Healthcare settings involve complex sociotechnical challenges, accentuated by rapidly expanding medical knowledge and technological developments. This entails a need for the professionals to continually seek information to update their skills and knowledge to solve problems in daily clinical practice while at the same time facing an increasingly fragmented health information environment. This research in progress paper addresses the real-life problem of physicians’ information seeking activities before, during and after a patient visit. The anticipated contribution is a set of design principles that a system for information seeking through these three phases should support.