Raymond Duncan, MD

Ray is a neonatologist, software developer, and author with broad experience in clinical care, software development, technical publishing, and health information technology. He received a BA in Chemistry from UC Riverside and an MD from UCLA School of Medicine, and completed his pediatric residency and neonatology fellowship at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. During college, medical school, and residency, he worked as a programmer for several clinical reference labs in Southern California, writing specimen tracking, device interface, and result reporting software on the minicomputers of that era. During neonatology fellowship, he wrote many applications for the NICU ranging from on-line reference materials and calculators to TPN protocols on the earliest personal computers, and wrote several technical books and hundreds of magazine software columns for Microsoft Press, Addison Wesley, PC Magazine, Microsoft Systems Journal, Programmer’s Journal, Embedded Systems Programming, and others, as well running a small consulting firm for embedded applications. As personal computing matured and the Internet exploded, he developed multiple Mac and web-based networked applications for the neonatal intensive care unit. In 1997, when the IT department at Cedars-Sinai was reorganized with a new focus on clinical systems and personal computer, he moved from the NICU to IT full-time, and led teams in the development of many clinical applications including an enterprise CDR and web viewing system used by the entire health system. Later, he served as Chief Technology Officer (CTO) for the Cedars-Sinai Health System for seven years during the implementation of the Epic electronic medical record for the full continuum of care. Ray is currently Executive Director of Technology R&D for Cedars-Sinai working with cloud services, device integration, HIE, personal/wearable devices, and mobile applications. Ray’s R&D team is an early adopter of FHIR services for EMR integration and also acts the primary technical mentors and liaison to the healthcare IT startups in the Cedars-Sinai Accelerator. After business hours, Ray enjoys being the administrator of the web site “Neonatology on the Web,” and the moderator of the “NICU Professionals” group on Facebook.