RT Journal A1 Wang C T1 MEdical documentation in the electronic era JF JAMA JO JAMA YR 2012 FD November 28 VO 308 IS 20 SP 2091 OP 2092 DO 10.1001/jama.2012.14849 UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.2012.14849 AB Patient-centered care (PCC) has been embraced by many professional societies. For example, it has been included by the Institute of Medicine as 1 of the 6 goals of quality improvement.1 One aspect of PCC that is being increasingly considered is allowing patients greater access to their medical records.2 However, the adoption of personalized health records (PHRs) has been modest at best.3 There are many challenges to be addressed in PHRs, including the bidirectional flow of data from the PHRs kept by patients to the electronic medical records kept by health care institutions.3