Contributing to the specifications
Key resources and guidelines to contribute
As mentioned in the governance section, hcx-specifications are fundamental to the success of the envisioned claims network. Specifications need to create consensus amongst a broad base of health system stakeholders to ensure that they can act as this common foundation. Current specifications are a result of collaborative effort from many committed volunteers.
We look forward to further strengthening the collaboration with border participation. Sections below provide the key resources and mechanisms to contribute to the specifications.
Key resources for this version (v0.7.1) are available as follows:
Please use the github discussion forum to ask questions, make suggestions, and raise enhancement requests. You can also participate in the existing discussion by appropriately commenting on the discussions of your interest.
Issues can be raised to bring attention to any shortcoming in the specifications ( e.g. API specifications, Domain Data specifications - eObjects, Documents, Value Sets, Implementation Guide etc.) using one of the following mechanisms:
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- 2.If unsure about the issue, it can be raised as a discussion with the community and can be converted to an issue on confirmation.
We aim to make hcx-specifications one of the best open community projects with your help. In order to achieve this, we expect the participants to follow GitHub's community Guidelines and adhere to the GitHub Community Forum Code of Conduct while participating in the forum.
If for some reason, you cannot raise issues using github, you can also send them via email to [email protected].
However, to get the best assistance from the community, get timely responses and benefit everyone from the observations, we strongly encourage everyone to use the github forum. Please use these instructions to sign up for a free github account, if you dont already have one. You can then write to us at [email protected] with your github id to include you as a part of the github community for the hcx-specifications.
This specification document can also be downloaded as a PDF for offline consumption. Instructions to download specifications as a PDF are available here.