Duncan Weatherston

Duncan Weatherston has been an IT professional and entrepreneur for 30 years, with a multidisciplinary background in business development, systems integration and support. As Smile CDR CEO, he is responsible for overseeing the senior team and providing leadership and vision for the company. Working with his co-founder, who is co-chair of the FHIR committee at HL7 and the maintainer of HAPI—the premier open source FHIR library in Java, Duncan has built an international business with clients in Australia and Europe, as well as North and South America. His extensive career includes lead roles with organizations that revitalize the healthcare management industry. Duncan has been a key architect in the delivery of longitudinal health records for the Province of Ontario as well as the design and delivery of integrated laboratory, hospital and medication records, shared Electronic Health Record (EHR) services, and identity and security services. He was the Technical Lead for the Ontario Digital Health Drug Repository (ODHDR), a database with over billions records containing critical medication history of Ontarians. In addition to his experience in Health Systems Design, Duncan has a long history of technical service leadership, delivery and implementation stretching back to the late 1980s.