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Our name and the FHIR® trademark

The name FHIR-Frog is approved by HL7

HL7 International has approved FHIRFrog's application to use the FHIR® trademark in the product name FHIR-Frog (also written FHIRFrog and FHIR Frog). Approval was confirmed on 12 October 2026, under HL7's product licence for names that include "FHIR".

Required notice

FHIR® is the registered trademark of HL7 and is used with the permission of HL7. Use of the FHIR trademark does not constitute endorsement of the application by HL7.

This notice appears in the footer of every page of this site and in the README of the FHIR-Frog source repository.

What this means

  • The name is settled. FHIR-Frog is approved as the name of this open-source project, so nothing about it needs to change in your tooling, build files, packages or documentation.
  • HL7 owns the FHIR® trademark. We use it with HL7's permission, and we follow HL7's FHIR Trademark Policy.
  • Approval of the name is not an endorsement. HL7 has permitted the name; it has not endorsed FHIR-Frog. FHIR-Frog is not an HL7 product, and its test results are not an HL7 certification.

Where the name comes from

FHIR Frog is a triple allusion:

  • FHIR®: the Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources standard, which the tool tests.
  • The JUnit frog: the iconic mascot of the testing framework FHIR-Frog extends.
  • Australian resilience: the frogs that survive bushfires by burrowing underground and emerging when conditions improve.

The project began as a testing framework at CSIRO's Australian e-Health Research Centre (AEHRC) and continues as the independent open-source project FHIRFrog.

Questions

If you have a question about the name or how to refer to it, please open an issue on the source repository.