HOW

Six months ago I developed a “personal mission statement” to expand my focus from the DYNAMED MISSION and phrased it as:

I would like to provide the most useful information to clinicians and patients at the point of care by (1) defining the most useful information including what it contains and how it displays, (2) understanding how the information needs to be received in the "point of care" today (and tomorrow), (3) determining and contributing to how the information is produced, (4) determining and contributing to how the information is presented, disseminated and connected, (5) facilitating the relationships across people and entities to achieve this, and (6) creating a flexible and sustainable system for it

I have been active in all six domains and the interrelatedness is substantial.

In retrospect this is more of the HOW than the WHAT. It does describe the complexity of the many systems involved to fulfill the DYNAMED MISSION. And it has helped me see where common themes emerge that may condense and crystallize into a CALLING.