FHIR DSTU2 is published

Sep 22, 2015

The FHIR team is pleased to announce that FHIR DSTU is now published at http://hl7.org/fhir. The 2nd DSTU is an extensive rewrite of all parts of the specification. Some of the highlights this version accomplishes: * Simplifies the RESTful API

  • Extends search and versioning significantly
  • Increases the power and reach of the conformance resources and tools
  • Defines a terminology service
  • Broadens functionality to cover new clinical, administrative and financial areas
  • Incorporates thousands of changes in existing areas in response to trial use

As part of publishing this version, we have invested heavily in the quality of the process and the specification, and the overall consistency is much improved. A full list of changes to the FHIR standard can be found at http://hl7.org/fhir/history.html#history.

In addition, DSTU2 is published along with several US-realm specific implementations developed in association with the ONC: DAF, SDC, and QICore.

This release has involved an astounding amount of work from the editorial team, which, in addition to me, includes:

  • Lloyd McKenzie
  • Brian Postlethwaite
  • Eric Haas
  • Jason Matthews
  • Mark Kramer
  • Paul Knapp
  • Brett Marquard
  • Ewout Kramer
  • Richard Etterna
  • Claude Nanjo
  • James Agnew
  • Josh Mandel
  • John Moerhke
  • Nagesh (Dragon) Bashyam
  • Alexander Henket
  • Chris Moesel
  • Marc Hadley
  • Rob Hausam
  • Bryn Rhodes
  • Nathan Davis
  • Jason Walonoski
  • Rik Smithies
  • Molly Ullman-Cullere
  • Chris Nickerson
  • Jean Duteau
  • Chi Tran
  • David Hay
  • Tom Lukasik
  • Hugh Glover
  • Chris Millet
  • Fabien Laurent
  • Marla Albitiz
  • Richard Kavanagh
  • Brad Arndt
  • Brett Esler
  • Chris White
  • Jay Lyle
  • Eric Larson
  • Lorraine Constable
  • Ken Rubin

In addition, to this, the HL7 leadership, the wider HL7 community and the wider FHIR Adoption community have all made significant and massive contributions. Additional contributers are recognised in the specification.

Note: there is still much to be done; this is the first full DSTU release, and it will get a lot of use. I’ll make a series of follow up posts describing some of the significant aspects of this release, and our overall plans going forward, over the next couple of weeks