The FHIR community meets under the umbrella HL7 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 through 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
In addition, the editors and contributors thank the following individuals for key past contributions: Yishen Chen, Chris Courville, Bo Dagnall, Julie Evans, David Hay, Patrick Loyd, Joginder Madra, Claude Nanjo, Chris Nickerson, Chris Schuler, Harold Solbrig, Andy Stechishin, Jason Walonoski
The Management group is Sarah Gaunt, Bryn Rhodes, Daniel Vreeman, Jeff Brown, Gino Canessa, Gay Dolin, Grahame Grieve, Robert Hausam, Ewout Kramer, Lloyd McKenzie, Ward Weistra (Former members: Brian Pech, Brian Postlethwaite, David Hay, Hans Buitendijk, Hugh Glover, Jean Duteau, John Moehrke, John Quinn Josh Mandel, Lorraine Constable, Paul Knapp, Ron Parker, Wayne Kubick and Woody Beeler)
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