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## Community and Credits

| Responsible Owner: [FHIR Management Group](http://www.hl7.org/Special/committees/fmg/index.cfm) Work Group | [Standards Status](versions#std-process): [Informative](versions#std-process) |
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### Community

The FHIR community meets under the umbrella [HL7](http://hl7.org) 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](license) and the community relies on HL7-provided infrastructure. The community has a [Code of Conduct](http://www.hl7.org/legal/code-of-conduct.cfm) 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](http://fhir.org):

-   [http://chat.fhir.org](http://chat.fhir.org) - instant messaging-based FHIR support forum (Zulip!)
-   the [FHIR issue tracker](http://hl7.org/fhir-issues) for change requests and task management
-   [HL7 Confluence](https://confluence.hl7.org/display/FHIR) - recording informal documentation in support of the community
-   and [GitHub](http://github.com/hl7/fhir) - source control

In addition, the community holds regular [connectathons](http://hl7.org/events/fhir-connectathon/) and meetings as part of the [HL7 Working Group meetings](http://hl7.org/events/workgroupmeetings.cfm). The formal governance arrangements that manage FHIR development are documented on HL7's [Confluence site](https://confluence.hl7.org/display/FHIR/Governance+Process).

HL7 and the FHIR Community wish to thank the [United States Office of the Assistant Secretary of Health (Technology and Policy)](https://www.healthit.gov) for their extensive support to the FHIR community for many years, and also to thank [Google](https://about.google) and the [Zulip team](https://zulip.com) for providing the cloud infrastructure the FHIR community uses.

### 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., Social Media) / Question answerers

Of particular note as contributors:

-   Key Contributors and Editors:
    -   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 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)
    -   David deRoode
    -   David Otasek (Smile)
    -   David Pyke (PointClickCare)
    -   Elliot Silver (Argentix Informatics)
    -   Eric Haas (Health eData)
    -   Ewout Kramer (Firely)
    -   Gay Dolin
    -   Gino Canessa (Microsoft)
    -   Grahame Grieve (Health Intersections)
    -   Hugh Glover (Blue Wave)
    -   James Agnew (Smile; formerly University Health Network)
    -   Jean-Henri Duteau (Dogwood Health)
    -   Jens Villadsen
    -   Jess Bota (Apelon)
    -   Jessica Bota
    -   John David Nolen (Children's Mercy)
    -   John Moehrke (Moehrke Research)
    -   Jonathan Whitby
    -   Jose Costa Teixeira (Path-Digital Square / Zeora)
    -   Josh Mandel (Microsoft; formerly Verily)
    -   Kevin Power (Children's Mercy; formerly Cerner)
    -   Khalid Shahin (Computable Publishing)
    -   Lloyd McKenzie (Dogwood Health; formerly Gevity Consulting)
    -   Lorraine Constable
    -   Marc Duteau (Duteau Design)
    -   Mark Iantorno (Smile)
    -   Marti Velezis (Sonrisa Consulting)
    -   Melva Peters (Jenaker Consulting; formerly Gevity Consulting)
    -   Michael Donnelly (Epic)
    -   Michael Lawley (Csiro)
    -   Michael van der Zel
    -   Michelle M Miller (Optum; formerly Cerner)
    -   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)
    -   Riki Merrick
    -   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)
    -   Viet Nguyen
    -   Ward Weistra (Firely)
    -   Yanick Gaudet
    -   Yunwei Wang (Mitre)
-   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](https://confluence.hl7.org/display/FHIR/FHIR+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)
-   The FHIR specification includes content developed by or reviewed by the following [HL7 Work Groups](http://www.hl7.org/Special/committees/index.cfm):  
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-   In addition, some resources were developed in coordination with the following organizations: [DICOM](http://medical.nema.org/standard.html), [IHE](http://www.ihe.net), [LOINC](http://loinc.org), [SNOMED Intl](https://www.snomed.org/),
-   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](http://www.studiojoyo.com) - thanks
-   **THANK YOU ALL!** - without the support and effort of this community, FHIR would not exist.

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