Ward Weistra
Senior Clinical Informaticist & PhD Candidate
Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolWard Weistra is a product-minded leader with 11 years of experience building FHIR tooling and interoperability solutions for healthcare and research. As Product Manager and former Product Owner at Firely, he steers Simplifier.net, Forge and Firely Terminal to help teams author, document and publish scalable FHIR implementation guides. He combines an academic background in bioinformatics and theoretical biology with hands-on product delivery, previously growing The Hyve from a small consultancy into a 40+ person open-source services firm. An active contributor to HL7’s official FHIR documentation, Ward blends technical writing, Python and Android tinkering with product strategy to keep complex standards usable. He’s known for translating clinical and research needs into developer-friendly tools that become the single source of truth for specification consumers.
11 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MSc) Molecular and Cellular Life Sciences, Master of Science (MSc) Molecular and Cellular Life Sciences at Utrecht UniversityVWO Profile Nature & Science en Nature & Health, VWO Profile Nature & Science en Nature & Health at Carolus Clusius College
Danish, English, Dutch, German, French
Stackoverflow
68reputation
10kreached
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Github Skills (10)
smart-on-fhir10
hl7-fhir10
documentation10
technical-writing10
html9
hapi-fhir6
api6
r6
read-the-docs6
hateoas6
Programming languages (21)
Github contributions (5)
HL7/fhir
Nov 2019 - Sep 2022
Official source for the HL7 FHIR Specification
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:3 reviews, 16 commits, 16 PRs in 2 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Ward primarily contributed to updating the documentation for the HL7 FHIR specification. The contributions included modifying existing documentation pages related to downloads, implementation support, and validation. They also updated links to relevant tools and resources within the documentation, reflecting a focus on maintaining and improving the information available to users of the FHIR standard. Additionally, the user merged branches and addressed issues, ensuring the documentation reflected the most up-to-date information on the specification.
hl7-fhirfhir
thehyve/transmart-android
Nov 2014 - Oct 2016
Contributions:1 release, 12 commits, 2 PRs in 1 year 11 months
kotlinandroid-clienttransmartandroid
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