Release 4

Maturity Level: N/AStandards Status: Informative

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 FHIR community gathers, meets, or communicates using the following infrastructure, provided by HL7 directly, or by the HL7 FHIR Foundation :

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 .

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 contributers: