This page is part of the FHIR Specification (v5.0.0: R5 - STU). This is the current published version in it's permanent home (it will always be available at this URL). 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 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 :
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)
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)
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