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2.1.24 Community and Credits

Maturity Level : N/A

Responsible Owner: FHIR Management Group Work Group

Standards Status : Informative

2.1.24.1 Community

The FHIR community meets as part of under the wider umbrella HL7 community and draws on its extensive human resources, institutional memory, previous standards, international affiliates, and corporate and government 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 through the HL7 FHIR Foundation :

• http://chat.fhir.org - instant messaging-based FHIR support forum (Zulip!)
• 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 .

HL7 and the FHIR Community wish to thank the United States Office of the Assistant Secretary of Health (Technology and Policy) for their extensive support to the FHIR community for many years, and also to thank Google and the Zulip team for providing the cloud infrastructure the FHIR community uses.

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
• Tooling providers - servers, validators, code generators, IG infrastructure
• Editors / Committee Co-chairs / Minute keepers
• Secretariat: Process support / ANSI compliance
• Regulators / Advocates (e.g. (e.g., Social Media) / Question answerers

Of particular note as contributors:

• Key Contributors and Editors:
  • James Agnew (Smile; Alexander Henket (NICTIZ)
  • Alexander Zautke (Firely)
  • Aly Khalifa (University of Utah)
  • Bas van den Heuvel (Philips)
  • Benjamin Flessner (Redox)
  • Bret Heale (Elimu)
  • Brett Marquard
  • Brian Alper
  • Brian Postlethwaite (Microsoft; formerly University Health Network) Telstra Health)
  • David Booth (DBooth) Bryn Rhodes (Smile; formerly Database Consulting Group)
  • Jess Bota (Apelon) Carmela Couderc (ASTP/ONC)
  • Gino Canessa (Microsoft) Chris Cioffi
  • Reuben Daniels (Saludax) Chris Moesel
  • Michael Donnelly Cooper Thompson (Epic)
  • Jean-Henri Duteau (Dogwood Health) Craig Newman (Northrop Grumman)
  • Marc Duteau (Duteau Design) Davera Gabriel (Evidentli)
  • Reinhard Egelkraut (ComuGroup Medical) David Barwin
  • Richard Ettema (AEGIS) David Booth (DBooth)
  • Benjamin Flessner (Redox) David deRoode
  • Rick Geimer (Lantana) David Otasek (Smile)
  • Hugh Glover (Blue Wave) David Pyke (PointClickCare)
  • Grahame Grieve (Health Intersections) Elliot Silver (Argentix Informatics)
  • Eric Haas (Health eData)
  • Rob Hausam (Hausam Consulting) Ewout Kramer (Firely)
  • Bret Heale (Elimu) Gay Dolin
  • Simone Heckmann (Gefyra) Gino Canessa (Microsoft)
  • Alexander Henket (NICTIZ) Grahame Grieve (Health Intersections)
  • Bas van den Heuvel (Philips) Hugh Glover (Blue Wave)
  • Rosemary Hofstede (Duteau Design) James Agnew (Smile; formerly University Health Network)
  • Mark Iantorno (Smile) Jean-Henri Duteau (Dogwood Health)
  • Mohammad Jafari (U.S. Dept. Veterans Affairs) Jens Villadsen
  • Tony Julian (Mayo Clinic) Jess Bota (Apelon)
  • Aly Khalifa (University of Utah) Jessica Bota
  • Paul Knapp (Knapp Consulting) John David Nolen (Children's Mercy)
  • Michael Lawley (Csiro) John Moehrke (Moehrke Research)
  • Lloyd McKenzie (Dogwood Health; formerly Gevity Consulting) Jonathan Whitby
  • Jose Costa Teixeira (Path-Digital Square / Zeora)
  • Josh Mandel (Microsoft; formerly Verily)
  • Sean McIlvenna (Lantana) Kevin Power (Children's Mercy; formerly Cerner)
  • John Moehrke (By Light) Khalid Shahin (Computable Publishing)
  • Michelle M Miller (Optum; Lloyd McKenzie (Dogwood Health; formerly Cerner) Gevity Consulting)
  • Craig Newman (Northrop Grumman) Lorraine Constable
  • John David Nolen (Children's Mercy) Marc Duteau (Duteau Design)
  • David Otasek Mark Iantorno (Smile)
  • Vadim Peretokin (Philips) Marti Velezis (Sonrisa Consulting)
  • Melva Peters (Jenaker Consulting; formerly Gevity Consulting)
  • Vassil Peytchev Michael Donnelly (Epic)
  • Brian Postlethwaite (Microsoft; formerly Telstra Health) Michael Lawley (Csiro)
  • Kevin Power (Children's Mercy; Michael van der Zel
  • Michelle M Miller (Optum; formerly Cerner)
  • David Pyke (PointClickCare) Mohammad Jafari (U.S. Dept. Veterans Affairs)
  • Abdullah Rafiqi (ICF) Patrick Werner (MOLIT Institute)
  • Bryn Rhodes (Smile; formerly Database Consulting Group) Paul Knapp (Knapp Consulting)
  • Khalid Shahin (Computable Publishing) Peter Jordan
  • Elliot Silver (Argentix Informatics) Reinhard Egelkraut (ComuGroup Medical)
  • Reuben Daniels (Saludax)
  • Richard Ettema (AEGIS)
  • Rick Geimer (Lantana)
  • Rik Smithies (NProgram)
  • Cooper Thompson (Epic) Riki Merrick
  • Jose Costa Teixeira (Path-Digital Square / Zeora) Rob Hausam (Hausam Consulting)
  • Gaurav Vaidya Robert McClure
  • Marti Velezis (Sonrisa Consulting) Rosemary Hofstede (Duteau Design)
  • Yunwei Wang (Mitre) Rutt Lindström
  • Sean McIlvenna (Lantana)
  • Simone Heckmann (Gefyra)
  • Tony Julian (Mayo Clinic)
  • Vadim Peretokin (Philips)
  • Vassil Peytchev (Epic)
  • Viet Nguyen
  • Ward Weistra (Firely)
  • Patrick Werner (MOLIT Institute) Yanick Gaudet
  • Alexander Zautke (Firely) Yunwei Wang (Mitre)
• 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, Sarah Gaunt, Bryn Rhodes, Daniel Vreeman, Jeff Brown, Gino Canessa, Gay Dolin, Grahame Grieve, David Hay, Paul Knapp, Josh Mandel, Robert Hausam, Ewout Kramer, Lloyd McKenzie, John Moehrke, Ward Weistra (Former members: Brian Pech, Brian Postlethwaite and Daniel Vreeman. (Former members: Wayne Kubick, Woody Beeler, Lorraine Constable, Jean Duteau, Postlethwaite, David Hay, Hans Buitendijk, Hugh Glover, Jean Duteau, John Moehrke, John Quinn Josh Mandel, Lorraine Constable, Paul Knapp, Ron Parker Parker, Wayne Kubick and John Quinn) Woody Beeler)
• 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.