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2.21 2.1.24 Community and Credits

Responsible Owner: FHIR Management Group Maturity Level : N/A Work Group

Standards Status : Informative

2.21.1 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 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 - IM based 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 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 .

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.

2.21.2 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 contributers: contributors:

• Key Contributors and Editors:
  • James Agnew 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 Telstra Health)
  • Bryn Rhodes (Smile; formerly University Health Network) Database Consulting Group)
  • Carmela Couderc (ASTP/ONC)
  • Chris Cioffi
  • Chris Moesel
  • Cooper Thompson (Epic)
  • Craig Newman (Northrop Grumman)
  • Davera Gabriel (Evidentli)
  • David Barwin
  • David Booth (DBooth)
  • Yishen Chen (University of Illinois) David deRoode
  • Chris Courville (Epic) David Otasek (Smile)
  • Bo Dagnall (HP) David Pyke (PointClickCare)
  • Richard Ettema (Aegis) Elliot Silver (Argentix Informatics)
  • Julie Evans (Samvit Solutions) Eric Haas (Health eData)
  • Rick Geimer (Lantana) Ewout Kramer (Firely)
  • Gay Dolin
  • Gino Canessa (Microsoft)
  • Grahame Grieve (Health Intersections)
  • Eric Haas (Health eData) Hugh Glover (Blue Wave)
  • Rob Hausam (Hausam Consulting) James Agnew (Smile; formerly University Health Network)
  • David Hay (Orion Jean-Henri Duteau (Dogwood Health)
  • Simone Heckmann (Gefyra) Jens Villadsen
  • Alexander Henket (NICTIZ) Jess Bota (Apelon)
  • Tony Julian (Mayo Clinic) Jessica Bota
  • Paul Knapp (Knapp Consulting) John David Nolen (Children's Mercy)
  • Ewout Kramer (Furore) John Moehrke (Moehrke Research)
  • Brett Marquard (River Rock Associates) Jonathan Whitby
  • Lloyd McKenzie (Gevity Consulting) Jose Costa Teixeira (Path-Digital Square / Zeora)
  • Josh Mandel (Microsoft; formerly Verily)
  • John Moehrke (By Light) Kevin Power (Children's Mercy; formerly Cerner)
  • Michelle M Miller (Cerner) Khalid Shahin (Computable Publishing)
  • Craig Newman (Northrop Grumman) Lloyd McKenzie (Dogwood Health; formerly Gevity Consulting)
  • Viet Nguyen (Leidos) Lorraine Constable
  • Vadim Peretokin (Firely) Marc Duteau (Duteau Design)
  • Mark Iantorno (Smile)
  • Marti Velezis (Sonrisa Consulting)
  • Melva Peters (Jenaker Consulting; formerly Gevity Consulting)
  • Brian Postlethwaite (Telstra Health) Michael Donnelly (Epic)
  • Kevin Power (Cerner) Michael Lawley (Csiro)
  • Bryn Rhodes (Database Consulting Group) Michael van der Zel
  • Chris Schuler (Database Consulting Group) Michelle M Miller (Optum; formerly Cerner)
  • Harold Solbrig (Mayo Clinic) Mohammad Jafari (U.S. Dept. Veterans Affairs)
  • Patrick Werner (MOLIT Institute)
  • Paul Knapp (Knapp Consulting)
  • Peter Jordan
  • Reinhard Egelkraut (ComuGroup Medical)
  • Reuben Daniels (Saludax)
  • Richard Ettema (AEGIS)
  • Rick Geimer (Lantana)
  • Rik Smithies (NProgram)
  • Andy Stechishin (CANA Software & Services Ltd) Riki Merrick
  • Cooper Thompson Rob Hausam (Hausam Consulting)
  • Robert McClure
  • Rosemary Hofstede (Duteau Design)
  • Rutt Lindström
  • Sean McIlvenna (Lantana)
  • Simone Heckmann (Gefyra)
  • Tony Julian (Mayo Clinic)
  • Vadim Peretokin (Philips)
  • Vassil Peytchev (Epic)
  • Jose Costa Tiexiera (Equip-med) Viet Nguyen
  • Jason Walonoski (Mitre) Ward Weistra (Firely)
  • Patrick Werner (MOLIT Institut) Yanick Gaudet
  • Yunwei Wang (Mitre)
• In addition, the editors and contributors thank the following individuals for key past contributions: Lorraine Constable, Jean-Henri Duteau, Hugh Glover, Yishen Chen, Chris Courville, Bo Dagnall, Julie Evans, David Hay, Patrick Loyd, Joginder Madra, Claude Nanjo, Chris Nickerson 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 Wayne Kubick. (Former members: 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 and Emergency Response , Pharmacy , Structured Documents , Security , US Realm Taskforce , Vocabulary 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.