I Just Volunteered to be a "Real Life Use Case"

During the public comment period at the end of today's HIT Standards Committee meeting (held in Washington) which I attended by phone, I volunteered to be a "real life use case". My volunteering followed my comments concerning the importance of semantic interoperability, both at the human level as well as at the machine level (computer to computer).

Ten years ago, as the Data Administrator/Consultant for the Center for Uniformity, Security and Privacy (CUSP) in the (then) Department of Health and Family Services (DHFS) I participated as a beta tester for a distributable metadata registry called MetaPro sponsored by the (then) Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA) and Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). At the time I was also the representative from DHFS to Health Level 7 (HL7).

In anticipation of what I thought would be an opportunity, but never visualizing the "amazing opportunity of an alignment that has never occured in history" I joined the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) in January, in order to participate in developing standards that will personally benefit me and many others, who are, or will be senior citizens. I already had been participating via Webex in meetings of the Health Information Technology Standards Panel (HITSP) which didn't require being an ANSI member, but given my mission, I joined in order to have a "seat at the table" in discussion of any or all standards affecting senior citizens.

My company's name is Metasteward LLC and has the following mission statement:

Metasteward LLC's mission is to be recognized as the organization of choice for consultation on defining and recommending consumer empowerment and protection standards for senior citizens.

I hope my past life experiences in all areas, as well as my current experiences in trying to make sense of and navigate all the electronic and manual systems (both beneficial and harmful) that confront me on a daily basis will cause me to be selected as a volunteer "use case". I'd also like to mention that I do not have a day job.