While we read about more traction with electronic medical records and plans for incentivizing physicians, along with the consequent debate around sharing these records with the patient population http://www.healthdatamanagement.com/news/legislation27566-1.html we need to enlist and educate both sides on how to make this dialogue work.  Why not start by making the existing PHR ecosystem better integrate with the federal EHR initiatives and leverage the “early adopter” patient population to evangelize and educate others to take responsibility for partnering with their physician more actively around electronic records? Is there a call to action for the PHR providers and the patient population to do their part?