Stream: implementers
Topic: community
Roy Cohen (Jul 26 2020 at 07:29):
Hi everyone - I work at the Israeli Ministy of Health. We're trying to promote the country's nascent FHIR community. We want to help direct healthcare organizations and industry people onto an effective platform, where projects could be discovered by entreprenurial people, knowledge could be exchanged and the initiative could gain traction.
We're coming up with several options - Simplifier, Confluence, and of course fhir.chat.org.
Can anyone help me understand how implementers use these channels differently?
Alexander Zautke (Jul 26 2020 at 08:15):
@Ward Weistra
Grahame Grieve (Jul 26 2020 at 12:18):
Confluence: documents our tools and processes, and our minutes and working ideas
chat.fhir.org: where we hang out and argue and discuss
Simplifier: Where we store our more formal designs, and work on them and publish them
You need all those functions, though these may not be the best choice for your particular context.
The thing that you very definitely need and isn't on your list is something like Jira to track your issues / work items
Lloyd McKenzie (Jul 26 2020 at 14:01):
chat.fhir.org is open to anyone - and we can set up country-specific streams for discussion that is relevant only to country-specific content. Simplifier has an agreement to host all HL7 international-developed content for free, but I believe you'd need a license to host your national content. We're exploring allowing HL7 affiliates the ability to use HL7's Jira tool for tracking issues related to national IGs, including balloting, but we haven't actually done so for anything other than U.S. IGs (which are a bit of an anomaly due to how HL7 works). The HL7 confluence site is read-only except to 'managers', but HL7 could grant access to an affiliate-specific 'space' to host national documentation.
Lloyd McKenzie (Jul 26 2020 at 14:02):
The other mechanisms we have for community support are regular conference calls (Zoom) and list serves (though most of the work that used to happen there has now migrated to chat.fhir.org for many work groups.
Lloyd McKenzie (Jul 26 2020 at 14:02):
Welcome! :)
Ward Weistra (Jul 27 2020 at 10:01):
Well put :thumbs_up: And a welcome too! @Roy Cohen I'll reach out to give you an overview of Simplifier.net.
Roy Cohen (Jul 27 2020 at 19:37):
Thank you everyone for your thoughtful responses. Scheduled a meeting with Ward, and will definitely keep looking for content and advice on this platform.
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