The next person I'm going to be talking about is responsible for open source software that has impacted the lives of tens millions of patients (arguably even hundreds of millions), tens of thousands (perhaps even hundreds of thousands) of healthcare providers, and certainly thousands of developers around the world.
The sheer volume of commits in the projects he's led well exceeds 50 million lines of code. He's been working in the open source space for nearly a decade and a half, most of which has been supporting the work of the university hospital that employed him.
It's kind of difficult to tell a back story about him that doesn't give it completely away (and many who've used the work he's been driving already know who I'm talking about). I'm told he's an accomplished guitar player, and I also hear that his latest album of spoken word and beat poetry will be coming out soon.
I can honestly say I've used much of the open source code he's been driving forward at four different positions for three different employers, through at least eight different releases, and I swear by the quality of the work that goes into it. I'm not alone, the work has been downloaded or forked by several thousand developers all over the world.
I know that he sort of fell into this open source space a bit by accident as the person who had been driving one of the HL7 open source project moved on to greener pastures and he took up the reigns. Since then, he took the simplicity and usability of that open source project into a second one that has driven HL7 FHIR on towards greater heights. If it weren't for some of the work he's done, I can honestly state the FHIR community would have been much poorer for his absence.
Without further ado:
HAPI on FHIR has is perhaps the most widely known Java FHIR Server implementations available, HAPI HL7 V2 has been used in numerous projects to parse and integrate with HL7 Version 2 messages, and is included in one of the most widely used open source V2 integration engines (formerly known as Mirth Connect, now NextGen connect). James has also contributed to other open source efforts supporting HL7 FHIR and HL7 Version 2 messaging.
The sheer volume of commits in the projects he's led well exceeds 50 million lines of code. He's been working in the open source space for nearly a decade and a half, most of which has been supporting the work of the university hospital that employed him.
It's kind of difficult to tell a back story about him that doesn't give it completely away (and many who've used the work he's been driving already know who I'm talking about). I'm told he's an accomplished guitar player, and I also hear that his latest album of spoken word and beat poetry will be coming out soon.
I can honestly say I've used much of the open source code he's been driving forward at four different positions for three different employers, through at least eight different releases, and I swear by the quality of the work that goes into it. I'm not alone, the work has been downloaded or forked by several thousand developers all over the world.
I know that he sort of fell into this open source space a bit by accident as the person who had been driving one of the HL7 open source project moved on to greener pastures and he took up the reigns. Since then, he took the simplicity and usability of that open source project into a second one that has driven HL7 FHIR on towards greater heights. If it weren't for some of the work he's done, I can honestly state the FHIR community would have been much poorer for his absence.
Without further ado:
This certifies that
James Agnew of
Simpatico Intelligent Systems, Inc.
Simpatico Intelligent Systems, Inc.
has hereby been recognized for keeping smiles on the faces of HL7 integrators for the better part of two decades.
HAPI on FHIR has is perhaps the most widely known Java FHIR Server implementations available, HAPI HL7 V2 has been used in numerous projects to parse and integrate with HL7 Version 2 messages, and is included in one of the most widely used open source V2 integration engines (formerly known as Mirth Connect, now NextGen connect). James has also contributed to other open source efforts supporting HL7 FHIR and HL7 Version 2 messaging.
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