apelon)
  • Gino Canessa (Microsoft)
  • Reuben Daniels (Saludax)
  • Michael Donnelly (Epic)
  • Jean-Henri Duteau (Dogwood Health)
  • Marc Duteau (Duteau Design)
  • Reinhard Egelkraut (ComuGroup Medical)
  • Richard Ettema (AEGIS)
  • Benjamin Flessner (Redox)
  • Rick Geimer (Lantana)
  • Hugh Glover (Blue Wave)
  • Grahame Grieve (Health Intersections)
  • Eric Haas (Health eData)
  • Rob Hausam (Hausam Consulting)
  • Bret Heale (Elimu)
  • Simone Heckmann (Gefyra)
  • Alexander Henket (NICTIZ)
  • Bas van den Heuvel (Philips)
  • Rosemary Hofstede (Duteau Design)
  • Mark Iantorno (Smile)
  • Mohammad Jafari (U.S. Dept. Veterans Affairs)
  • Tony Julian (Mayo Clinic)
  • Aly Khalifa (University of Utah)
  • Paul Knapp (Knapp Consulting)
  • Michael Lawley (Csiro)
  • Lloyd McKenzie (Dogwood Health; formerly Gevity Consulting)
  • Josh Mandel (Microsoft; formerly Verily)
  • Sean McIlvenna (Lantana)
  • John Moehrke (By Light)
  • Michelle M Miller (Optum; formerly Cerner)
  • Craig Newman (Northrop Grumman)
  • John David Nolen (Children's Mercy)
  • David Otasek (Smile)
  • Vadim Peretokin (Philips)
  • Melva Peters (Jenaker Consulting; formerly Gevity Consulting)
  • Vassil Peytchev (Epic)
  • Brian Postlethwaite (Microsoft; formerly Telstra Health)
  • Kevin Power (Children's Mercy; formerly Cerner)
  • David Pyke (PointClickCare)
  • Abdullah Rafiqi (ICF)
  • Bryn Rhodes (Smile; formerly Database Consulting Group)
  • Khalid Shahin (Computable Publishing)
  • Elliot Silver (Argentix Informatics)
  • Rik Smithies (NProgram)
  • Cooper Thompson (Epic)
  • Jose Costa Teixeira (Path-Digital Square / Zeora)
  • Gaurav Vaidya
  • Marti Velezis (Sonrisa Consulting)
  • Yunwei Wang (Mitre)
  • Ward Weistra (Firely)
  • Patrick Werner (MOLIT Institute)
  • Alexander Zautke (Firely)
• In addition, the editors and contributors thank the following individuals for key past contributions: Yishen Chen, Lorraine Constable, Chris Courville, Bo Dagnall, Julie Evans, David Hay, Ewout Kramer, Patrick Loyd, Joginder Madra, Brett Marquard, Claude Nanjo, Viet Nguyen, Chris Nickerson, Chris Schuler, Harold Solbrig, Andy Stechishin, Jason Walonoski
• The Management group is Hans Buitendijk, Grahame Grieve, David Hay, Paul Knapp, Josh Mandel, Lloyd McKenzie, John Moehrke, Brian Pech, Brian Postlethwaite and Daniel Vreeman. (Former members: Wayne Kubick, 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 , Patient Empowerment , Public Health , Pharmacy , Structured Documents , Security , US Realm Taskforce , Terminology Infrastructure
• 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.